Aspire 1650 WLMi
Hi,
I have just installed Windows 7 on my 10 year old Aspire 1650 WLMi and am having trouble with drivers, principally for the Conexant sound hardware and the ATI Radeon Mobility X300 video card. I can only find XP drivers on the Acer website.
Are these drivers available or should I give up now.
Appreciate any helpful advice
regards
Tim
Answers
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About ATI drivers, you could use the Legacy drivers from ATI/AMD website.
you can try to run the Auto-detect software from ATI/AMD, to find the latest driver:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/auto/autodetectutility.exe
About Conexant, try this:
100% trustable website
click on download, unzip the file and run the installer.
I'm not an Acer employee.0 -
Here's some more links to help you with Windows 7 X300 or Windows 10 X300. I have an old laptop with an X300, and I installed Lubuntu, although I do have a spare 32 bit retail Windows 7 key that I was thinking about putting windows 10 on it (or at least trying). I didn't have to do anything special when I installed Lubuntu....it worked fine with X300.
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=x300
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=conexant
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
If you clean install Windows 10, you'll need to change the product key to your windows 7 key at some point to activate windows 10 and get the free upgrade.
Let us know what you figure out.
I'm not an Acer employee.0 -
Thanks very much for responses.
I didn't have any luck with the sites suggested so I let Microsoft Updater do its work on Windows 7 and the drivers for both devices were eventually updated. I have now installed Windows 10 and everything running smoothly.
regards
Tim
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