Installing XP over factory Vista Basic

[acer152]

Acer Aspire 5570Z laptop came with Vista Basic (which is horrible), so
I installed XP Pro on new partition. Unfortunately Acer doesn't seem
to offer much for drivers or support of the 5570Z model. Now the
laptop boots directly to XP. I installed the 5570 (no z) drivers for
XP and most of them work, however the Audio (RealTek Audio) is screwed
up. It seems to work for a few minutes after boot, and then dies.
Also, Win Media Player doesn't work and alerts no valid audio drivers.

The Acer tech actually said that the 5570Z doesn't support XP...can
you believe that? They are selling laptops that don't even have
support for XP. So, when you go to Acer for 5570Z drivers, they don't
have any.

Any ideas on the Audio problems?

Also, I saw a tool for dual booting Vista and XP, when Vista is
factory installed, but can't remember where it was. Anybody know
where it is?

 

[English man]

go to the realtek homepage and get the correct ones there. (ps find out if u
have HD or '97 audio) install reboot and should work fine

 

[Steve Easton]

Have tried downloading and installing the XP version of the drivers from RealTek?
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...d=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false


Steve Easton

 

[Rock]

Acer Aspire 5570Z laptop came with Vista Basic (which is horrible), so
I installed XP Pro on new partition. Unfortunately Acer doesn't seem
to offer much for drivers or support of the 5570Z model. Now the
laptop boots directly to XP. I installed the 5570 (no z) drivers for
XP and most of them work, however the Audio (RealTek Audio) is screwed
up. It seems to work for a few minutes after boot, and then dies.
Also, Win Media Player doesn't work and alerts no valid audio drivers.

The Acer tech actually said that the 5570Z doesn't support XP...can
you believe that? They are selling laptops that don't even have
support for XP. So, when you go to Acer for 5570Z drivers, they don't
have any.

Any ideas on the Audio problems?

Also, I saw a tool for dual booting Vista and XP, when Vista is
factory installed, but can't remember where it was. Anybody know
where it is?

Post to an XP newsgroup for help with XP issues. Several laptop
manufacturers are making new laptops but not making XP drivers for them, so
Acer's lack of XP support for this model is not, per se, unusual. If there
are no drivers for it, then you can't run XP on it.

As to the dual boot, maybe you're thinking of VistaBootPro. See this link.
It's not going to help you resolve the lack of XP drivers.

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88924.html&sid=4d74351046374ca79e6dd6090b0bd9a2

There are a variety of ways to dual boot Vista and XP. Here is another
suggestion.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

 

[aaron]

Believe it or not, Acer Support told me that the 5570Z does not
support anything other than Vista. Can you believe that? They
actually make a computer that has no drivers for XP.

Unfreakin'believable...

 

[Jdr]

Believe it or not, Acer Support told me that the 5570Z does not
support anything other than Vista. Can you believe that? They
actually make a computer that has no drivers for XP.

Unfreakin'believable...

Drivers for Windows XP are an integrated part of OS,
which you're about to install after you delete the Vista from
your Acer laptop.
There will be NO any drivers on the laptop until you install
another OS. In this case Windows XP.

 

[Rock]

Believe it or not, Acer Support told me that the 5570Z does not
support anything other than Vista. Can you believe that? They
actually make a computer that has no drivers for XP.

That's not surprising or unusual. Other manufacturers are putting out new
computers, particularly laptops, but not supporting them in XP. That's were
doing a bit of research before hand is important.

 

[Rock]

"aaron" wrote

Drivers for Windows XP are an integrated part of OS,
which you're about to install after you delete the Vista from
your Acer laptop.
There will be NO any drivers on the laptop until you install
another OS. In this case Windows XP.

Yes some drivers are includined with the OS, but not for all hardware. And
this is especially a consideration for new hardware which was not in
existence when XP was released. Laptops are particularly proprietary, and
need drivers from the manufacturer. What the OP is experiencing is not
unusual. There are other manufacturer's who have new hardware for which
they are not providing XP drivers.