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carlangas · May 12th, 2008

Hi Ryan,

I bought an acer a while back and had a similar problem, I did however managed to install xp64 but only after doing a lot of reading on my own and getting drivers from different websites because acer did not have any for XP 64bit. Acer customer service is the worst ive experienced. im no expert on this but it may help you install your 64 bit vista. you have to find the 64bit drivers for the SATA harddrive first so you can clean install your 64bit vista. I think acer does have those drivers on their website. not sure how it is with a vista install but in xp when you insert the install cd you press f10 at the install scereen and wait till it prompts you to provide new drivers via floppy in which case you would have to install yourself (my aspire came floppyless). after it takes your new SATA drivers it will hopefully go on with the rest of the install. you might want to consider getting xp64 rather than vista though.. im happy with my current setup, this pc is very very stable with xp64 and 6gb ram.

good luck

May 12th, 2008	#3 (permalink)
carlangas Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Quintana Roo Posts: 291 Name: Carlos Sánchez	Re: Vista 32 to Vista 64? Hi Ryan, I bought an acer a while back and had a similar problem, I did however managed to install xp64 but only after doing a lot of reading on my own and getting drivers from different websites because acer did not have any for XP 64bit. Acer customer service is the worst ive experienced. im no expert on this but it may help you install your 64 bit vista. you have to find the 64bit drivers for the SATA harddrive first so you can clean install your 64bit vista. I think acer does have those drivers on their website. not sure how it is with a vista install but in xp when you insert the install cd you press f10 at the install scereen and wait till it prompts you to provide new drivers via floppy in which case you would have to install yourself (my aspire came floppyless). after it takes your new SATA drivers it will hopefully go on with the rest of the install. you might want to consider getting xp64 rather than vista though.. im happy with my current setup, this pc is very very stable with xp64 and 6gb ram. good luck __________________ Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Last edited by carlangas; May 12th, 2008 at 01:52 PM.