Just bought an Acer 5735-4624 and want to put XP on it.

Hey everyone!

I'm new here and I've been looking all day for the help I need-so I thought I'd ask all of you good folks.

I just bought a new Acer 5735-4624 aspire model. It comes with Vista and of course I'm looking to move back to Xp. Only thing is I cant find any support drivers anywhere. Even on the Acer site--the friggin model is not even listed. I know it's new and all---but!??!

I have an e-mail in to Acer support but I already know about their famous support woes.

Anyone have an idea so I can move to little ol' XP?

Any drivers perhaps from other models that might be compatiable?

Thanks in advance everyone!!

matt

 

im in the same boat

I want to buy one, but I need xp drivers

 

Same here. someone please post a thread on the rollback procedure for this lappy in a new thread.

 

Same here..... Why doesnt acer have drivers for XP?????????

 

When you're considering to buy a NEW laptop model, make sense that only a few people will have it. Have some patience.
Look at the 5735 specs and try to find the drivers yourself. If you can't/don't want to do it list me the specs for a particular 5735 model and I'll try to dig up some drivers.

@clandom Company policy. ACER doesn't provide drivers for XP for their models probably since the 1st quarter of 2007. They ship all their new models with Vista. And it also make sense, Microsoft doesn't sell Windows XP anymore.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cjwobthzzry/acer5735.rar
you can thank "Crushyou" of slickdeals for these.

That is a set of Drivers for XP for the Aspire 5735-4624, I baught one of these laptops also. You have to use a program called "nLite" to add some of the drivers to the XP files and burn a disk yourself. I am having problems formatting vista, I tried just putting the XP disk in and boot from CD but I eventually get a blue screen while loading it :O, I think I have to get Vista off the HD first so If some of you guys could help me out that would be cool. My msn is "[email protected]"

Hope this helps and that some of you can help me back lol

 

Hey guys, I picked up one of these units Sunday morning. Last year it was a gateway that was on sale for $399 with vista. The people on this forum put together all the goodies in a few weeks for the XP change over. As for this unit and trying to format drives and such, the unit has a serial drive. Any XP disk you have laying around won't have a driver for the hard drive. There is good news. I used the program ( nlite ) as mentioned above, and it works great. I was revamping another lap top for a friend with the same type of drive. I located another disk that had the Vista OS on it and I took A chance that the vista driver would work within the XP operating system and it did. I just located the drivers folder on the Vista disk, and dragged the contents on to an area where the ( nlite ) software could find it. i finished the process telling the nlite program to create a bootable image to burn to a cd. The best thing I did was to use some old RW cd's I had laying around to make sure I got it right. No disk wasted on the nlite process if I messed up. The Vista drivers worked from within the XP disk that nlite made. It booted saw the drive, formatted and everything. Now as far as info form Acer on the new laptop, I talked to a tech this morning at Acer, he could not find the model on his desk either! My model and serial didn't exist! He said this was because the units were just presented, and suggest I check the website over the next few weeks. After then they may have the site updated to show the new models. He did direct me to the start menu to a search area and told me to type in " Guide " after that I got a PDF file with very generic user information about the unit. VERY GENERIC! My complaint as of today aside from Vista is the absence of an updated audio driver from Realtek that will allow you to record from the ( MIXER ) so far just a Mic option. Good luck everybody.

 

Trace:

I had the same problem. I was able to resolve it by going into the BIOS and setting the SATA controller to IDE mode.

 

i created 2 XP discs, one with the vista drivers and one with the XP drivers that were posted here. Neither worked even after changing the SATA/IDE setting in the BIOS. what the heck?

edit: ok silly me. i changed the bios setting then tried my original xp sp2 disc and it worked. i think i messed up when i selected the intel ich9 as a textmode driver instead of a normal PNP driver. holy crap this thing is fast with xp. and i have 1.5gb ram free!

 

I have successfully installed windows xp home edition with sp3 and all of the drivers. If you need help please feel free to aim me at h4xedbyniggy or my windows live messenger/msn at [email protected]

Best wishes to everyone installing this, o and by the way i also have all of the drivers that you need so just feel free to message me on one of my messengers and i will gladly give them to you.

 

I am also in need for XP changeover on my Acer 5734-4624 and I would appreciate if anyone can provide me with the Vista drivers. I have tried contacting somebody in this forum but was not able to reply. My email is [email protected], I would appreciate it very much.

 

If you are changing to XP, why do you need the Vista drivers?

 

Drivers on xp will not work on my new acer 5735. I need the vista drivers to incorporate in xp using nlite software just like what they are saying in this forum. Maybe you know something I don't. Please advise.

 

What's wrong with the drivers that Trace posted earlier in this thread? Others say they worked for them.

 

May be this is a silly question but I need to know.

My Cousin in US has purchased Acer 5735-4624 laptop and had sent it to me in India thru some relatives and it was purchased at the BestBuy RetailStore. My question is iam unable to find any Acer Drivers CD.

I assume by default you get a CD with the relevant Drivers, Have you people got this CD when you purchased this Laptop ?

I need to have the drivers in case of any emergency so that i dont need to run around when time comes.

Any reply is appreciated.

