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    Acer gemstone blue aspire 8920g question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by rayyan123, Dec 5, 2008.

  1. rayyan123

    rayyan123 Newbie

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    hi.i have a acer aspire 8920g that i got 3 months ago and i have vista 64bit installed in it.i want to change it to xp or even vista 32 because i do not like vista 64 but i think drivers will be an issue since this thing has a driver installed for everything.is there going to be a problem with the drivers?and if so can i find all the main drivers somewhere for it?because i have googled several times and could not find drivers for it.can anyone please help me with this problem?thank you my friends. :D
     
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    You should be able to find vista 32bit drivers on the acer website, I've had a quick look and they also have some xp drivers:

    http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_8920G.html

    For the XP drivers not there, your best option is to go to the manufacturer of the device's website to download the drivers.

    Edit: If you have any issues with any drivers, locating them, post back here, and i'm sure we'll be able to help locate them somewhere.
     
  3. tom_baker

    tom_baker Notebook Guru

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    I second bangert's advice here - occasionally there will be one or two drivers missing from Acer (or any OEM)'s website, so just go to the maker of that particular device.

    For example, the Alps website if you had an Alps touchpad.
     
  4. rayyan123

    rayyan123 Newbie

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    ohh wow soo theyy have most of the drivers for 32 and 62 bit for xp and vista?that is sweet.this is the reason why i havnt converted my computer to 62 xp yet.i was scared that if i do i wont be able to work the cinedash thing or the hdmi port,graphic card!
     
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    I think the drivers on the site will be for vista 32 and 64bit but only xp 32bit.

    I would find out to see if these drivers support xp 64bit as there are issues with driver support for this version of xp.
     
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    thankss!!b.t.w on the website it has a few drivers.what are the important ones we need? like the cinedash,mouse and keyboard,sound graphic card and what else can there be?
     
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    Chipset, Wireless card, webcam, card reader, LAN, Bluetooth, infrared port, fingerprint reader??,

    These are what you would need on top of what you said.
     
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    rayyan123 Newbie

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    thanks a lot!
     
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    hey guys so i finally downgraded to vista 32 bit so i got a couple of questions.

    so for the graphics cads all i downloaded was the VGA_nVidia_9EGE 32 BIT.as i am gussing this is the only one u have to install and is the latest one for 32 bit since it is a 9 and the rest are 8

    for the webcam i installed the web cam utility driver but when i run the acer crytal eye cam which it installed it says webcam not found.

    the sound works fine wth the driver and so does the cine dash on the side

    the modem drivers it have which are a lot of them, i do not no weather to install it or not.
     
  10. rayyan123

    rayyan123 Newbie

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    aanyone?
    i cant get the microphone and the webcam to work