joddle Posted September 16, 2016 Posted September 16, 2016 Having decided my old Acer Travelmate 2700 was starting to run a bit slow I decided to install W7. The install went well and for the most part runs fine. I have a Ethernet a decent screen and sound but the one thing I cannot get working is the wifi. I can't even see the wifi card in the system so have no idea what to try. The wifi ran fine under XP but the Acer website does not offer any W7 drivers. So how can I find a driver for my wifi again? I tried installing the XP driver but it wont install saying the system is not compatible - _I even tried in XP compatibility mode but it came to the same thing. Any ideas please? Quote
KenB Posted September 17, 2016 Posted September 17, 2016 I can't even see the wifi card in the system Acer website does not offer any W7 drivers tried in XP compatibility mode but it came to the same thing This is all pointing to the fact that your old XP wireless adapter is not compatible with Win-7 :( You could get a USB Wireless adapter quite cheaply. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
joddle Posted September 17, 2016 Author Posted September 17, 2016 This is all pointing to the fact that your old XP wireless adapter is not compatible with Win-7 :( You could get a USB Wireless adapter quite cheaply. How can I find out which wifi card I have?. All my old dell d400n latitudes were fine and the cards recognised by w7. Quote
KenB Posted September 17, 2016 Posted September 17, 2016 Found this - click here - says it is compatible with Win7 32 bit. Worth a try. It downloads as a .zip file. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
joddle Posted September 17, 2016 Author Posted September 17, 2016 Thanks - but how do I install it - I still cant see the wi fi card in the system device manager Quote
joddle Posted September 17, 2016 Author Posted September 17, 2016 Aha - realised how to do it - all working perfectly now - thanks Ken Quote
KenB Posted September 17, 2016 Posted September 17, 2016 Happy that it worked for you :) Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
joddle Posted September 18, 2016 Author Posted September 18, 2016 It seems there is a simple way to do a fast setup of older PCs when you cant find W7 drivers. First install W7. Then download (but do not run) all the XP drivers and store them in a folder. Then using Device Manager select the thing that needs a driver (ie those with yellow exclamation mark )and on the properties update the new driver by pointing at the folder with the XP drivers. This seems to work for almost everything - I have now managed to updated a Dell 400 and Acer Travelmate 2700 to W7 (all quite old XP machines) and all the drivers installed fine and both PCs running smoothly. , Hope this is of use to others struggling with failed installs with incompatibility messages when they try and install older drivers using their build in "setup" functions. Quote
KenB Posted September 18, 2016 Posted September 18, 2016 Thanks for the update joddle - I am sure somebody will find this useful. :) Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
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