Installation of XP on Acer laptop

[rk82]

Hi All,

This is the first time i am using this forum.I have a issue discussed as below.

I have Acer Aspire 4270 laptop (pre-installed with Linux), bought a year back. I got Windows Xp (SP 2) installed onto that by the shopkeeper. Now that I am installing Windows XP (SP 2) by myself, I am getting a lot of issue. These are summed as below:

1. Problem finding the LAN, Audio, Graphics/chipset drivers on internet.

2. I installed Audio driver (Z01-Audio_XP Vista-v5423whql <-- for Vista) and its working fine. Also I downloaded a LAN driver (working fine). But could not find any graphics driver.

Main Issue

3. After performing above stuff, when I create a new folder, I cannot rename it. When I try to delete it, it does NOT gets deleted but in turn creates a new folder with the name "New Folder(1)" or (2) like that.

I have tried formatting the entire hard disk and installed XP 2-3 times, still no luck.

5. Internet is working fine but cannot take backup of my stuff as same kind of problem occurs in anything I connect to my laptop.

I am really getting frustrated with the issue.

Is this issue because of a wrong driver???

Any help in this regard would be very appreciable.

Thanks..

RK

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Welcome to the Windows Forum.

Driver issues are easiest resolved with http://www.drivermax.com/; see if you still have issues after installing the correct and latest drivers.

Before doing so, try to update to SP3.

I will move this topic to the main Windows support forum.

[njwoods]

hello all,

Well, this is great information to remember---thanks.

I know that I need some driver updates too and I had for gotten the best place to look for them. I do have to wonder at some of these programs that check your machine to see what drivers are out of date----they come up with dozens. Then it turns out that you do not need a lot of them in any case.

[whansen02]

hey RK82, any luck?

Reading your post I began to wonder if it's a driver issue at all?

Not that I'm an expert, but I thought that if an incorrect driver was installed, you'd either get an error msg, or the unit the driver is for wouldn't work.

Hmmmm.....

[Dencandy]

If I've understood your main issue correctly, you're saying that you cannot delete files, is that right?

First of all check that you are using an Administrator account when you try to delete. (Go to Control Panel > User Accounts & check the type of account you are in). If you are using a Limited account, this may be why you can't delete certain files.

Is your Recycle bin installed properly? Do you have the Recycle bin icon on the desktop and is there anything in it, such as the files you've tried to delete?

There's some advice from Microsoft about problems with not being able to use the delete command HERE. But it's very complex so try the above ideas first & come back to the forum with the results.

In most cases lack of up-to-date drivers shouldn't prevent things working as Windows will use it's own in-built default drivers. You can see if all your devices are functioning properly by looking at Device Manager. Just open Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager. Any device that's not working properly, due for example to absence of a driver, will have a little "!" next to it. You can worry about getting more up-to-date drivers later.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I do not quite know why we keep discussing this topic; the original poster didn't bother to come back after his/her post.