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Acer Aspire m1202 xp downgrade

Asked by: cheesebugah

We are using acronis universal restore to move an image from an older HP desktop to a new acer AMD desktop. The drivers for the desktop are only available for windows vista. Short of manually going and trying to find individual drivers from each manufacture, is there a way to force vista drivers to play with XP? I have had no luck so far finding drivers for them. Ontop of that, Acer did not include a driver CD, nor a recovery disk. *sigh*

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2009-10-06 at 09:49:13ID24789603
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Answers

 

by: vikshiPosted on 2009-10-06 at 09:57:10ID: 25507192

No, You should not forcibly insall the drivers like that.

You can find out what are the hardware and then download the individual drivers from the vendor site or directly from the acer.

TO check the hardware and drivers go to : http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/

or

Check this to find out the hardware and  drivers in a very quick time
http://www.driveragent.com/

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-10-06 at 23:58:53ID: 25512699

try this to identify the devices :

Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-System Information.
Click on "components" and highlight "problem devices".
All hardware devices with a driver problem will be listed here.
Make a note of the first line of the PNP Device ID line of the entry. It will show a Vendor number and a Device number (VENxxxxDEVxxxx) both four digits long.
Look up those numbers here:   http://www.pcidatabase.com/index.php

This will tell you the manufacturer and the chip number.  Check the manufacturer's website first or google them

but i must add that there are not XP drivers for all new hardware available

 

by: cheesebugahPosted on 2009-10-07 at 13:34:19ID: 31637811

I found the drivers on the website http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2813&ost=xp#anchor_os

which is the correct model. All I have left is the NIC, the onboard wifi, and the audio. Thank you very very much!

 

by: jcgriff2Posted on 2009-10-07 at 22:04:50ID: 25522420

Apology for leaving msg here --

@nobus - have not forgotton; no way to contact you; am often "Internet-less" - will be same for next 7-14 days... jcgriff2

 

by: nobusPosted on 2009-10-08 at 00:03:33ID: 25522803

no problem jcgriff just say the word

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