Acer 5720 Travelmate and XP repeated blue screen so I removed the HDD to replace with 500 GB Western Digital and installed Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit: same problem would not install beyond writing the Registry and searching for Drivers
Thinking the Blue Screen problem was likely to be caused by Device drivers, I heard of a tip to enter Device Manager in the uncompleted installation by using shift F10 to bring up the DOS PROMPT and typing <COMPMGMTLAUNCHER> This only worked after the blue screen appeared then closed very rapidly, then waiting for Windows to start up again and produce an error notice. At that moment I had to get the promt up and carry out all the foregoing, then I disabled 8 or more devices with warning triangles. However the screen continued to appear. So after two days of many similar attempts and also completely failing to install fresh drivers, I decided I would instead do a new installation of XP Pro so I did a low level format of the disk with Hirens Boot CD then wrote a new partition and formatted that but Win XP Pro now rejects the Disk. Could it be that the BIOS is needs updating, the existing is Version 1436 KBC Version 02.36. Acer don’t support after 2008 for this Acer manufactured 07/10/12 Can anyone throw some light on this please.
I need to know how and when to install the drivers from the Acer website and about the size of partitons for the XP.
Thinking the Blue Screen problem was likely to be caused by Device drivers, I heard of a tip to enter Device Manager in the uncompleted installation by using shift F10 to bring up the DOS PROMPT and typing <COMPMGMTLAUNCHER> This only worked after the blue screen appeared then closed very rapidly, then waiting for Windows to start up again and produce an error notice. At that moment I had to get the promt up and carry out all the foregoing, then I disabled 8 or more devices with warning triangles. However the screen continued to appear. So after two days of many similar attempts and also completely failing to install fresh drivers, I decided I would instead do a new installation of XP Pro so I did a low level format of the disk with Hirens Boot CD then wrote a new partition and formatted that but Win XP Pro now rejects the Disk. Could it be that the BIOS is needs updating, the existing is Version 1436 KBC Version 02.36. Acer don’t support after 2008 for this Acer manufactured 07/10/12 Can anyone throw some light on this please.
I need to know how and when to install the drivers from the Acer website and about the size of partitons for the XP.