Dr_Deathweed
Well-Known Member
Well I think i have gone and screwed the pooch this time. My wife won a new laptop (an Acer Aspire 5315) a few weeks ago, which was perfect since our old laptop decided to bite the big one right before her midterms. After a couple weeks of Vista, I decided that was not going to cut it and I was going to go back to good ole XP.
That in itself was a mess. I ended up zeroing the HD and had to change the settings in BIOS from SATA to IDE (which i have no idea what that is, I just read it on the internet somewhere... ) After instilation, I updated windows with service pack 3 and all that jazz, got the Intel chipset drivers and downlaoded some of the acer drivers off of thier site. My
problem now is I cant 1)use anything but the standatd keyboard keys, so all the other buttons on here do not respond, and 2) it will not recognise my wireless card. I have tried that Arthos and Broadcom wireless drivers, but to no avail. I did get the ethernet card to work, so that is what I am connected with now. I have this site: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com for some drivers, but they are all vista so I don't know if they will work or not.
I have also installed quite a few drivers on here trying to get some that would work, so will that cause problems in and of itself? If so, I don't know everything I have put on here so i may have to start over and just install what works.
Well, it is obvious that I am just rambling now because I have no idea what I am doing at this point If anyone has any sugestions, i would be MORE that happy to follow any advice you have.
That in itself was a mess. I ended up zeroing the HD and had to change the settings in BIOS from SATA to IDE (which i have no idea what that is, I just read it on the internet somewhere... ) After instilation, I updated windows with service pack 3 and all that jazz, got the Intel chipset drivers and downlaoded some of the acer drivers off of thier site. My
problem now is I cant 1)use anything but the standatd keyboard keys, so all the other buttons on here do not respond, and 2) it will not recognise my wireless card. I have tried that Arthos and Broadcom wireless drivers, but to no avail. I did get the ethernet card to work, so that is what I am connected with now. I have this site: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com for some drivers, but they are all vista so I don't know if they will work or not.
I have also installed quite a few drivers on here trying to get some that would work, so will that cause problems in and of itself? If so, I don't know everything I have put on here so i may have to start over and just install what works.
Well, it is obvious that I am just rambling now because I have no idea what I am doing at this point If anyone has any sugestions, i would be MORE that happy to follow any advice you have.