Acer Aspire 5735 lapop - I formatted & now it won't let me install OS

Acer Aspire 5735 lapop - I formatted & now it won't let me install OS

I have purchased an Acer Aspire 5735 laptop - it did not come with any recovery disks of any sort. Well, I got a virus and I formatted the HD thinking it wouldn't be a problem to load my XP OS on it, well, it doesn't like it at all. I have tried a host of variations from Win98 to XP to VISTA and nothing will load properly. I will either get the BSOD or it hangs when booting.
Does anyone know a way of fixing this? I tried returning it to BestBuy and they weren't having any of it even though it is only 17 days old.
Right now I will be happy with a MS OS on it, so the difficulty is discovering why it won't let me install one!

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

First off, forget Win98 (driver support is essentially non-existent for that OS).

Next, when you start up the laptop, go into the BIOS.
Then find an option that says AHCI ... and change that to IDE.

Next, try installing your XP like that.
The BSOD when attempting to install something other than Vista is usually due to the fact that SATA drivers are missing.
To go around this problem and if you still want to install XP, then do what I wrote about the BIOS.

Once you're inside XP install utility, format the partition where you want to install the OS in question (hopefully the one where the virus sneaked in) and then go ahead with the install.

After you go into XP, install the chipset and sata drivers for your motherboard/hdd, followed by the gpu drivers, then lan/wifi drivers, sound card and modem ... the works.

Also ... before you go online, please install an antivirus such as avast.
do yourself a favor and instead of going to a website, simply install your antivirus first, update it's definitions via the internet (that much is perfectly safe) and do a full system scan to make sure you don't have any viruses on the computer.

A note of caution ... if your XP doesn't have slipstreamed service packs on it, you are in for some long waits for downloading/updating the OS in question.

Also ... if you had issues installing Vista, there might be a possibility that the virus penetrated a vital part of the computer (let's hope this isn't so though and that something else is responsible for this).

If you have a virus detection in BIOS enabled, make sure it stays like that (although at times this had a tendency of messing with some OS'es install).

Try installing the XP first by disabling AHCI in BIOS.
It should work like that.
But also make sure you have all of the drivers for your hardware.
If you don't, then try finding out which components you have inside the laptop, then going to the manufacturers websites and downloading the drivers for XP from there.

The virus on the other hand should be deleted via the format (provided it didn't go further than infecting some OS files to begin with).

One last thing: Acer usually doesn't provide a recovery disc. They have a hidden partition where they store the recovery image. You can access it by pressing the ALT and F10 buttons while booting (when the Acer logo boots up).
If the recovery doesn't work, you can always try installing XP via the described method.
Also in the future, be more careful about viruses. I haven't had a case of that in a VERY long time (and I have a tendency of surfing through 'suspicious' sites).
Essentially you need a better antivirus software and protection (both of which are very basic and quite easy to set up).

 

Hi
Recently i have 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

 

Windows XP does not have support for SATA drives. You need to either slipstream your SATA drivers into the windows installation CD, or you need to install the SATA drivers for your system onto a Floppy disc. Than you would need a windows certified floppy drive such as a TEAC, MITSUMI or Smartdisc, and than you could install the SATA drivers from their.

Search for slipstreaming the drivers, you can use nlite to do this.

Good luck,

K-TRON

 

Hi there...

I'm hijacking this thread I also am trying to install xp on my acer 5735. I was able to slipstream drivers for the SATA bus using nlite but I seem to be encountering a different problem. The windows installer just about completes loading all of the drivers in to RAM when it crashes. It does not make it to any of the screens where it asks for user input.

The technical information for the crash reads like this:

*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xc0000005, 0xF748E0BF, 0xF78DA208, OxF78D9F08)

*** pci.sys - Address F748E0BF base at F7487000, DateStamp 3b7d855c

Of course it prefaces this message by asking you whether this is the first time this screen has appeared and some instructions about disabling some drivers if they are listed. Unfortunately I have no idea what is meant by the information it supplied. Any help from any of you geniuses out there would be appreciated beyond your wildest dreams

-nate

P.S. I am still able to boot into windows vista home premium.