Need Drivers For Acer Aspire 5050

[Delta6]

Thanks for taking the time to read this! first off i need drivers for an acer aspire 5050-3371 laptop in general i need a sound driver and that seems to be it. the driver on the acer site say's that it is only made for vista or lower so what can i do??

Thanks again for your time

 

[Casca]

Vista drivers, typically, work fine in Win7.

 

[manjunath]

vista drivers are 100% compatable with 7.use them..

 

[Casca]

vista drivers are 100% compatable with 7.use them..

Not 100%, but close. ATI TV tuners as an example.

 

[Delta6]

OK

But every time i go to use the realtek audio drivers for vista it says "only windows 2000,XP, 2003 and Vista is supported in this driver package" ??????

 

[Casca]

Extract the driver to a folder. Install through Device Manager.

 

[Delta6]

just went to realtek site and got drivers but still no sound how do i test to make sure it is a driver problem and not a hardware one? (this a laptop i got off of a guy so i know nothing about it)

 

[Casca]

Does Device Manager show the device as properly installed? Does the Volume icon show a playback device? Are all the volume controls adjusted, esp the volume wheel/slider on the laptop?

 

[Delta6]

seems as every things is as you have mentioned although when i hit the mute button the internal speakers make a little pop sound. i have also tried using head phone but to no avail. thank a lot for your help

 

[Delta6]

also all it has under device manager is realtek high def audio device nothing else. is this ok as i have seen cases where there are 5 different things under the sound tab

 

[Delta6]

here is the driver version of the one i got from RealTek- 6.0.1.6083

 

[Casca]

The driver from Acer is DriverVer=12/01/2006, 6.0.1.5334

 

[Delta6]

Okay now i got the drivers from acer and have version 6.0.1.5334 but still no sound!!!

When i start it up and plug in the head phone i hear static....

 

[Casca]

We have reached the limit of my usefulness in this matter.

 

[Saubha82]

A Windows 7 (32/64 bit) driver package is available on the RealTek website. This should install without problems and should work well. I believe this is what I used when I upgraded my Aspire 5050 to Windows 7 Ultimate x64. It is the first file listed when you pull up the url below, and it gives you the option of three different mirrors where you may download the file. This should work for you, let me know!

RealTek Audio Drivers for Windows 7 (32/64 bit)