I've got an acer aspire 3680-2576 laptop. I'm installing XP Home SP2 on it.
The wireless driver installs but windows reports "device cannot start, code
10." I tried all the wireless drivers listed for this computer on the acer
site and this is the only one that installs. It's the "atheros AR5600X"
driver. Rebooting makes no difference. Uninstalling and re-installing makes
no difference. The wireless switch on the front of the computer doesn't
light when the switch is pushed. Any ideas what to do? Thanks.
Going back to an earlier OS often results in driver issues. Might check
Atheros and see if an XP driver is available. Otherwise you might have to
reinstall the original OS, Vista, I presume. Either that or purchase a PC
card wireless adapter that comes with XP drivers.
HH
"Gary Roach" <jgroach@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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> I've got an acer aspire 3680-2576 laptop. I'm installing XP Home SP2 on
> it. The wireless driver installs but windows reports "device cannot start,
> code 10." I tried all the wireless drivers listed for this computer on the
> acer site and this is the only one that installs. It's the "atheros
> AR5600X" driver. Rebooting makes no difference. Uninstalling and
> re-installing makes no difference. The wireless switch on the front of the
> computer doesn't light when the switch is pushed. Any ideas what to do?
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Gary Roach
> ADB Services
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"Gary Roach" <jgroach@cogeco.ca> wrote in
news:nU%Di.1503$tx1.414@read1.cgocable.net:
> I've got an acer aspire 3680-2576 laptop. I'm installing XP Home SP2
> on it. The wireless driver installs but windows reports "device cannot
> start, code 10." I tried all the wireless drivers listed for this
> computer on the acer site and this is the only one that installs. It's
> the "atheros AR5600X" driver. Rebooting makes no difference.
> Uninstalling and re-installing makes no difference. The wireless
> switch on the front of the computer doesn't light when the switch is
> pushed. Any ideas what to do? Thanks.
>
Since I am considering moving back to XP on a 3680-2633, I saved this link:
Han wrote:
> "Gary Roach" <jgroach@cogeco.ca> wrote in
> news:nU%Di.1503$tx1.414@read1.cgocable.net:
>
>> I've got an acer aspire 3680-2576 laptop. I'm installing XP Home SP2
>> on it. The wireless driver installs but windows reports "device cannot
>> start, code 10." I tried all the wireless drivers listed for this
>> computer on the acer site and this is the only one that installs. It's
>> the "atheros AR5600X" driver. Rebooting makes no difference.
>> Uninstalling and re-installing makes no difference. The wireless
>> switch on the front of the computer doesn't light when the switch is
>> pushed. Any ideas what to do? Thanks.
>>
> Since I am considering moving back to XP on a 3680-2633, I saved this link:
>
> http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/for...3680.pdf?CFID=
> 3524873&CFTOKEN=95620488
>
> It seemed that there were wireless drivers for XP when I looked. Did you
> try the one(s) listed?
>
>
There are Atheros drivers for XP. If after installing the drivers, and
the unit recognizes, but won't start the driver, the card is defective.
Han wrote:
> "Gary Roach" <jgroach@cogeco.ca> wrote in
> news:nU%Di.1503$tx1.414@read1.cgocable.net:
>
>> I've got an acer aspire 3680-2576 laptop. I'm installing XP Home SP2
>> on it. The wireless driver installs but windows reports "device cannot
>> start, code 10." I tried all the wireless drivers listed for this
>> computer on the acer site and this is the only one that installs. It's
>> the "atheros AR5600X" driver. Rebooting makes no difference.
>> Uninstalling and re-installing makes no difference. The wireless
>> switch on the front of the computer doesn't light when the switch is
>> pushed. Any ideas what to do? Thanks.
>>
> Since I am considering moving back to XP on a 3680-2633, I saved this link:
>
> http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/for...3680.pdf?CFID=
> 3524873&CFTOKEN=95620488
>
> It seemed that there were wireless drivers for XP when I looked. Did you
> try the one(s) listed?
>
>
There are Atheros drivers for XP. If after installing the drivers, and
the unit recognizes, but won't start the driver, the card is defective.
This may be my first post but thats beside the point, if when you dual boot vista/xp and in vista the card in question works and connects to the internet just fine using the supplied acer driver, but when you boot into xp using that same card and the supplied xp driver from acer you simply get the device cannot start. I also noticed an earlier post for aspire 3680-2633 and the driver under xp was installing the "atheros AR5600X" driver while mine is an aspire 3680-2682, anyways my point is the card has to work and therefore acer must either have a bad driver OR the driver is installing the incorrect version for that card... there are models besides the ar5600x that are packed into that driver set. Smply power off your machine and remove the battery, then on the bottom of your notebook there will be 2 access panels. The smaller one is the access panel to your sata hdd/ide hdd, while the larger one with the Vista OEM sticker contains your RAM, modem, wireless card, and possibly bluetooth device. Remove the panel by loosing the two screws (don't worry they do not come all the way out) then just pop the cover off using your fingernail at the center lift point.the card the with black and white wires attached to it is your wireless card.
remove the two screw holding it down and the card will lift up at an angle but be CAREFUL because if you lift the card into a bind it will break! now that you have removed it from its socket on the bottom side you will see the model under the fcc id, mine is an "Atheros AR5BXB63" not the the "atheros AR5600X" that the driver tries to install by default. Now that you have your card model simply put your notebook back together the same way you took it apart and use THIS driver for the install Download Atheros AR5xxx Driver 5.1.1.9 Driver for Windows 95/98/9X/ME/NT/2000/2K/XP/2003 - Softpedia btw also u might have to do a manual install and pick the AR5007EG vesion like i did, after that problem solved!
( In case the black and white wires come off the black is the main and the white wire is the aux.)
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