The new year saw a removal for drivers of old hardware? Will they return for Aspire E5-511P?

FirestormDDash
FirestormDDash Member Posts: 2 New User
edited January 13 in Aspire Laptops

At least for: https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/product-support/Aspire%20E5-511P/downloads

Still actually use it, and the odd time I reset it or something gets corrupted the drivers are needed. But downloaded some before December ended, and January they are gone. I understand not making new drivers for legacy hardware, sure. But removing them is a little problematic.

[Edited the thread to add model number to the title]

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,498 Trailblazer
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    Yes, once they get old enough Acer removes the files from their servers. It's usually not an issue because there are third party sites that archive old drivers. Your E5-511P isn't quite ten years old, but getting close, and since it shipped with Windows 8.1 it's not too surprising they have removed them.

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,498 Trailblazer
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    Yes, once they get old enough Acer removes the files from their servers. It's usually not an issue because there are third party sites that archive old drivers. Your E5-511P isn't quite ten years old, but getting close, and since it shipped with Windows 8.1 it's not too surprising they have removed them.

    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
  • FirestormDDash
    FirestormDDash Member Posts: 2 New User
    edited January 13
    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1319826#Comment_1319826

    Understandable… But unless those third party sites archive them under the laptop model, there is no casual way of knowing what drivers I would need. And they did update those drivers for Windows 10 as well, even a BIOS update for 10. Not that it matters. So it remains, when there's a problem I just have to dive into the deep web, haha. 😅

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