First Method on Acer 5315 Drivers for Win Xp

Acer 5315 Drivers for Win Xp

First Method on Acer 5315 Drivers for Win Xp

The Floppy Method on Acer 5315 Drivers for Win Xp

1- Please download the floppy creator.
2- Then extract the executable from the zip archive, insert a blank floppy, and run the executable, following the prompts to create an “F6 Driver Floppy.”
3- After that attach your USB floppy drive to the new Acer notebook.
4- In order to be able to boot from the CD, we need to make a couple of quick changes in the notebook’s BIOS.


Modifying the BIOS Settings

Firstly,shut the notebook completely down. Now turn it back on, and as soon as the Acer screen comes up, hit the “F2″ key to enter the BIOS. Navigate to the second page of the BIOS (titled “Main”) by pressing the right arrow key.

You may wish to turn of “Network Boot” by selecting it with your arrow keys and hitting enter, then changing it to disabled. This is often used in a cluster-lab environment, and for normal users only slows down your boot process.

You must now turn on the F12 Boot Menu by selecting it with your arrow keys, hitting Enter, and changing it to “Enabled”

Now switch to the “Exit” page, and hit Enter to “Exit Saving Changes”. The BIOS will ask you to confirm, tell it “Yes”.

Now the notebook will reboot, and you must hit F12 to boot from your CD.

On the “Boot Manager” screen, chose the second option which should be an ATAPI drive, such as a DVD-RW or CD-RW, highlight it with your arrow keys and press Enter.


5- Now boot your notebook from your WinXP install disk(acer 5315 drivers for win xp). One of the first prompts once the screen turns blue is to hit F6 to use a driver floppy.
6- Hit F6, insert the driver floppy. Windows won’t really give you any prompt that you’ve done things right, it will just keep installing for a while. After some time, windows will ask you to pick which driver off of the floppy you want — you should choose “Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M).” Be sure to leave the floppy in during the install, as windows will periodically pull files off of it until the installation is complete.
7- The Windows installer will ask you to where you’d like install Windows XP… follow the prompts to delete all the current partitions, then follow the prompts to create a new partition, and install Windows XP to that. You may chose the “quick format” to speed things up.
8- After windows is done installing, you’ll need to install some drivers. Acer isn’t providing a driver set for WinXP on this notebook.

We recommend installing drivers in this order:

1. Realtek HD Audio Driver
2. Intel Chipset Driver
3. Intel Graphics Driver
4. Atheros WiFi Driver
5. Broadcom Ethernet Driver
6. Launch Manager
7. Touchpad Driver
8. Acer Empowering Framework
9. Acer ePower Management

(Remember that these are specific to the Acer 5315 Drivers for Win Xp)

The Broadcom drivers must be installed through the device manager, the rest have installation executables which should be used. Sometimes you have to have windows “Update Driver” on an unknown PCI device in order to get the Realtek to work.

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