Acer drivers

[Or Tsemah]

Hi.
I have an Acer 5600 and not all of the drivers work, especiall the OrbiCam
which doesn't seem to like vista and occasionly works (Using XP Drivers)

Does anyone know when Acer is going to release Vista Drivers ?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Have you asked Acer yet? Check to see if your product is listed as
upgradable?
http://global.acer.com/support/winvista/index.htm

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[JW]

Is the OrbiCam an Acer product or a product of another manuacturer? If
another manufacturer then you should check their Website in addition to the
ACER Website if you are not getting Vista drivers for your RTM Copy vista
from WinUpdate.

Hi,

Have you asked Acer yet? Check to see if your product is listed as
upgradable?
http://global.acer.com/support/winvista/index.htm

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Kerry Brown]

Don't use the Bison webcam drivers that winupdate wants to use for the Acer
Orbicam. They will lock up Vista and a power off reset is the only thing
that will fix it. I haven't used it a lot but the Acer XP drivers work OK on
my Acer notebook with the built in Orbicam in Vista x86. As far as I know,
if the notebook was advertised as Vista Capable, Acer has said the drivers
will be available shortly after Vista is publically released.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

Is the OrbiCam an Acer product or a product of another manuacturer? If
another manufacturer then you should check their Website in addition to
the ACER Website if you are not getting Vista drivers for your RTM Copy
vista from WinUpdate.

 

[Mike]

I've had two separate emails from Acer indicating that they're NOT going to provide Vista support for users who purchased their equipment prior to October 2006. So even though my Tablet PC is listed on their site as Vista Premium Ready, it's not going to get a Vista upgrade. I've tried upgrading with a Vista Ultimate disk from MS but most of the OEM-supplied material fails.

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[JW]

Just because a system is Vista Premium Ready does not mean it comes with
Vista installed or that there will be a free upgrade to Vista provided by
the system supplier. The free uupgrade program is supported by Microsoft
only for systems sold starting about the end of last October.

 

[Mike Williams]

I have not supposed any of those things.

As I said I have Vista Premium Ready hardware, and a Vista Ultimate Disk.
Therefore I don't need any free upgrade. I have asked Acer about
Vista-compatible drivers and utilities for the hardware and they have been
quite unambiguous in saying that they would NOT make them available.

 

[JW]

I'm sorry that I misunderstood you.
The position they are taking is certainly very strange. Since they will
also be submitting all of their drivers to MS in order for them to get on
the WHQL and to be "signed" I guess they just want all of their customers to
get driver updates from WinUpdate or as part of the installation updates at
installation time instead of from their own ASUS Website.

 

[Mike Williams]

If they did that it would be new for Acer. I didn't get any driver/runtime
updates from Acer on XP through WinUpdate. They all had to come from their
rather awful FTP site.

Waiting for Vista drivers to come through WinUpdate is going to be too late
for the most part because so much stuff just fails when you do the upgrade.
Microsoft's upgrade Advisor warns you against some of the non-driver pieces.
All in all it was the worst O/S upgrade experience I've been through in over
15 years.

 

[Pedro Silva]

Hi.

My name is Pedro Silva and i have a notebook Acer 5601 with a Orbicam on it.

Since it's a Logitech product, i downloaded the drivers from the Acer
support for Win XP and installed it on Vista x86, and everithing works just
fine, no problems what so ever.

GL,

Pedro

Don't use the Bison webcam drivers that winupdate wants to use for the
Acer Orbicam. They will lock up Vista and a power off reset is the only
thing that will fix it. I haven't used it a lot but the Acer XP drivers
work OK on my Acer notebook with the built in Orbicam in Vista x86. As far
as I know, if the notebook was advertised as Vista Capable, Acer has said
the drivers will be available shortly after Vista is publically released.