6920-6621 64 bit windows vista upgrade

Hello everybody. I was just curious if anybody has attempted to upgrade their 6920 models to 64 bit. What I'm looking for specifically is if the cinedash side controls will work seamlessly with 64 bit. From what I can tell, all the other hardware and drivers will be compatible no problem. If anyone has any info it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

i've not seen vista 64 bit drivers for the Cinedash yet.... you may have to wait a bit longer before Acer gets that driver all ironed out

bigO

 

That's what I was scared of. I searched and searched and came up with nothing so I would tend to believe that to be true. Oh well, hopefully with time they come through. Thanks for the reply!

 

i'm sure they will in time.... but how long is the 20K question

 

uhm, on the ftp site of the european acer site for the 6920 i noticed that most drivers have 32bit and 64bit drivers alongside with them which includes the launch manager which is also in charge of the cine-dash drivers. i'm not 100% sure about that since i havent really tried installing the 64bit version of windows so please correct me if i'm wrong. plus i noticed that when i didnt install acer arcade when i did a clean install of vista 32, when i click the acer arcade key on cinedash, it opened windows media center instead. sadly the back button doesnt want to work
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_6920G/vista/Drivers/

 

CineDash works perfectly on Vista 64 bit, only driver for 64 bit that is not currently available from the acer support site is for the modem. Empowering technology works except eRecovery, I kept the original acer installation & installed 64 bit on the second Hard drive, so have a dual boot system. I uninstalled Edatasecurity as it it stops Dreamweaver working. This is on Aspire 8920G-934G64Bn, presumably the 6920 is the same.

 

@ prof jacko: where did you get the 64 bit version of cinedash? Can I just launch it from my recovery discs or is it somewhere in acer support?

 

yes, its included in the recovery disc (hint: cinedash controls are handled by the launch manager dritek or something)

the only 64bit drivers not included in recovery disc are wifi, graphics card and modem so download these from the ftp site i gave you in earlier post before proceeding)

 

So I took the dive and upgraded...it worked great thanks to all of your help! The only issue is that I still have one unknown device which is the modem. Who really uses those things nowadays anyways! Thanks much for all of your help!

 

i'd like to install a 64-bit version of Ultima on my 6920-6422 but Microsoft says that i can't even upgrade with the OEM 32-bit version and must purchase new. I have a retail box Ultimate with a 64-bit disk but i don't suppose the OEM product key will get me on the air with 64bits? Kinda sucks to have get a 64bit processor and find out you have no options under $300 to get 64bit operating system!

 

Your 32-bit OEM key will work.

 

Yes, thanks, it worked...i'm running dual boot and still getting everything going (forgot where the empowering technology programs come from?). But already there is no change on the WEI index (5.4 cpu, 5.1 calculations, etc.) and, of course, the slow 4.4 on the Nvidia 9500.

Nice to know it works in 64 bit (kinda works, anyway) but looks like it's pretty well optimized at the 32bit level. Maybe I'll just keep the 64bit around to run Premiere or Photoshop and stay with the factory stuff..thanks for your help..