Unfortunately you'll need to do this whenever you restart the laptop (every time you want to run a game, of course).Canon provides Windows 10 drivers for a number of their printer, scanner, and multi-function devices via Canon Support.
To correct this, you need to go to Catalyst Control Center and change the Panel Settings to "Scale image - full panel size" in Notebook Panel Properties. With Windows 7 you'll notice that games and programs will run faster than in other OS, but i found a little problem with games (with modded 9.11 mobility catalyst drivers), when you run a game with a lower resolution than 1680x1050 or change the resolution in Windows, the display will not fit the screen.
I hope that someone mod this bios to unlock the advanced options. Yes, the laptop runs well with the RAM at 333 MHz. This action will create a temporary folder that has the drivers (if you want to create a backup of it).Īs i said early, the 333 MHz is the max speed of the RAM, unless you have 400 MHz but to use this clock you need to overclock the laptop by software.
This will install the correct drivers for your laptop. If you want the last bluetooth drivers, you need to go to WIDCOMM home page, download the software updater, and run it. Great laptop, Acer could improve in some areas though. The sad thing is I have the same problem again, just don’t really want to pay £100+ to get the laptop fixed again. I guess that’s my fault though as I never took out the extended warranty. I was never told on the phone I would be billed for them sending the laptop back to me. At least with Windows 7 proper working drivers are on Windows Update.Īcers after care service leaves something to be desired too, it cost me over £100 to a new exhaust fan and cpu cooler fitted in the laptop.Īnd some other charge I don’t remember now. I had to resort to using a program called mobility modder which modified the drivers for desktop pc’s to work with laptops. Same with drivers, Acer never bothered to work with ATI to get the mobility drivers certified for Acer laptops so I was never able to download any official drivers for Vista.
That’s about it, if anyone has any questions feel free to ask.Ĭlick to expand.Acer have your money, I don’t think they can care less now sadly.
It might be worth mentioning I upgraded the laptops 1gb of ram to 2gb when I got Vista but by all accounts Windows 7 works perfectly with just 1gig of ram.įor a 4 year old laptop it handles Windows 7 perfectly, I really wouldn’t worry about having to upgrade to a new laptop to run Windows 7. When I got the laptop in 2005 the battery lasted for around 3 hours 15 mins, it now lasts for about 15mins if I’m lucky.Ĭompared to Windows Vista SP2 the laptop feels so much more responsive with Windows 7 installed, I’m sure you will notice a significant speed improvement. Something I quite liked in Windows 7 was the fact it can detect your battery has had it and you need a new one.
If you have had Vista installed on the laptop you will notice the Windows experience rating is exactly the same. Right click on the card reader or unknown device and click update drivers, point it to the folder you unzipped the drivers to and they will install. To install: unzip the drivers then go to device manager (click the windows logo in the bottom left, right click on computer, click properties then device manager in the top left) The only thing you won’t have drivers installed for after a Windows Update is the card reader, don’t worry though the Windows XP drivers for the card reader work perfectly fine in Windows 7.ĭownload 32bit card reader drivers for Windows 7ĭownload 64bit card reader drivers for Windows 7 Everything really does work out the box, Windows 7 has drivers for most of hardware in the laptop and anything it doesn’t have drivers for can be simply downloaded and installed by doing a Windows Update. You shouldn’t have any problems getting the 32bit or 64bit version of Windows 7 running on the laptop, unlike with Windows Vista you don’t need to install hacked graphics / chipset drivers to get the laptop to successfully go to sleep and resume from sleep or hibernation. I could just write it’s the best thing you could do for your Ferrari 4000 and it would be true, but I’ll go in to a bit more detail than that Before going ahead and installing Windows 7 on my Ferrari 4000 I did a quick Google search to see if anyone else had already done so, I couldn’t find anything so I thought I would write a post up about my experience and hopefully answer any questions some on looking in the future might have.