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    installing xp on aspire 5715z

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by wintron, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. wintron

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    i have an acer aspire 5715z laptop with vista home premium installed . i want to install xp i know that i can slipstream the ahci driver onto an xp sp3 cd that i have . thing is i cant find any drivers for it . nothing in the euro site .

    has anyone been able to install xp sp3 on an aspire 5715z ?

    thanks , your input would be greatly appreciated
     
    wintron, Aug 5, 2008
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    search the NBR FORUM SEARCH for

    SOULPASS XP SATA install that will take care of all your problems... and most of the drivers there will work for you as well
     
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    ok thanks . i'll give it a read .
     
    wintron, Aug 6, 2008
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    ok i have read a bit and most concerns the aspire 5315 . anyone knows where i can get drivers for the 5715z , for xp ?

    thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 14, 2008
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    drivers are the same... i know you have a few devices that aren't listed on that site..

    just get that procedure completed and get those drivers working then we can point you to the other drivers you need
     
    bigozone, Aug 16, 2008
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    xp has been installed on laptop . only drivers i had to search for was for the modem . had to use the ambit ones . thanks .

    one thing though , i have been reading on that link you provided overheating issues with xp if you let the laptop enter standby mode so i have disabled standby . i have read a bit but i'm confused . this is a problem for some people and not for others . can i have your advice on this issue . thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 17, 2008
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    the OVER HEATING ISSUE is resolved by updating the BIOS to 1.33 or higher
     
    bigozone, Aug 17, 2008
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    ok thanks i'll update to 1.43 . one final thing , bios updates are only available for vista . can i use them on xp to flash within xp ? thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 17, 2008
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    doesn't matter VISTA bios are going to work w/ XP

    trust me... i wondered the same thing once... turns out the difference is a VISTA BIOS has special little section with VISTA SPECIFIC info and as it turns out that VISTA DATA isn't even looked at by XP... so any VISTA BIOS should work fine with the XP OS
     
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    ok got it . once again thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 17, 2008
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    no problem... i've been running XP for 8 months now... it's the only way to go.. and if you have trouble w/ finding drivers let me know

    but i don't anticipate you having any problem... just follow the guide at SOULPASS.... follow it exactly... don't try to add SP3 or anything else...

    just do what we know works.
     
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    hmm . sp3 already added . anything i should be aware of ? haven't noticed anything weird
     
    wintron, Aug 17, 2008
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    well some people have had problems getting audio to install correctly after SP3.... that's why they say to install audio driver FIRST....

    unless they changed that part of the GUIDE when they revised it...
    too bad i didn't save a copy of the old guide,, but i didn't forsee them chaning it....

    it may work fine now... but back in the first days of SP3 everyone was trying slipstream everything they could,, as best i recall the only issue was AUDIO problems but by downloading and installing the REALTEK driver 2.00 or what ever the newest version is might get you around the hastle
     
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    then i think that i accidently followed the correct procedure .
    i had a winxp sp2 disc with sata drivers slipstreamed . after installing winxp i install drivers in the order provided by soulpass . then i windows updated sp3 and additional updates
     
    wintron, Aug 18, 2008
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    sounds like all is good..... does that mean that you have XP up and running??
     
    bigozone, Aug 18, 2008
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    All the drivers install fine on a SP3 Slipdtreamed disk for me, plus i have made a nearly* perfect unattened xp disk.

    *Still working out how to slipstream all the .exe drivers
     
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    i guess they got the little issue w/ the MS HD AUDIO DRIVER straightened out!!
    cool,, then i can make an SP3 slipstream CD and quit re-installing SP3 everytime i reload my laptop....

    i reload instead of running DISK DEFRAGMENT!! :D :eek: ;)
     
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    yep all running fine here .
    thanks
     
    wintron, Aug 18, 2008
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    congrats... how do you like your laptop now??? i bet it zooms!!

    and thankyou for reporting back about the success w/ sp3 slipstreamed,, i guess it's time break down and make a new cd
     
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    yep it flys :)
     
    wintron, Aug 19, 2008
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    did you find all your drivers??

    PM me a list of hardware you have and i'll post a link to the newest drivers..

    the new atheros driver is a big help where disconnects are concerned
     
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    everything working fine here . of course please post the link for the new atheros driver although i havent had a disconnects on the moment

    thanks
     
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    page won't load right now
    i'll post later
     
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    100% right :)

    Vista BIOS works just fine for Xp. Afaik the reason they are called "Vista Bios files" is that they are able to "read/hold" info reggarding DMI data, such as Manufacurer Name, Product Name, Serial Number, UUID String and Asset Tag, used for Vista installation/activation, totally useless for xp, which just "ignores" the existence of that info.

    Hope it helps, kind regards!
     
    elbubi, Sep 1, 2008
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    ok thanks for the info . bios updated .
    once again thanks :)
     
    wintron, Sep 1, 2008
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