Acer Aspire 6530G problem

ktan49 · 23 Jun 2009 at 18:38

Hi guys, I purchased a 6530G from Overclockers uk about a month ago, it came with vista premium preinstalled on the laptop, I didnt like it as I get better performance gaming using xp, so I formatted and installed xp, but now im getting random freezes and have to restart the laptop to carry on but it does this every 10 - 20minutes.

also, because I installed xp i had to find all the xp drivers for this model, so can anyone tell me what this is all about? lol
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6196/devicemanager.jpg

also in the bios the harddrive sata mode was set to AHCI but if i enable it on xp i get a BSOD, ive downloaded the drivers to sort that out but how can I if the IDE/ATA/ATAPI controllers are not named?

much appreciated

karl

FrenchTart · 23 Jun 2009 at 18:50

Save yourself the hassle and install Windows7 RC1. Works very nicely on this laptop.

ktan49 · 23 Jun 2009 at 19:05

What would I do in terms of drivers? for gfx n lan etc would xp or vista drivers be compatible with it?

ta

FrenchTart · 23 Jun 2009 at 19:53

I've installed Windows7 RC1 on my 6930G (apologies, but I read that you had this laptop, not 6530G) and it installed near enough everything without me needing to go searching for drivers.

Windows update worked to get graphics, though I got some updated mobile graphics drivers from laptopvideotgo or whatever the site is called.

edit: Vista drivers would be what you'd need if you couldn't find suitable Win7 drivers.