Drivers - Acer Aspire 4520 + Windows 7 64bit Ultimate

armokk said:

Hi,

I've got a Acer Aspire 4520 notebook, that serves me very well.

just upgraded from 7 32bit to 7 64bit, all going smooth,

Except my co processor and a few other bits and peices aren't installed.. im missing the chipset driver... easy you say? download install it. well i wish...

Acer being useless as they are their 64bit win7 ultimate driver doesn't work. complains that it wasn't designed for the os its currently running on, it was apparently designed for windows vista. some vista drivers do work on 7 but not this one, ive even run it in compatibility mode, no success. the driver that doesn't work is located here

Code:

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/Chipset/Chipset_NVIDIA_13.11_W7x64_A.zip?acerid=633990342487895794&Step1=Notebook&Step2=Aspire&Step3=Aspire%204520&OS=701&LC=en&BC=Acer&SC=AAP_9

I need to get this installed because with no drivers it keeps blue screening feeding bad data to kernel etc.... which is understandable.

By searching google theres every driver available for the Aspire 4520 except the chipset.... has anyone else got this laptop or over come this problem?

its driving me mental that every time i get the computer doing multiple tasks i get a blue screen.

please help, there must be some way. why would they release every driver but that one?

Thanks

*EDIT*

something else that might help is a screenshot of device mananger it shows what is not installed, if i could install these even manually it would solve the issue

i have no probs with it.i'm using 32 bit.u can find here 4 the driver:

Acer Aspire 4520 4520G Windows 7 Drivers (32-bit) | GetDriver

or
Windows XP and Acer Aspire 4520 - Download Aspire 4520 Windows XP Drivers

hope this can help u....

Hi,

Guy with a colt, ill try your solution and let you know how i get on... 210mb dosen't worry me i love my 30mbit

sReKcAh hey, already discovered those pages via google been to them like 10x already.. but they are 32bit, im running 64bit... wont work (yes ive actually tried, though it is a bad idea)

had a go, solution didnt work, 610 drivers dont detect any applicable hardware. bugger

i used chipset_nvidia_5.1.2600.0131_Vistax64 which has managed to install the co-processor..

YAY!

just doing as you have suggested and downloadning and installing everything.
theres CIR device driver, dont know what that is but ill install that along with bluetooth (which im not sure if this laptop actually has) and a 56k modem driver and see how i get on

thanks mate, your being really helpfull

okay, update.... getting there, everything is finally installed. what a hassle though... acer could at least make sure there windows 7 drivers actually work before posting them.

thanks you guys for your help. hope this stops the bluesceens but i think i got one just before this post..

screen randomly went black and laptop restarted then sat there and hung till i manually turned off and powered back up. I wont count that as a bluescreen as i hadn't done a restart after installing the new drivers..

*crosses fingers*

Hi, I was having the same problem with my Acer. Acer has finally posted a driver for our chipset. I'm going to run this and see if this stops the bluescreens. Also, are you having any problems with windows update. Every time I run it, I have to use system restore to undo it. I'm hoping this was due to not having a chipset driver installed. Anyway, I hope this helps.

Ok nevermind. Now I see what you mean by the drivers not working. They should make sure that they work before posting them. So did you use the Vista x64 chipset driver from Acer? How is that going for you? Please let me know. I'll post anything new that I find.