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    Acer Aspire 9300 Bios update

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dragonz, Mar 19, 2008.

  1. dragonz

    dragonz Newbie

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    Hey all,

    I'm wondering what the latest bios is that I can safely apply to an Acer Aspire 9300 running WinXP Pro SP2.


    I see 1.20 on the Acer site (im currently at 1.15), but it only mentions it being for Vista. Can this bios work with XP as well?

    I'm trying to fix an audio stuttering / slowdown problem that seemed to manifest itself after wiping Vista and moving back to XP SP2

    THanks in advance for any advice.
     
    dragonz, Mar 19, 2008
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  2. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    Acer is no longer supporting anything for XP and all new drivers and bios files are placed in the VISTA section. that being said i've been upgrading my Aspire 5315's bios every time they post an update even though i'm using XP and not vista...

    in my oppinion, acer is just trying to scare us all into using Vista. I have had no problems using the bios files from the vista section on my XP machine. I wish i could be more technical but BIOS deals with BASIC LOW LEVEL calls between the OS and your laptop's hardware. It is my oppinion that there is not any real changes in that LOW LEVEL communication when compairing VISTA and XP.... all the changes are of a higher level than the BIOS deals with.

    just my personal oppinion and experience,

    bigozone
     
    bigozone, Mar 23, 2008
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  3. ShadowMarlo

    ShadowMarlo Newbie

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    I think the Broadcom Wireless N is causing that problem. A lot of people complaining about the audio stuttering/slowdown include HP users. I have Lenovo with the same problem with Broadcom. My solution is just turned off my wireless network everytime I listen to music. My only problem is, watching flash videos or listening stream media online.
     
    ShadowMarlo, Apr 29, 2008
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  4. jeffqmc

    jeffqmc Newbie

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    Version 1.20 will work with your notebook. with Xp.. been there, done that !.. ;)
     
    jeffqmc, Nov 17, 2008
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