Acer Aspire 7535 - 5415 Drivers

Hi,

I recently bought an acer aspire 7535 - 5415. Specifications can be found here:

It came preinstalled with Windows 7 but I formatted it and installed Windows XP for which drivers are available on acer's website.

Now I am having problems finding drivers for the wireless device and ethernet on it. I have tried the various drivers available online including acer's website but none of them seem to work so I think I am doing something wrong. I just run the installer for the drivers but that doesnt make any difference. Currently in device manager, two devices show up with a question mark along them:
1. Ethernet Controller
2. Network Controller

Installing different drivers makes no difference, including the ones posted on acer's website. So I dont know if I am doing something wrong or if the drivers are faulty. Can someone point me to the proper drivers or the proper procedure for installing the network controllers I need.

Thanks for your help.

 

Use Windows Device Manager to review the properties of each unknown device. Go to the Properties tab, select Details and then select Hardware IDs from the drop-down list. Copy the Vendor ID and Device ID for each device, and report them here. They'll look something like this:

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4229&SUBSYS_11008086&REV_61

Search Google using the VEN and DEV values separated with a colon like this:

8086:4229

and you should get a good description of what the devices really are.

 

Thank you for your useful advice. Much better than the acer techs I talked to

Anyways, through this method I managed to get the wireless driver working and I even typed this from the notebook

But I still sometimes need ethernet on my notebook and was not able to get that working (couldnt find the driver by googling the numbers for REV and DEV). Here is the Device Instance ID (no Vendor ID in drop down list):

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1698&SUBSYS_02071025&REV_10\4&11F8B95B&0&0020


Thank you for your help.

 

Can you try connecting to Windows Update.
Select include optional updates see if it detect the right driver
If I am not wrong it is a broadcom NetXtreme Lan
Also you should really use Windows 7
AMD run better on Windows Vista and 7, for Xp you have to install dual core optimizer and AMD Processor Driver to get quiet and cool working, these are included by default in Windows 7/vista

 

Thank you for your help. The BroadCom driver worked so thanks.

For the whole AMD on windows 7 thing, yeah I know. I already have dual core optimizer but didnt know we needed to have drivers so thanks for that bit of information. I mainly use XP because I wanna get a few more frames in the games I play and since this laptop is pretty mid range, every frame helps.