Just upgrading Vista to Windows 7 on Acer TravelMate 4220 laptop, ones get no sound heard through the laptop. As it rather hard to find sound driver for his laptop, he was confuse to find away to make the sound
works properly. Is there any workaround and when / would / will there ever be a windows7 compatible audio driver for the Acer TravelMate 4220?

In case the sound issue on Acer TravelMate 4220 like above also comes to you, actually if you can track down a Vista compatible audio driver, it may work with Microsoft Windows 7. Usually it runs well because sometimes Vista drivers do the trick.

However, you can try to install XP driver in compatibility mode. Mostly, the drivers for XP OS works fine for Windows 7. And here is the download link of audio driver for Acer TravelMate 4220 that runs on Windows 7.

Using Windows XP on Acer Aspire One ZG5 can cause some annoying problems. Some of the users of the laptop have reported that they experience the same problem when the Windows XP is used in their laptop. It is the blue screen of death, very often it is accompanied by blank screen and no screen. The other users also report that their Acer Aspire One ZG5 do not want to boot at all.

The best symptom that can be used to detect whether or not this problem happen to your Acer Aspire One ZG5 that belongs to you is by looking whether there is the Acer logo, BIOS setup, or BIOS post screen. If you found none of this requirement, then it is indeed you have the same problem as the other users.

There are some steps that you can apply to your Acer Aspire ZG5 to fix this problem. The first is by using the safe mode by bringing the Windows XP to safe mode during boot. The second solution is by using the restore option in Aspire One ZG5. After this is done, the user should select a date when the problem is occurred. There is other simple solution, is by taking the battery out. After a few seconds, the user can put the battery back and reset the BIOS on your laptop.

Many people that have already have their computer powered with Windows Vista very often want something more on their computer, especially Acer Aspire 5520, by installing Windows 7 to it. Yet, many of them do not realize that this can cause a problem to them. The most occurred problem that is faced by these people is that DVD is not detected when they use Windows 7 from Windows Vista.

It is very often that they find all performs well except for the CD burning or the DVD. The other thing that very often becomes also the stressing problem is the device manager that reports that there are two devices that have not the driver installed. It is the “other devices”, that are the base system-PCI bus 1, device 4, and function 3.

Though the problem has been recognized, it is still not easy to fix this problem. The user of the laptop might have been searching for the driver for their Acer Aspire 5520, but there is no driver available, even also the driver update. The missing Windows 7 driver when someone changes their Windows Vista to the Window 7 can be fixed by uninstalling the CD/DVD burner driver. After uninstalling, the user should restart the computer. If the user is lucky enough, the Windows will detect the devices and install it automatically.

Nowadays, Acer Aspire released a new recovery management which is called with Aspire One ZG5. This new management is more complete system restoration than the previous Acer eRecovery Management. The basic function of Aspire One ZG5 management is the same as with the Acer eRecovery that is to support restoration system to factory default, moreover, to reinstall the drivers or applications. Yet, there are some the additional features or utilities of Aspire One ZG5, namely it can reinstall the application or divers, creating images of disk as well as create the factory restore discs on the form external DVD-RW. The most important thing is this management system of Aspire One ZG5 could be applied on netnooks.

As we know that, all netbooks do not have eRecovery. So that, with this new recovery will solve your problem of recovering. Thus, in recovering system default of your netbook, you should use DVD in burning the recovery system default. Why is so, because the Linux or Windows XP just can run of booting process on DVD external. Afterward, you connect the DVD drive to the Aspire One ZG5 and you can turn off your netbook. The following step is you press F2 and change the order of boot stated. Later, you move that changing into USB drive. Before you exit, you press F5 to make the setting of yours move on the top and save the setting by pressing F10.