i have a Aspire ES1-531 put windows 7 on and have no drivers

Tan anyone please help me on this one. i originally upgraded it to windows 10 then found out things i needed would work so much better on windows 7 so i brought a windows 7, installed it and i have no drives or anything for it. i cant get on the internet what so ever through it WiFi or hard wire. i really don't know what or how to do it, have spent hours downloading things on my other laptop to disc then put disc into the aspire it reads but i cant ever complete things. i just want to be able to get it to connect to the net then i will have my fingers crossed that it will update its self and needed drivers. it says it has no network hardware but i know it has so just guessing there are no drivers to link everything. sorry about mu not knowing much on this situation and hope someone can advise me. Thank you in advance.

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Commodore_1995#

Can you tell me the model of your wireless network card?

Hartsta

Wow thank you for your quick response. I don't have a clue? Just what ever they fit as standard from the factory. Is there a way I can find out?.

Commodore_1995#

You can check in the lower case.

Hartsta

I'm so sorry lower case 🤔 to me that's not a capital letter 🙄🤓.

Hartsta

I googled and found this, will this say anything?

Hartsta

I think I have found it. On the back of my laptop it says QCWB335

Commodore_1995#

OK! Check if this QCWB335 driver provided by lenovo for windows 7, works on your notebook: https://download.lenovo.com/consumer/desktop/j1101611.exe

Then, update the remaining drivers with the iobit driverbooster.

Hartsta

OMG wow thank you so much for replying and suggesting things, yes I have it sorted. Just need to sort Bluetooth and the USB sockets and think I'm done. Thank you again. So driver for the higher speed USB (blue) that will work on windows 7.

Commodore_1995#

Although I don't like this program, I suggest you install the iobo driverbooster to install the other drivers for windows 7.

Hartsta

I'm so sorry about my delay. Thank you so much that worked and got me back on line. I now have another problem. I can find anything to drive my com ports. Can't even find the word port in my device manager 🙈 sorry to be a pain again. I kind of regret downgrading to windows 7

Hartsta

Also it says no plug and play drivers

Commodore_1995#

are there still any drivers with problems in the device manager?

Hartsta

Thank you for getting back to me, intel(R) celeron (R)pentium(R) Storage control cluster 0F14 says no drivers installed then 2 more connected under other devices as unknown device says no driver installed code 28 two of them location is PCI bus then the other unknown is location 0

Commodore_1995#

Make sure the driverpack finds the other drivers. It is necessary to disable all useless programs that the program asks to install.

Hartsta

Where do I get a drive pack from, when I put windows 7 on I had no drives for anything and had to put them on well struggle to find and put them on. Really wish I never done it now.

aphanic

Let's try something that should make it easier for you. Download Snappy Drivers Origin (you want the application only), decompress it and run it (SDIO_x64_R715.exe).

You'll see something like this:

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Accept the license and allow it access through the firewall (it uses P2P to download indexes and packs):

Then download only the indexes, you're not interested in downloading all of the packs because most won't apply to your system:

After a while you'll see some updates, tick the boxes of the ones that don't currently have drivers. You could also use the program to upgrade the drivers os those that already do, but I'm not sure how the compatibility checks are done here, it may be safe (most likely), but you may also get to a crash.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/fu/afp03j6eaocw.gif

Afterwards reboot and you should be all set. If there were still yellow triangle-labelled items in the device manager, post their IDs and we'll try to get you the proper driver. From the Device Manager, double click the item and go to the Details tab, choose the "Hardware Ids" property and post a screenshot or picture. It should look like this:

Hartsta

Thank you so much for helping me with this. I did all but it kept putting a fatal error and having to go from a earlier date. On the device manager it says a Intel (R) Celeron(R)/Pentium(R) Storage Control Cluster -0F14 that has no driver but I can't find one anywhere