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    Switched from Vista to Xp, issues.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by pebsapp, Apr 27, 2008.

  1. pebsapp

    pebsapp Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok I bought my 5100 about a yr ago, cant stand vista. So we formatted and installed XP, so far so good. I was on the acer site looking for drivers, got most, but my cd/dvd rom doesnt work. Are there drivers for it and where can I find them as I dont have the partitions anymore.
    Is there someone that has this model laptop with xp and has the recovery cd? If I use the one that came with Its going to want vista reinstalled and I dont want that.

    Someone help, thanks.
     
    pebsapp, Apr 27, 2008
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    kuncheesh Notebook Evangelist

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    thats weird i thought cd/dvd drive didnt need any external drivers. make sure it works perfectly by plugging into another machine
     
    kuncheesh, Apr 27, 2008
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    pebsapp Notebook Enthusiast

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    ^^ cd's are ok, they do work in another machine. I tried about 4 different cd's... confused.

    Like you say, i didnt think it would need drivers. Hmm ODD!
     
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    must be hardware. the worst case is that the southbridge chip on ur mobo got fried. however that would lead us to a stuck hdd also. hmmm try reinstalling xp.
     
    kuncheesh, Apr 28, 2008
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    do you have anything showing in device manager with an exclamation mark?
     
    goofball, Apr 28, 2008
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    I'll check on that, thanks

    Ok, I will keep that in mind.
     
    pebsapp, Apr 28, 2008
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