Cable Forum - View Single Post - took off Vista and installed XP, then the laptop stop working, help!

frank.lui · 22-01-2011, 22:12

I have an Acer TravelMate 3040 (the samll nice one!) pre-installed Vista. The small horse seemed to struggling with the big wagon so I decided to take off Vista and install a XP on it.
I used a XP recovery disk from an old Acer laptop to install (do not ask any question about legality like I was asked before, I own both of them). When the small horse rebooted, Xp could not find drivers for quite a few things. I downloaded some drivers from Acer website. But I still have some troubles:
No driver for camera (I downloaded but not working)
No driver for network controller
No driver for PCI device
No drive for SM bus controller
And the computer could not find wireless card so I have to use wired slot!
And I only got VGA mode!

Any one give some tips?
Thanks a lot in advenace!

22-01-2011, 22:12	#1
frank.lui Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 120	took off Vista and installed XP, then the laptop stop working, help! I have an Acer TravelMate 3040 (the samll nice one!) pre-installed Vista. The small horse seemed to struggling with the big wagon so I decided to take off Vista and install a XP on it. I used a XP recovery disk from an old Acer laptop to install (do not ask any question about legality like I was asked before, I own both of them). When the small horse rebooted, Xp could not find drivers for quite a few things. I downloaded some drivers from Acer website. But I still have some troubles: No driver for camera (I downloaded but not working) No driver for network controller No driver for PCI device No drive for SM bus controller And the computer could not find wireless card so I have to use wired slot! And I only got VGA mode! Any one give some tips? Thanks a lot in advenace!