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Acer Aspire 4920, Problems?

My Superior had just bought a new notebook, and he choose it because of my recommendation on last Wednesday, without any Operating System, because it so very hard to find a new notebook with a Windows XP preinstalled these days. So then, he bought an Acer Aspire 4920-5A0516Mi.
As the one who recommend it to him, I should be responsible to make everything alright for him to use the notebook.. at least to install Windows XP, drivers and everything.

From my experience, new non-Operating System notebooks need an application to start the fresh windows installation. And i have already had the “f6″ application, so there will be no problems on it. So, no problems at all when I installing the fresh Windows XP on it. You may download it from here (installation file) or here (after installation files), remember, You need a healthy Floppy disk drive, and of course the disk.

The next steps are installing the drivers.. It wasn’t a hard thing to do, because in the selling-package the drivers - for both Vista and XP - are included. So easy, isn’t it?

As what I always did, I start the chipset installation, and then the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface), VGA, and finally the Sound system…. ups… here comes the problem… No Sound comes out from the speaker!!
well… I was guessing that it will solved when i finished all the drivers installation, and i then continued to the other things until i found that when i need to restart the notebook, it couldn’t goes off… wow… two major problems for these nice-look notebook.

Start again with another fresh Windows XP.
Still having the same problems. ups.. so it wasn’t the software problems…. hmmm… was it a hardware problems? I couldn’t make a conclusion yet…
Try and search trough the famous uncle google all yesterday afternoon and found ZERO result. Try to find some help, and download some drivers from Microsoft or directly from Acer it self, return with another big Zero…

Here are the specification of the notebook:

Intel 945PM Chipset
Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 (1.83 GHz, FSB 667, Chace 2MB)
512MB DDR2 (upgradeable to 4 GB on 2 DIMMs)
VGA Intel GMA X3100 128 MB (Integrated 384MB/shared)
14.1″ WXGA TFT with 1280 x 800 maximum resolution (CrystalBrite)
Realtek (HD) Audio
160GB 5400 RPM Hitachi HDD
DVD±RW
Conexant 56K Integrated Modem, GbE Integrated NIC
IntelPRO/Wireless 3945ABG, Bluetooth
Crystal Eye Camera
ExpressCard/54, Integrated Card Reader (SD, MMC, MS/MS Pro, xD-Picture Card)
4x USB 2.0, Firewire, VGA, LAN, Audio (Mic, Line in, Line Out)

I found something on yahoo answer that the Realtek High Definition Audio is not supported by a x32 operating system… do you mean I got to install a 64-bit of Windows XP or even a brand new looking good Windows Vista?
No.. not yet and thank you very much… there must be a way to solve this problem. but how?
And another thing that I found is that the driver for the webcam
doesn’t work at all and the “suyin” driver will only make our notebook
will not goes off when we shut it down.

After doing another research with the help of my uncle google, I found a little light from the largest Indonesian community… you know it.. and it was a weird way to install a computer (PC or notebook), but then i ask my self why did I never thought that way of troubleshooting?

The first thing to do after installing a fresh Windows XP SP2 on Acer Aspire 4920 (especially acer notebooks with the same spec) is installing the sound driver form here, without ejecting the Windows XP CD from the optical drive, and just sit back and relax, don’t do anything until it really finished and ask to restart the system. Then it’s our choice whether we want to restart on not.
On that community, I found that the next thing he will do is installing the webcam driver -”suyin”. But after several time trying, it will failed. Because that driver is really a trash. DON’T EVER install that “suyin” driver, just skip it. So, BEFORE YOU INSTALLING ANYTHING ELSE, we should continue to the Chipset installation, use the XP driver instead of the Vista, because it could make the system crashed (I face this last night). After that, it’s all up to you.
Last night (which is success) the steps are : Launch Manager (drivers DVD - XP), AHCI (drivers DVD - XP), VGA-Intel (drivers DVD - XP), Touchpad (drivers DVD - XP), LAN (download here, don’t use the one from the installation DVD), Card Reader (drivers DVD - XP), Acer Launch Application Fix (download here), Modem (Automatic install from Windows XP), Wireless (XP-iProDifx driver), and the last one is Bluetooth (drivers DVD - XP).
And…. finished!! yes!!!
Don’t forget to backup the final installation (i.e. Norton Ghost), because it wont be easy to do everything again. And it would be a great idea to create a RESTORE POINT after each hardware installation… if anything we don’t like happens.. just go back to the last good state of our Windows.

well… that’s it.. after 2 days I finally solved that problems.
I hope this post could do some help for everyone who face the same problem as I did.

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