Update Acer Laptop Drivers

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It is best to give first priority to Acer Laptop drivers and Apps including its own Acer AMD VGA Driver which were made to be 100% compatible with your laptop and to use all of your Acer's Laptop features.

06Jun2015 - Hi to All - I am new to the Acer Community and am looking forward to asking a question or two and even answering some too. My current experience now includes running Windows 10 Preview on my Acer Aspire Laptop 5250. The new operating system is installed over top of Windows 7 Home Premium. Win10 worked perfectly (I started in May/15 so most of the bugs had been worked out) and I am really amazed at how smoothly the new Windows functionality works on the Acer's hardware. Fast too.

This brings me to why I am here now in the Acer community. I would like to check my hardware and drivers currently on this laptop since February 2012, but I cannot ask questions of the Acer staff because my laptop is now "Ancient!" and the staff are busy. Can anyone point me to a location, URL, etc where I might find hacks, updates, and notes that I could use to build my experitise on this machine. I still have my original Apple IIe, disk drives and floppies, memory cards, etc which may help to explain my focus on the past.
My experience includes a decent computer background going back to August 1963...which makes me older than a lot of dirt. I enjoy reading about computer security issues for home users and I did a stint of a couple of years in 2003 to 2006 as a help desk analyst having graduated from a community college with a very decent mark and an award. Woo! So I'm bragging, not to win any prizes, but to let you know I am serious. I want to see these awesome chunks of hardware continue as a useful addition to my collection of communications devices and help others do the same. All topics open for discussion.

Recently Microsoft released a Windows update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. It's an optional update for Windows 7 (I think). This Windows update that I'm referring to.... does a hardware and driver check on your computer. Apparently the update automatically schedules 4 tasks (in the task scheduler) that will run in the coming weeks. Most people will see a little Windows icon down in the lower right part of the screen if you installed the update.

Microsoft also released updates (through Windows update) that allow those that aren't in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Progam to activate it so that Microsoft can gather data on the drivers and hardware and work with OEMs such as Acer to try to make the transistion go as smoothly as possible. I get the feeling that a lot of people opt out of WCEIP when they first setup their computer (oops--including me) so I would imagine that Microsoft doesn't have the volume of data that it would like.

I'm running Windows 8.1, and the only problem that it reported was the Atheros Bluetooth hardware/driver. I'm not worried about as I'm sure they'll have a driver available by the time Windows 10 is released. When I used Windows 10 Technical Preview, Windows update installed most everything I needed. The rest of the drivers I was able to get from Acer downloads or directly from the component manufacturer. I'm sure in the coming weeks, they'll update to the appropriate drivers.

If you need help getting Windows 7 back on your computer, I'm sure someone will steer you in the right direction. There's been a lot of folks on this forum that have had difficulty getting back to Windows 7 or Windows 8 after they installed Windows 10 techincal preview. Conventional restore methods haven't worked. For example, I tried to revert back to Windows 8.1 using a backup image. No cigars. Then I tried to use my Factory default USB backup. Again, no cigars. So I had to get creative.

In this case, we tried to replicate the issue in our Intel labs but did not get the same outcome, we were not able to replicate the problem. From our side, we can confirm there is not a bug like this reported on our database, and the drivers don't seem to be the issue.

You mentioned that his issue doesn't occur with the OEM drivers and that you have no problems installing them, so we recommend those, especially for a laptop since they were tested, validated, and customized by the manufacturer of the computer.

If you must install the latest generic drivers, then the next thing we recommend to try is a clean installation of the Operating System to discard a corruption in the OS side with the Intel generic drivers.

It is worth mentioning that the driver or software for your Intel component might have been changed or replaced by the computer manufacturer (OEM). OEM drivers are handpicked and include customized features and solutions to platform-specific issues. In this case, we would like to recommend a clean installation of the graphics driver using the OEM driver from Acer* to discard driver-related issues.

Also, so we can understand better the scenario, in case the system works fine with the ACER* OEM driver but you still want to install the Intel generic drivers, please let us know if there is any particular reason why you are interested in using these drivers. For instance, do you have any other issues with the ACER* OEM driver that is not present with the generic drivers?

And about your question:
I don't recall having any problems with the OEM driver, I just had always been accustomed to using the latest available version of the generic drivers and had never had any failures. So I wanted to know if there was a bug with the latest versions or was it because of some other kind of problem peculiar to my laptop.

Miguel from Mexico, I bought a Lenovo Yoga 7i last year with this Iris Xe graphics in the USA, kind of similar story as @Daiv05, my computer was working just fine, then I updated automatically with the latest drivers and things started to happen, now my computer did show a black screen. A second monitor was running fine, I even use Ubuntu in the same computer and it was working fine. The issue starts when Windows starts running, black screen. Glad I found this thread and downloaded the Lenovo GVA driver and back to service without issues.

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I am attempting to image some Acer Travelmate laptops with Win 7. These originally came with Win 7 were reimaged with XP. When pxe booting I get the message that the correct driver is not on the pxe server. I have injected every broadcom driver that is listed for this laptop. Both XP and 7. Still get the message. Flashed BIOS. I need some help please.

I had something similar a long time ago on a older Dell. i am having hard time remembering the details. Check the BIOS and make sure the NIC is enabled. are you pulling the drivers form BRoadcom or from ACER, or have you tried both?

Yes, nic is enabled in BIOS. Flashed BIOS to see if that helped as it has with others in the past. Did not help this time. I pulled the driver from Acer, which only lists 1 lan driver. Tried Broadcom, had 3 possible drivers depending on chipset which I am unsure which chipset the Acer uses. Actually tried 3 drivers sets, both XP and 7. Injected all drivers into the .wim.

It is must to stay up with the updated Acer Drivers for Windows 10 so as to keep your system running great and avoid system crashes. Driver updates fix the driver conflict issues with all the devices and enhance the performance of your PC.

Be very careful when you update Acer drivers for Windows 10 on your system as the drivers for the other operating system like Win8, Win7 or WinXP may not be compatible with the Win 10. Please make sure to upgrade the BIOS before upgrade to Windows 10

This can cause errors or conflicts like no sound from the Acer laptop, Acer wireless not working, Acer driver service not available. So, be ready to update the latest Windows 10 Acer drivers.

You can download or reinstall the drivers from the website or the original discs. This can automate your driver update and ensure that the right driver is installed for your Windows 10 system. You can visit here for list of Windows 10 compatible Acer models.

Before you start to download acer drivers for windows 10 , it is recommended that you create a restore point. It is sometimes likely that you may face certain driver concerns after updating them. Thus, by creating a restore point, you can bring back the system settings to the point where the computer was working well.

Driver Restore, is a drivers update software that can check all the missing or outdated drivers and will upgrade your system with the new drivers in just few clicks. This software tool has a professional free version to update the acer drivers.

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