 

If you open your Acer eRecovery Management software and select the "burn disc" option at the bottom of the window, it will give you the option to create various recovery discs. One of those discs is the "driver and application" backup disc". And no, Acer does not give you any recovery discs anymore. You have to burn your own or buy them from the Acer website.

 

Ah, Thanks for the reply. I was not aware of this.

 

I got a Acer 5735-4624 laptop from bestbuy through a friend and presently it is in India.

I had 3 questions:

1) The specs say it is 160gb. I just see C: and D: drive both of 69.6gb. Where is the other 20gb?

2) The CD/DVD drive spins very faster (tried with different CD's) causing a lot of vibration. Is this same for everyone?

3) I just opened the laptop first time copied a movie file to D: drive and tried playing it through media player. I get this message "Systaem is low on memory, try closing other aaplications"

I have not opened any other applocation why do I get this message?

-Thanks in Advance
Shashi

 

The rest of the hard drive is used by a hidden recovery partition. This allows you to wipe Vista and reinstall quickly by pressing a few keys after powering on the laptop. You can delete this and resize the other partition(s) to use the entire drive, but before doing so you should use the Acer eRecovery software to burn a set of recovery DVDs.

 

1. As said in previous post, the missing 20gb will be the hidden recovery partition and because the drive manufacturers specify in decimal and the computers in Binary. This link will explain better: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc...mNoX3RleHQ9ZHJpdmUgc2l6ZQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1 Be very cautious about deleting the hidden recovery partition, if you need to re-install your O/S and you lose or damage your recovery disks, you could be in for a tough time!!!!

2. My CD/DVD drive makes noise when playing burning, fairly loud, but doesn't vibrate a lot, maybe something to look into.

3. How much memory do you have, when playing your movie and the error comes up, press Ctrl + ALT + Del, start task manager, go to processes, then hit the memory column to sort the processes, what processes are eating your memory????

 

The movie file is about 700mb and when the error comes up, Ctrl + ALT + Del
memory column shows some 770mb. I have a 2gb ddr2 ram machine

 

I have also successfully installed Windows xp, and all the drivers with exception of one: Intel graphic driver, every time I install it the screen goes black but the windows still operate, I can not go to display settings because I do not have external monitor , if there is someone else who has the same problem or someone know how to solve this already please let us all know.

here is the exact model name I have if it helps; Acer Aspire 5735-4624

 

Hey everyone,

Informative thread...unfortunately, I didn't read it before I formatted my 5735-4774 (with Vista Ultimate). I never did the backup and realized they dont give you CD's. :/ Now they do have vista drivers for the 5730z which I am using from their site, and it SEEMS to work. But my ask, is that somebody who remembered to do the "backup" of the drivers with the pre-isntalled Acer stuff, if you can ISO it and put it up somewhere, it would be AWESOME.

email: [email protected] if you can help out!!

edit: The laptop used to have multi-touch by default, but the synaptics driver I installed doesn't seem to have it enabled :/

 

I suggest you go to the acer website and buy the erecovery CD's.

http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/webpage.cfm?siteid=7293&areaid=7&website=AcerPanAm.com/us

 

Fair enough. So I ordered and recieved the discs. Now it looks like the discs can't be used as independent driver CD's. You have to use the recovery tool to reload the entire Acer factory image? Is there a way for me to use these discs for JUST the drivers that I need on my Vista install?

 

Not that I am aware of. However, once you install the factory default image of your system, you will find a directory on your C: drive called DRV that has the drivers for your system, both 32 and 64 bit. Back that up to a flash drive and you should be good to go with a clean install.

Here is a post I made in another thread showing which directories you may want to backup.

 

Hi All
I have recently bought myself acer aspire 5735. Thre was issues with the
Vista software and i have decided to downgrade to XP
I have tried to instal xp but with no luck, also somehow i have managed to
delete??? vista from HDD, altough the " boot screen" sais that it is still
there i cant get anything to work, not even the " last known good
configuration" option works, anything i choose there is a black screen with a loading bar
operating "microsoft corporation" but nothing happends. It doesnt load
anything.
I cant instal XP also,the msg sais "PXE-E61: media test failure, check
cable. PXE-M0F: existing PXE ROM, operating system not found."
i have changed the SATa BIOS settings from AHCI to IDE but still with the
same efect.

Please help

rgds
Martin

 

Already posted this on the review topic bbut... Am I the only one who got his 5735 with Linux? Hm... I have all the XP drivers on the Resource DVD but Vista Ultimate SP1 runs smoother...

 

Actually makes me wonder if I am the only person who got my 5735 with Vista Home Basic and is happy with it that way.

I do have dual-boot with Linux which certainly does not eat RAM like Vista does but I am at a loss for why so many people immediately wipe Vista in favour of XP. I did avoid moving to Vista for my desktop, but only because i do not feel Vista is worth buying when I can just keep using XP.

Sure XP feels more responsive but Vista is perfectly usable and as I paid for it in the price of the laptop, why not use it? By downgrading to XP some day soon you will find your drivers are no longer being updated which will be annoying.

In fact my only complaint about my 5735 (other than I dont like the trackpad as I keep resting my finger on it by accident due to the buttons being the same level as the pad) is that it came with 32bit Vista instead of 64bit.