5672 xphome to xppro HELP.

Hey guys i just reformated my 5672 home edition with my own copy of xp pro. Now that i have done that i cannot install any of the driers taht i have found from the website. They show up as zip but when i open them some of them are not executable. should i follow a certain order when installing them? please help.

 

while installing the chipset driver i get this message:

the file usbehci.sys' on (unknown) is needed.

and it cancels the installation..ugh!

 

Try 7-Zip.

 

Read these threads:

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=143068

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=150867

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=51485

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=146455

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=150778

I have been planning on doing this myself so I have been researching the topic.

The drivers that have no install executable are probably installed by going to the device manager in control panel, selecting the flagged devices that were detected but did not have drivers and then updating the driver through device manager using the "Have Disc" option and browsing to wherever you unzipped the drivers.

Let me know how you make out as I will be doing this soon.

 

A few more relevent threads:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=49511
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=51914&page=2
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=52277

 

i think i am screwed, i went ahead and reinstalled windows xp pro from home edition thinking that it will work properlly but it doesnt. some of the drivers from the website work and some do not. now my computer is sitting there doing nothing, i am so lost.

 

Do not despair joystick what you have attempted many have already completed successfully. Read through those posts for helpful hints.

One person in those posts above even mentioned that he had to do it twice to get everything to work correctly.

 

I found this step by step procedure on this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=37507&page=12#112

He did it on the same machine as you have.

Now I got sick of the pc being filled with the standard acer **** (i had a hellulva time getting stuff off the missus' ferrari 3400), so I went ahead and did a clean install of XP Pro.

NOTE: This is for the Compusa version, I believe the european version comes with a tv tuner and remote.

Pre-install:
--D/L'ed all of the drivers onto D:\temp and extracted them. It took about an hour for me to grab every single one of the drivers.

Panam Site:
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/for...d=3394#results
European Site:
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers...k/as_5670.html

--Formated the HD to NTFS using the windows cd. This was a big deal for me, FAT32 is great and fast for smaller sized HD's, but with a 50gig partition full of music and video, NTFS is the king. I did a clean format of C: with the SLOW format of NTFS (its executes chkdsk which is decent for finding and HD weaknesses)

Install Process:
--Installed windows xp pro onto C:
--Enabled IR
--Installed the following drivers:
1. Intel Chipset
2. ATI VGA Driver
3. Intel wireless (I got this from the Acer European site)
4. Conexant Audio drivers
5. Conexant Modem drivers
6. Broadcom 5789E LAN drivers
7. Bluetooth drivers (I got this from the Acer PanAm site)
8. CCD Drivers (webcam)
9. FIR (Fast IR, the CIR is for the remote which we don't have )
10. Touchpad drivers
11. 6in1 Card Reader
12. Acer ePower mgmt (VERY IMPORTANT, this puppy is much better than the default windows power mgmt).
13. Acer Launch manager (For the quick launch buttons in the top right hand corners and media buttons on the left side)
--Installed the following OPTIONAL software
1. Acer Empowering Framework (necessary for everything below)
2. Acer ePresentation (easy to use tool for setting up on projectors)
3. Acer GridVista (multi-screen utility)
4. Acer eSettings

Post-install:
--Firefox FTW!

 

You could just put Home back on there. Unless you have a specific need there is no practical benefit to Pro.

 

thanks so much for the help man, ill be reading for the next couple of days.. to see what i can do to fix this thing. i am reformating the thing with xp pro right now then setting it there. until i know what to do with the drivers and all.

 

well the problem is i left my burnned back up disc at home in california, i will be in oregon for about 3 months... so there is no turning back..lol.

 

i have tried installing the chipset first.. but everytime i would get an error..

 

Have you tried the drivers from the eoropean site mentioned above?

I recall one poster saying he had better luck with those. He thought they were more up to date.

They have chipset driver 7.2.2.1006 - is that the same one you are using?

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5620_5670.html

 

unfortunately yes thats the same exact one, i used that list to dl the drivers.. the same exact euro site.. so frustrated.

 

alright well i tried reinstalling the chipset and i am stil getting this message.. missing usbehci.sys' and it is asking for me to browse my system to find it.. i am a bit confused... i do not know why they are not allowing the install.

 

alright well this might save a buncha lives... but i googled it and this is what i found

http://www.computing.net/drivers/wwwboard/forum/3931.html


so then i limewired it and got the file..now the usbehci found and my intel chipset is ready to go...next step..lol

but now i run into anther problem... the modem will not install..i dont understand...and the broad com does not have a setup file..what is the problem with this.

 

How old is your XP Pro version?

Why not get a newer version from one of the many sources cough... bittorrent cough cough....

 

After you first boot up from a fresh install try running "Autopatcher" to bring your installation up to date and then run the windows update several times to make sure you got everything current. I would do this before trying to install any drivers.

http://www.autopatcher.com/

 

alright well my computer is up and running with xp home though. I installed xphome sp2 and used the cd key on the bottom of my lappt. my computer is running great now. Before doing the fresh install of xp home i had well below 250 on 3dmark06... now i have 850... with 1 gb or ram. I am very happy with the results..my lan is still not installed though other than that this computer is now awesome. Before i got 500 on pc mark now i have 1379..so happy.