Partitioning A Windows 7 Acer Aspire Laptop To Have An XP Drive, Driver Compatibility?
Jan 23, 2013
I created a partition and installed XP on it and the game installs correctly (installation wouldn't even start on Win7) and it runs. However, the drivers I got when I bought the laptop are only compatible with Win7 (video drivers, wifi/lan drivers, the audio driver works fine on XP however).Because of this driver problem, I have no graphics driver to run the game (I know it works because I can start the game and hear the audio). I also couldn't connect to the internet to find and update drivers on that specific machine.
So I searched for them on another computer but after hours of searching, downloading and transferring the files to my Acer, failed to find any compatible with XP.The Acer website which I downloaded these drivers from mentions they work on XP in the description but they wouldn't install, giving the error 'not support on this operating system' or similar.FYI the hardware for the drivers I needed were: - Lite-on Wireless LAN 3rd WiFi BGN Atheros HB97 (OR Broadcom LAN BCM57780 for ethernet connection)- Intel VGA Chip UMAHas
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"The driver for Base System Device is not installed. Install the latest driver for the device."
This is message I'm getting. I can find 3 "Base System Device" in Device Manager, but I have no idea what devices they are so I can't search for drivers.
Here are the Hardware Ids if that's any help
Device 1
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2382&SUBSYS_01671025&REV_00
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2382&SUBSYS_01671025
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2382&CC_088000
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2382&CC_0880
Device 2
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2383&SUBSYS_01671025&REV_00
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2383&SUBSYS_01671025
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2383&CC_088000
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2383&CC_0880
Device 3
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2384&SUBSYS_01671025&REV_00
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2384&SUBSYS_01671025
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2384&CC_088000
PCIVEN_197B&DEV_2384&CC_0880
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