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by chester peterson

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I have a Acer extensa 500T running windows 95.
It has just had a fresh install of Win 95 and I dont have the drivers for graphics, sound or modem. I downloaded these drivers from the net from a few different sites on another PC. I copied these drivers and tried to install on laptop but none of them seem to work.
Any ideas would be gratefull.

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by wcp

Go to www.acer.com and select Support&Downloads. From Downloads, select North America (or your region). Select Notebook and then Extensa 500 Series and you have all your drivers.

by wcp

Unzipped files may not contain any .exe files. From the Device Manager, highlight the device that needs driver, either reinatll or update the driver by pointing to the folder where the unzipped files are stored.

by joe

Sometimes the drivers are not executable. Put the driver in a temp folder and make sure they are extracted, than go to the device manager and choose the hardware you want to update, than go to drivers and when it asks you for the location of the drivers, point it to the folder where you saved the drivers to. HTH

by qballrail

Installing the correct drivers is always the best course of action. That in no way is meant to imply you didn't. There is a possibility that Acer no longer supports W95. Perhaps what you installed were the 98 drivers instead. In any case, try downloading again to your laptop, and reinstalling. However, I would recommend going to acer.com, selecting Support and navigating to downloads & drivers and downloading drivers from there. If you find proprietary drivers elsewehre, in many cases they are merely rip-offs of the original. My best recommendation is to get them directly from acer.com.

I've noticed that Acer, Compaq & Gateway are troublesome unless you install the OEM (factory) discs in some cases. One maker is the exception, HP. Just be advised that you might not be able to do this. Another thought, take the bundled drivers off the recovery discs (if any). All makers vary so you may need to browse the disc to locate them.

Good Luck!

by chester peterson

I have downloaded the drivers from Acer.com a few times. When I run the download it goes to ms dos and copies files to floppy (no choice). When open contents of floppy using winzip, there are no exe files in there??
Help

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