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Originally Posted by zaibatsu2000
Hello folks,
I bought a new Acer Aspire 5920G last week and it came installed with Windows Vista Home Premium OEM version. First of all, I would like to tell you guys that it works great and I am happy with the "notebook".
What I actually mean is that I am only happy with the notenook and not the OS. Seriously, Vista sucks! Its not compatible with softwares, its memory-hungry, it uses like 700MB of RAM continuously and uses over 6GB for installation. People are going for compact things and MS is going the other way.
Well, let me come down to the problem. I wanted to downgrade Vista to XP so I tried the original way by inserting a bootable disc and booting with it. The setup stopped right before its supposed to display the partitioning options saying that it did not detect the HDD. Therefore, I read up the articles on the internet which suggested that a slipstreamed disc would help as I do not have a floppy drive. I did as the guide said and was able to continue with the setup.
The setup brought up the partition information and I deleted all the partitions on my HDD and created a new partition with sufficient space. The setup continued and installed the initial files. It then reboots the OS and instead of running the setup again, asks me to chose from one of the following:
Run windows normally
Safe mode
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with (something)
Last best known configuration
Now, no matter what I chose, it gives that scary blue screen that windows 98 always used to show up. It then restarts by itself and gives me the above menu again.
So can you experts please help me out and tell me how to get Windows XP running on my notebook. Also, can you guys tell me if all the drivers are compatible with Windows XP.
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I think there's a Normal Boot Up or Start up instead of safe mode. Try select that option. Or try out the rest. I can't remember my friend choose which option already. But same like you, I bought the 5920G and it was great, except for the Vista that sucks. However, let me advise you for a few things. After downgrade to WinXP, there will be some driver that will have 'Exclamation Mark'. That of course include 'Base System Device' which is under Other Devices. Till now, ACER does not have the driver for posting... They won't be able to sent you via email or what too as the files are too big for emailing. So, you need to know what the driver is 1st. Secondly, the sound system will not be as good as in Vista. If you notice, the sound system is quite good with the built in speaker and sub-woofer with vista. But after downgrading, the sound system is not that good anymore. And remember to do an e-recovery for future upgrading back to Vista. As ACER claims that the warranty covers HARDWARE, and not SOFTWARE. Hence, if you thinking of getting ACER help to upgrade back to Vista, it's not possible. This my advise and 'experience'... =D