Notebooks & Netbooks

[Sazuzaki]

Been googling around to see where I can download the drivers for this laptop and even acer's own website don't show them. I am installing windows 7 (I hate windows 8/8.1!) and I just wanna make sure I get all the right drivers for it before installing windows 7.

[laurent_14]

Hello Sazuzaki,

In first, I advise you to make a screen copy of the device manager expanded and the acer driver tab.

Some drivers are compatibles with Windows 7. Download the drivers one by one and read the file readme.txt.

Example:

Chipset

Intel

Chipset pilote

9.4.0.1023

5.3 MB

2014/03/24

Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64  
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista x64  
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 7 x64  
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8 x64 
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64
Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 x64 
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64

For the missing driver(s), research directly on the manufactor website. 

[laurent_14]

Hello Sazuzaki,

In first, I advise you to make a screen copy of the device manager expanded and the acer driver tab.

Some drivers are compatibles with Windows 7. Download the drivers one by one and read the file readme.txt.

Example:

Chipset

Intel

Chipset pilote

9.4.0.1023

5.3 MB

2014/03/24

Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64  
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista x64  
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 7 x64  
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8 x64 
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64
Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows 8.1 x64 
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64

For the missing driver(s), research directly on the manufactor website. 

[oksygen]

This is not oficial site, and i dont know if the drivers are good, but i found a link in this forum somewhere

Drivers

[osandakj]

Hello. Latest drivers are also working fine with the previous editions of Windows. You don't need to find drivers from the external sites. Just make a drivers disc by using acer erecovery program. Then downgrade your notebook to windows 7. reinstall drivers using your driver disc. Or you can simply download windows 8 x64 drivers from acer drivers and manuals sections for your windows 7 x64.

You may be need to change some bios settings to install windows on the windows 8 pre loaded machines. Or just make a efi compatible bootable disc or usb drive. Google is your friend