Re: Brand New Aspire XC-603G (ACX-603G-UW31). Windows 7 will not install in Legacy Mode

NTL1991 — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 05:00:35 GMT

Nothing at all, Mike... I resorted to spending money on a couple Stardock programs, namely Start8 and ModernMix, as well as some Windows 7 theme hacks to get it to appear like Windows 7. It's still not right, though...

It's too bad Acer has locked down their computers to the point of this. There's no reason why they cannot come out with a BIOS update to address this issue. My guess is that it may also hamper future upgrades to newer OS's, which will probably be deemed "unsupported" as well.

I guess I should've stuck with a traditional name brand PC...

-Nick

Brand New Aspire XC-603G (ACX-603G-UW31). Windows 7 will not install in Legacy Mode

NTL1991 — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:52:54 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to configure a newly purchased Acer desktop (Aspire ACX-603G-UW31), which has Windows 8.1 installed, for my mother who cannot grasp the steep learning curve from Windows 7 to Windows 8.

I have a fully licensed copy of Windows 7 x64 on DVD, and even after disabling SecureBoot mode and setting Launch CSM to Always, and then booting with F12, selecting the DVD drive as the boot device, Windows will not install correctly.

The very initial steps of setup are fine, that is, I am asked the press any key to boot from the DVD, Windows setup loads some files, but the problem comes when Windows setup actually starts. I get a BSOS STOP error with the message "The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI complaint." There is no updated BIOS for this model. So much for Legacy Mode...

Any ideas?

Thanks, Nick

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Re: Brand New Aspire XC-603G (ACX-603G-UW31). Windows 7 will not install in Legacy Mode

Brand New Aspire XC-603G (ACX-603G-UW31). Windows 7 will not install in Legacy Mode