Acer won't give you the drivers for Vista, unfortunately. If you buy a PC with Vista, the XP drivers don't usually exist, for the simple reason that the PC was only ever built to run vista. best thing you can do is look up all the components it uses and go to the relevant manufacturer's website.
Originally posted by sammorris:Acer won't give you the drivers for XP, unfortunately. If you buy a PC with Vista, the XP drivers don't usually exist, for the simple reason that the PC was only ever built to run vista. best thing you can do is look up all the components it uses and go to the relevant manufacturer's website.
The manufacturer's website does not really help.
I have investigated which chipsets are used by the Acer M3610 and finally figured out how to make it run under XP:
If during the installation the automated Hardware Recognition pops up, have the updates installed through the Internet.
This will happen several times, sometimes without success, accordingly.
Nevertheless after a reboot you should be able to enjoy the sound capatibilities.
5. If it does not work, try this:
Download
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/desktop/aspire_m3100/driver/ATI.zip
unzip the file, goto the contained SBDRV directory
and execute the Setup program in there.
(The SBDRV directory is the only one needed in this big download,
but I don't know another location than this ATI.zip)
Again, let the Hardware Recognition have it's job done, if required.
After a reboot it should work.
Don't care if the Device Manager still shows devices will yellow questionmarks. Try if you can hear the sound anyway.
