ALL: Notebook

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Satellite A60 Notebook Computer

Desktop performance doesn't have to leave you deskbound. This cool, blue Satellite A60 delivers powerful mobility, offering users high-performance mobile processing power, industry-leading video graphics capabilities, integrated communication and connectivity features, as well as multimedia for work or play. Users can run demanding software applications, access e-mail, surf the Internet and back up critical data with ease. What's more, music, video clips and DVDs will look and sound great.

How To Install Acer Aspire (4310, 4710 or 4710z) using windows XP OS

I Have a friend on my office. He was buy new Acer Aspire 4710z Notebook. He has some problem about install Windows XP OS. So I tried to help him.

Acer Aspire 4710 or 4710z was designed for Windows Vista, A have no problem when installing Windows Vista Home Premium on this gemstone laptop, but when i tried to install Windows XP on it, this laptop cannot detect the harddrive ! After googling I found tutorial from Acer philippines (Download here) and download the SATA driver here but in this tutorial we need usb floppy drive, its hard to find usb floppy drive for me. - I want to install Windows XP without Floppy drive...

You can install windows XP on Acer Aspire 4710 or 4710z without USB floppy drive, just include the SATA driver to your Windows XP CD using nLite

Download nLite here...
Download SATA driver here...

nLite is a tool for permanent Windows components removal and pre-installation Windows configuration. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines.
With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on cd, the unwanted components.

Features

Service Pack Integration
Component Removal
Unattended Setup
Driver Integration * (we need this)
Hotfixes Integration **
Tweaks
Services Configuration
Patches ***
Bootable ISO creation

Read nLite guides here ...
on guide part2 your screen must look like this :

Locate driver and select "Textmode",
then select "Intel(R) 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M/DH)"

keep follow the guides ... and from nLite select direct burn to blank CD to build your new Windows XP CD with built in Acer Aspire 4710 SATA driver :) tested and 100% working!

need driver for Acer Aspire 4710 ? click here (Win XP and Vista)