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The Drivers Acer Aspire 6930

post #1 of 5
4/3/09 at 1:32pm
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Hello guys..I've just bought an Acer Aspire 6930 laptop and I want to re-tweak the whole system again like installing new windows etc etc...so should I care about the drivers? I mean sound driver will be found automaticly and I can download display driver but what about the other drivers like net,webcam, etc etc?? where can I find those???
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post #2 of 5
4/3/09 at 3:09pm
did you check Acer's site?
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post #3 of 5
4/4/09 at 1:26am
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Ya I did but everything there is only for vista but not for Xp but as I'm downgrading my os to Xp sp3 I need all available drivers for XP...

What should I do??
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post #4 of 5
4/4/09 at 4:31am
Moving to Acer Peer-to-Peer

cheers ...
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post #5 of 5
4/4/09 at 8:29am
Before you do anything ie format HDD, go to your device manager and get a list of hardware components that your laptop uses or a list of drivers. If you cannot find the XP drivers on any acer site ie acer europe, acer canada, acer usa etc, then you will have to go to the hardware manufacturers site and find each one.
The problem is, that special functions like media keys, hotkeys etc may not work after, unless you can find the XP utility for these (or one that works)
Suggestion would be to dual boot. Find a partitioning program that will allow you to go into your HDD and add another partition for XP.
Thisway, you will have a functioning OS (Vista) until you find all the drivers/utilities for XP.
I would also suggest before you do anything, that you make a set of Recovery DVDs using the ERecovery program. You never know if you might need them
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