The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Driver install order for Aspire 5100 with XP

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by NocturnalLunacy, Oct 29, 2010.

  1. NocturnalLunacy

    NocturnalLunacy Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    10
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have an Aspire 5100 and I am using a bootable flash drive for the C: drive cuz as we all know, the 5100's seem to have a problem with not wanting to read the HDD cuz the solder points fail. Anyway I am going to install XP Pro x32 on the Aspire and I can't find any documentation on the Acer site or anywhere that has the order of driver installation. I know for most manufacturers the driver installation order for new OS installs is important but I don't see that Acer cares. Is this because they're system doesn't require a specific order? Anyone have any suggestions.
     
    NocturnalLunacy, Oct 29, 2010
    #1
  2. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,729
    Messages:
    8,722
    Likes Received:
    2,231
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Order is not important. The only thing you might wanna consider is installing networking drivers (and Launch Manager if you need Wi-Fi) in the beginning so you could use Windows Update- that may get you some missing drivers right away.
     
    downloads, Oct 29, 2010
    #2