Disaster!!

Ok.. so I have an Acer Aspire 5520 laptop with 320gb hd space .. 8600m gs video card ... 4gb ram... Vista 32-bit oem.. etc.

The problem is that I've just accidentaly deleted my whole OS.
I booted with my Vista 64-bit disc so I could format one of my drives, but I stupidly formatted the wrong one. (the one with my OS)

So now I just installed Vista 64-bit on it, so I could at least do something with my laptop (watch dvds etc.), but I can't get the internet to work anymore because of all the important stuff that got deleted.

What I was using was some public WLAN.

Now it complains that a network adapter doesn't exist.. or something like that. I don't even know what that is.

Is there any way I can fix this myself? I just need to get my internet to work again.

 

Hi bud....don't panic

Just go somewhere where u can access the internet and download the drivers for your laptop from the Acer website.
Then go to your device manager in and choose to manually update the driver of the device with a questionmark after it.

 

I've tried to get the drivers here: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5520.html but the site doesn't seem to work properly, and I don't know what exactly I have to download.

 

Try to download both the Atheros WLAN driver and the Broadcom WLAN driver. U could have either one of these network adapters.

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5520.html


Be sure that u set the menu on 64bit drivers as you have Vista 64 installed
If you have vista 64 SP1 go to the second group of drop down menu's (under Vista SP1)

 

Can't download anything from there, it doesn't work.

 

Errrr...maybe your browser is blocking the download? Works fine here

 

otherwise just type in the names of those drivers in google and download from somewhere else

 

Are those the only 2 drivers, and can they be different from what country you are from?

 

yes they are the only two for network and no...they should be the same for all countries

 

Disaster? Disaster is when you flash your BIOS and the procedure fails. That's disaster!

 

Lol..

I can download them now.. I'll try soon.

 

Works now, thanks!

It was the Atheros driver that was needed.

Now I just need to start installing tons of Windows updates, 38 of them.

 

Your very welcome! The 38 updates are probably not essential ones? just the 38 different languages u can install i hope. Good luck!

 

Nah.. there's actually a lot of important ones.

Done downloading now, took 30 minutes.
Now it still needs to install.