Acer Aspire 5570Z laptop came with Vista Basic (which is horrible), so I installed XP Pro on new partition. Unfortunately Acer doesn't seem to offer much for drivers or support of the 5570Z model. Now the laptop boots directly to XP. I installed the 5570 (no z) drivers for XP and most of them work, however the Audio (RealTek Audio) is screwed up. It seems to work for a few minutes after boot, and then dies. Also, Win Media Player doesn't work and alerts no valid audio drivers.
The Acer tech actually said that the 5570Z doesn't support XP...can you believe that? They are selling laptops that don't even have support for XP. So, when you go to Acer for 5570Z drivers, they don't have any.
Any ideas on the Audio problems?
Also, I saw a tool for dual booting Vista and XP, when Vista is factory installed, but can't remember where it was. Anybody know where it is?

go to the realtek homepage and get the correct ones there. (ps find out if u have HD or '97 audio) install reboot and should work fine
"acer152"

Have tried downloading and installing the XP version of the drivers from RealTek? realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=6&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
Steve Easton
"acer152"

"acer152" wrote

Post to an XP newsgroup for help with XP issues. Several laptop manufacturers are making new laptops but not making XP drivers for them, so Acer's lack of XP support for this model is not, per se, unusual. If there are no drivers for it, then you can't run XP on it.
As to the dual boot, maybe you're thinking of VistaBootPro. See this link. It's not going to help you resolve the lack of XP drivers.
pro-networks.org/forum/about88924.html&sid=4d74351046374ca79e6dd6090b0bd9a2
There are a variety of ways to dual boot Vista and XP. Here is another suggestion. bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Believe it or not, Acer Support told me that the 5570Z does not support anything other than Vista. Can you believe that? They actually make a computer that has no drivers for XP.
Unfreakin'believable...

"aaron"

Drivers for Windows XP are an integrated part of OS, which you're about to install after you delete the Vista from your Acer laptop. There will be NO any drivers on the laptop until you install another OS. In this case Windows XP.

"aaron" wrote

That's not surprising or unusual. Other manufacturers are putting out new computers, particularly laptops, but not supporting them in XP. That's were doing a bit of research before hand is important.
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

"Jdr" wrote

Yes some drivers are includined with the OS, but not for all hardware. And this is especially a consideration for new hardware which was not in existence when XP was released. Laptops are particularly proprietary, and need drivers from the manufacturer. What the OP is experiencing is not unusual. There are other manufacturer's who have new hardware for which they are not providing XP drivers.
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]