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| Thread ID: 117451 | 2011-04-19 09:33:00 | Need help with finding laptop drivers | bluezone (12434) | Press F1 |
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| 1195626 | 2011-04-19 09:33:00 | Hi all I have a Acer Aspire 4741G that i am trying to setup as dual boot win7 and xp pro. I have both os's and got xp pro installed and have got most of the drivers off the acer site. support.acer.com But I need video drivers as all the ones I have tryed on there are saying not surported and need vista or win7 even when i select windows xp pro at the top of the page. NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 320M CUDA 1GB Screenshot i713.photobucket.com I installed the audio driver and have got sound but there is still some audio thing needed. I think the VGA driver has some sound driver files with it as i seen a sounds folder in the win7 drivers. Any help would be mint. |
bluezone (12434) | ||
| 1195627 | 2011-04-19 10:55:00 | Have you tried using that hardware vendor detection utility on the download page? | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1195628 | 2011-04-19 11:09:00 | I think this is a common problem with laptops with switchable graphics: the graphics driver doesn't support Windows XP. There's someone else who has a Lenovo Ideapad Y460, who can't get graphics to work on XP, and he didn't seem to notice this as a problem. So, unfortunately, you might be out of luck... for a while at least. p.s. Just out of interest, why do you keep two Windows? Because when I have two Windows, I end up leaving one deserted (which is usually XP). |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1195629 | 2011-04-19 11:14:00 | Actually, you can put the graphics driver on: support.acer.com (It's for ATI graphics, but I'd assume NVIDIA should work similarly). NOTE: BEFORE flashing BIOS, check whether you already have the option available in BIOS. Also, flashing BIOS has quite a bit of risk involved (just want to point that out to you). |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1195630 | 2011-04-19 11:28:00 | Have you tried using that hardware vendor detection utility on the download page? Yeh that only lets you knw a couple of brands of the parts in your pc. ie. camera, wireless... |
bluezone (12434) | ||
| 1195631 | 2011-04-19 11:31:00 | Actually, you can put the graphics driver on: support.acer.com (It's for ATI graphics, but I'd assume NVIDIA should work similarly). NOTE: BEFORE flashing BIOS, check whether you already have the option available in BIOS. Also, flashing BIOS has quite a bit of risk involved (just want to point that out to you). Thanks dude. I have updated the BIOS to latest. was nice and easy. :) Now to restart and have a look in there see whats changes. |
bluezone (12434) | ||
| 1195632 | 2011-04-19 11:41:00 | Just had a look in bios. Nothing in there to change Switchable graphics" setting to "Discrete" | bluezone (12434) | ||
| 1195633 | 2011-04-21 02:59:00 | All sorted now. :) | bluezone (12434) | ||
| 1195634 | 2011-04-21 07:43:00 | All sorted now. :) Cool. :) |
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