Sunday, January 3, 2010

Install Windows 7 on Acer Aspire 5050 (part 2)

3:18 PM by Ady P · 7 comments



Continuing the first post, this article will focus on the driver installation only.

Overall, all drivers of Acer Aspire 5050 can be installed in windows 7. Some drivers detected automatically, some can be installed directly from CD and some of them need a bit advance method.

Below are step by step to check and install the drivers:
1. Open Device Manager

  • Open Windows Explorer, click on My Computer.
  • At the top, click Sytem Properties, and choose Device Manager at the left pane.
  • For all items, which have exclamation sign should be prioritize to be updated.

2. Update Driver from CD

  • Insert your windows XP Driver CD, and let the Autorun executed.
  • Install all drivers from it. But some of them won't be able to run, such as: Display Adapters - don't worry, step 3 will be the solution.

3. Update Driver Manually

  • Back to your Device Manager
  • Right click on the item that has a problem, for an example Display Adapters > Update Driver Software...
  • Choose "Browse my computer for driver software"
  • Click "Browse...", and pointed to your Optical Driver. For Display Adapters, pointed to "E:\Drivers\VGA"
  • Click Next, and the system will install automatically.


Do all those 3 steps, and... hola all drivers can be detected by windows 7. Your resolution can be set to 1280x800, sound can be heard, Bluetooth works perfectly!

However a bit annoying thing is at the wireless light indicator. Wireless can be activated/deactivated through little button at the front side, but the red light indicator will become "crazy". Sometime it will blinking, no matter your wireless is in on or off position.

And one more, Launch Manager can't be launched. So four buttons above your keyboard can't be used anymore - but, it's not a big problem compare with the benefit of windows 7 :)

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