Acer 5100 vista driver

Hello,guys,

I'v been using my acer 5100-5830 (TL50, 2G, 120G PATA) for about 2 years now, I'v been pretty happy with the laptop except for maybe the relatively slow 4200rpm HD. Now I am getting a new laptop and I am sening 5100 to my parents.

I only use XP media center on 5100 till now, but I plan to install windows vista ultimate (I have a legit version) on it before giving it to my parents, part of the reason is that my parents can not read English but I can change the display language in vista ultimate, I do have a vista upgrade CD from Acer but it is still sealed but I am not sure if I can change the display language in a home premium version of vista.

Ok, too much background, my main question is "is that very easy to find all the vista drivers for this laptop?" I am worried about all kinds of problems I may encountered with vista installations.

Another question is about the vista upgrade CD, is that locked to this particular laptop. I mean can I use it in another PC, or only this one, or only an acer branded laptop? I don't want to waste the CD since I paid for it.

Thanks all.
rivet

 

Vista drivers are easy to find:

Drivers: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5100/vista/Drivers/
Applications: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5100/vista/Applications/

What Vista CD do you have? Anytime upgrade or you bought it from Acer for Aspire 5100? If you got it from Acer you probably got recovery cds which only work with specific model, in your case - Aspire 5100.

 

I got it from Acer from their vista upgrade program ( I bought the Acer laptop new with windows XP at the time that vista has been in new laptops, they offer free vista upgrade except pay shipping and handing) , so likely only be able to use on this particular computer? , the
drive disk looks like a regular upgrade CD from Microsoft though. Thanks.

By the way, if I use a different version of XP, say a chinese version, can I still use the COA from the laptop to make the version a legit OS. Thanks guys.