Acer Aspire M3610 - question regarding installing Windows XP

Hi,

I recently bought the Acer Aspire M3610 dekstop PC, Intel Core 2 Quad, 2GB
RAM, and Windows Vista Home Premium preloaded.

But after almost 2 weeks of use, I'm growing more and more frustrated with
Vista. It seems every day new problems pop up.

I was wondering if installing Windows XP on this system is... doable. Can it
be done without too much trouble? I own a copy of XP Home Edition, which at
the moment I still have installed on my older box.

Any tips, suggestions, etc would be greatly appreciated.

You will need to find out if Acer has drivers that will work on xp.

If not you might not be ble to use components on your laptop.

EJM727

"Lukas Mariman" <lukas.mariman@REMOVEdommel.be> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I recently bought the Acer Aspire M3610 dekstop PC, Intel Core 2 Quad, 2GB
> RAM, and Windows Vista Home Premium preloaded.
>
> But after almost 2 weeks of use, I'm growing more and more frustrated with
> Vista. It seems every day new problems pop up.
>
> I was wondering if installing Windows XP on this system is... doable. Can
> it be done without too much trouble? I own a copy of XP Home Edition,
> which at the moment I still have installed on my older box.
>
> Any tips, suggestions, etc would be greatly appreciated.

"Eugene Maes" <emaes1@tampabay.rr.com> schreef in bericht
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> You will need to find out if Acer has drivers that will work on xp.
>
> If not you might not be ble to use components on your laptop.

Thanks for the tip! I'll make sure to check with Acer before I switch to
XP...

"Lukas Mariman" <lukas.mariman@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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>
> "Eugene Maes" <emaes1@tampabay.rr.com> schreef in bericht
> news:4819e140$0$5140$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> You will need to find out if Acer has drivers that will work on xp.
>>
>> If not you might not be ble to use components on your laptop.
>
> Thanks for the tip! I'll make sure to check with Acer before I switch to
> XP...

BTW, I'd be very interested to know if there are other people "here" with
the same system, or with a similar model, and what their experiences are,
especially concerning gaming.

I've tried out a couple of games so far, and have already run into trouble.
I can't seem to get Bioshock to run properly, and apparently Vista doesn't
like the Battle for Middle Earth RTS game... Wonderful. :-/

[maxglover1989]

im currently as i type installing xp on my m3610, iv found the drivers for the sound video and ethernet
here are the links
If you want to use a DSL Internet Connection, you
need to install the Ethernet Driver in yk51x86_v10.53.2.3.zip
from
Marvell: Consumer Driver Search

If you want to install the audio driver, proceed as follows:
1. In Windows XP Device Manager remove the PCI devices marked with the yellow questionmark.
2. Download and install one of the Catalyst drivers from
AMD GAME Drivers & Tools
(This is actually a graphics driver, but also required to squeeze
sound out of the box)
3. Download and install the Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs from
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

hope this helps

On 20 mei, 00:16, maxglover1989
<maxglover1989.39p...@no.email.invalid> wrote:
> im currently as i type installing xp on my m3610, iv found the drivers
> for the sound video and ethernet
> here are the links
> If you want to use a DSL Internet Connection, you
> need to install the Ethernet Driver in yk51x86_v10.53.2.3.zip
> from
> 'Marvell: Consumer Driver Search'
> (http://www.marvell.com/drivers/drive...?dId=103&pId=3)
>
> If you want to install the audio driver, proceed as follows:
> 1. In Windows XP Device Manager remove the PCI devices marked with the
> yellow questionmark.
> 2. Download and install one of the Catalyst drivers from
> 'AMD GAME Drivers & Tools'
> (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...=xp/radeonx-xp)
> (This is actually a graphics driver, but also required to squeeze
> sound out of the box)
> 3. Download and install the Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs fromhttp://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/down...3&GetDown=false
>
> hope this helps

Thanks, I appreciate your help! I'll let you know how it goes.

"Sentinel" <lukas.mariman@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> On 20 mei, 00:16, maxglover1989
> <maxglover1989.39p...@no.email.invalid> wrote:
>> im currently as i type installing xp on my m3610, iv found the drivers
>> for the sound video and ethernet
>> here are the links
>> If you want to use a DSL Internet Connection, you
>> need to install the Ethernet Driver in yk51x86_v10.53.2.3.zip
>> from
>> 'Marvell: Consumer Driver Search'
>> (http://www.marvell.com/drivers/drive...?dId=103&pId=3)
>>
>> If you want to install the audio driver, proceed as follows:
>> 1. In Windows XP Device Manager remove the PCI devices marked with the
>> yellow questionmark.
>> 2. Download and install one of the Catalyst drivers from
>> 'AMD GAME Drivers & Tools'
>> (http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...=xp/radeonx-xp)
>> (This is actually a graphics driver, but also required to squeeze
>> sound out of the box)
>> 3. Download and install the Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs
>> fromhttp://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/down...3&GetDown=false
>>
>> hope this helps
>
> Thanks, I appreciate your help! I'll let you know how it goes.

OK, I managed to get all the drivers and managed to install XP Home Edition.
It seems to work fine, although a few issues have emerged since.

- I recently noticed my Acer USB keyboard doesn't seem to work when I want
to access, say, the BIOS setup. Funnily enough I CAN use the keyboard to
enter the BIOS in the first place, so why doesn't it work? I don't know if
installing XP has anything to do with it. It used to work before.

- Last week I installed a second drive. While it seems to run reliably, I've
had Windows hang a couple of times since. The desktop loads, but it seems to
hang trying to load more stuff, such as the items in the system tray. I can
move the mouse, and it changes into an hourglass when I hower the mouse over
the taskbar. I can get the system to work ok by accessing the task manager
and logging off and then back on.

Because the is started at around the time I installed the new drive, so
naturally I was wondering if there might be a connection. But then again I
only installed XP on this Acer M3610 just 2 weeks or so ago, so maybe
there's something else going on?

I have to say I wasn't sure if I connected the drive in the right slot. As I
don't have any manual for my mobo, I just made a guess.