Running (Ran) Vista on a 5672

A while back I installed Vista Premium RC1 on my 5672. I ran fairly well, but there were several issues. The camera did not work, but I expected that. There was an unknown device in the device manager and a storage controller was in device manager needing a driver. The hard drives, CD, etc ran fine. I also has a problem with the headphone jack, sound out of the speakers...plug in headphones, no sound, unplug headphones...still no sound. I went back to a saved image of XP Pro.

I work at Microsoft and use the laptop to work at home on occasion. We have been asked to run Vista RTM so I loaded it onto the 5672 expecting better results. No joy, same headphone jack issue (which went away when I switched back to XP). Same three issues in the device manager…camera, storage controller and unknown device. Beside these issues Vista worked well. I went once more back to my saved XP Pro image.

I do not blame Vista or the laptop. I think I just need to wait for Acer to release Vista drivers. I sure do hope that they support this laptop since it has two stickers on it mentioning Vista support. If anyone knows of a source for Vista drivers I would appreciate it.

One funny thing...Here at Microsoft we are all being asked to run Vista on our desktops. They want to perform a building power usage study to see if Vista uses less power as they expect it will.

 

I am runing vista rtm on Acer Aspire everything expect for video issue on boot every thing woks you need to use some drivers from xp to get it going

infrared use the xp drivers off acer site

but every thing work webcam and all

camera update drives by run update drive device manger find them on net works fine

not sure what issue you talk about head phones i don,nt run them

but they is vista realtek hd audio drivers that work great

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=3&GetDown=false#High Definition Audio Codecs

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html

 

I had everything working on Vista on the 5672 back on build 5384... the included HD Audio drivers are horrible -- you need the audio codec manufacturer's drivers to get decent functionality. This driver didn't show up until after beta 2 (I think it appeared on pre-RC1 builds).

This is true for many HD Audio devices that work under the included driver -- even the XP drivers usually work better.

 

Ok, I guess I'll take another trip down Vista lane. I still don't see how to get around the storage controller issue in the device manager and as far as I can tell Intel does not have a chipset driver and the XP one will not install.

 

Let me know if you get issue with display on fristed boot be black and have push power botton to log off desktop then push botton wake back up?

 

Intel Vista Drivers

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2277

 

You need to unzip your 6 in 1 card reader driver from acer then instead of running setup to install as this doesn't work go to system, device manager then right click on the storage controller (which should be the only device without a driver and have a yellow question mark next to it) and click update driver and just choose to manually install, choose the folder where you unzipped the driver and it will install it automatically. As for the audio driver you can get one for vista at realteks site: http://www.realtek.com.tw/ Click HD audio codec driver then choose the driver for vista.

 

Here is the chipset driver and yes it does work with vista as i have it installed. Vista already has perfectly fine drivers for your chipset included but this is a later driver so although not essential you might want to install it. If you download the zip version (the second one down) you will see it has vista support.
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...XP+Professional&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go!

 

Yeah it says this underneath the link for the chipset driver for you to see before download it:
OS:Windows Server* 2003, Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Windows Server* 2003 Standard Edition, Windows Server* 2003 Standard x64 Edition, Windows Vista*, Windows Vista* 64, Windows Vista* Business, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Business, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Enterprise, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Enterprise, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Basic, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Basic, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Premium, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Home Premium, 64-bit version, Windows Vista* Starter, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Ultimate, 32-bit version, Windows Vista* Ultimate, 64-bit version, Windows* 2000, Windows* XP Home Edition, Windows* XP Media Center Edition, Windows* XP Professional, Windows* XP Professional x64 Edition.

So that's your card reader, audio and chipset drivers sorted and Ati are in beta stage for the graphics drivers so use the driver that come's with Vista til the full Vista catalyst drivers are released. When they are you'll get them here: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html Hope i was of some help. All the best, Chris.

 

That's not funny, that's scary stupid.

What kind of moron came up with that idea?

First of all, you could get a promotion over that person if you let Billy-Boy know about a little thing (not so new technology, by the way) called an amp meter.

Guess what? It will tell you how much more power efficient a PC is after a Vista install. Just run your typical PC benchmark tests during the power tests on both platforms.

Then you just multiply the electricity savings of that PC by the number of PC's in the office.

Then you take those valuable results and stick them in your ear, because it's probably such a small number that no big company in their right mind would spend the money/effort to change O/S's throughout their company just to save a few pennies on electricial power. It's called a "bad ROI" in financial-speak.

Man, Microsoft is losing their way if this is what marketing/sales can come up with to sell their products...

 

http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm Drivers for touchpad

for vista

 

New Ati drivers fix video issue now all works great