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Acer Travelmate 5710 SATA

post #1 of 4
8/27/07 at 10:29am
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Hi all,
I just got a 5710 with WinVista installed. I am trying to install win xp but there's a problem recognizing the sata disk on xp setup. From Acer official download page I got the F6 SATA HDD-Floppy disk driver, I generated the fdd driver disk, I installed it with F6 from the initila win xp screen but I still have problem recognizing the disk from the system.
I tried to install win xp from a usb hdd but it simply does not boot at all.
Any ideas ???
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post #2 of 4
8/28/07 at 11:48pm
hi digg.
I still have the same problem I want to remove vista and install XP ,did you had sucess with installing XP?
Rodrigo
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post #3 of 4
8/29/07 at 4:11am
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Well, yes but it took me 3 days to find it.
The proper sata driver to recognise the disk is the ICH7 (Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH7DH). After i found this one I made a diskette but I still had problems; while copying the system files it was asking for the diskette but it could not recognise the fdd. So I found the procedure making a win xp boot cd with the above drivers included in it.
After installing win xp all driver files from acer download page are ok but all applications are for vista and do not run to xp. Anyway I have to find these apps from another model maybe from the aspire series.
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post #4 of 4
8/30/07 at 12:29am
Hi Digg
I download the driver from Intel page (f6flp32.exe), extracted the files to a floppy and copy that to a CD I followed instructions on link http://www.maximumpc.com/article/How...ion?page=0%2C2

but I still can't load XP, did I download the right driver?
Any help you could give I will apreciate
Thanks!
Rodrigo
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