Drivers for Acer Aspire/Win 7/32 bit

When I go to the Acer site for Canada I notice that my laptop, Acer Aspire/5100/32 Bit has no Windows 7 support. I had a BSOD today that was due to VGA trouble so I went to the Device Manager and tried to update my graphics driver. It actually downgraded it to something previous to the one I had installed. All the drivers on the Acer site are for Windows Vista. There is no support for my laptop/Win 7/HP. Where in the heck am I supposed to get drivers for this model w/o Win 7 support. Acer really hasn't kept up too well if this is happening to other models. Could someone please guide me to the proper place to get drivers for my Laptop/Win 7.

 

Hi,

this laptop is old enough to be supported by Windows7 built-in drivers.
(It is btw perfectly normal that computer manufacturers don't support operating systems the computer was not factory equipped with.)

The other option is to find out what components are used in your individual computer and get newer drivers from the component manufacturers.

Also, I guess that Vista drivers should work also.

Michael

 

I've went to the Acer site. They have nothing listed for my computer as far as Win 7. Everything is for Vista and yes they do work, but they're as old as 2008 and to me graphics cards get updated a little more than every 2-3 years. Acer also has Win 7 support for a lot of Notebooks, just not mine. I guess they're telling me to buy a new laptop if I want 7 support or deal with the Vista drivers, which are old.

 

I don't like to be negative, but I asked here if anyone had an Acer 5102 (= 5100) working perfectly on Windows 7 and got no replies at all.

My 5102 came with XP Media Center Edition and had a free upgrade to Vista. I don't really expect Acer to keep updating drivers on every whim of Microsoft, so I accept that there will be no Win7 drivers provided by Acer. It may, of course be possible that the individual components inside the machine will have Win 7 drivers provided by their manufacturers.

I only wanted to get my old 5102 up and running in Win 7 to confirm that there is a serious audio bug in Win 7 on AMD processors, but as I can't find anyone running this, I've given up.

At the moment here Vista is better than Win 7 on my Aspire 5536G, and XP MCE had serious audio problems. Are you sure that you need to change from Vista?

 

Sorry it took so long to write this, but I had given up on this thread a while back and just happened to be browsing by and caught your post. Acer does support a lot of Notebooks for drivers. They don't however support mine for Windows 7. Everything they list for my Acer 5100-5300 is for Vista, but most of the Vista drivers also work for Windows 7. To me it just gets confusing sometimes going to the Acer site for Win 7 support. I've got this driver update program,(Driver Genius) that seems to update my laptop pretty well so far.
You mention having audio issues with Win 7. What are they? I haven't had any problems whatsoever with the audio in Win 7. I have HD Audio drivers installed and analog 2 channel stereo and have had nary a problem at all. When I first had Vista a couple years ago there was some audio issues because of some driver that I just can't think of right now. I think t was a storage driver 4379 that conflicted when you upgraded the driver by update. I think the workaround was to hide the update and that solved the issue. Other than that I've never had any issues with Win 7 or Vista when I ran that.