Acer aspire 5315

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Does any one know how to change the boot sequence in the bios for this model,
tapping f2 at start up gives you limited options but no boot sequence. I have had a good look around but keep drawing a blank.
Basically what i am trying to do is put a fresh copy of xp sp3 on this lappy, any help advice appreciated cheers.
 
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Shut the notebook completely down. Now turn it back on, and as soon as the Acer screen comes up, hit the “F2″ key to enter the BIOS. Navigate to the second page of the BIOS (titled “Main”) by pressing the right arrow key.
You may wish to turn of “Network Boot” by selecting it with your arrow keys and hitting enter, then changing it to disabled. This is often used in a cluster-lab environment, and for normal users only slows down your boot process.
You must now turn on the F12 Boot Menu by selecting it with your arrow keys, hitting Enter, and changing it to “Enabled”
Now switch to the “Exit” page, and hit Enter to “Exit Saving Changes”. The BIOS will ask you to confirm, tell it “Yes”.
Now the notebook will reboot, and you must hit F12 to boot from your CD.
On the “Boot Manager” screen, chose the second option which should be an ATAPI drive, such as a DVD-RW or CD-RW, highlight it with your arrow keys and press Enter.
 
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ephid0r said:
Shut the notebook completely down. Now turn it back on, and as soon as the Acer screen comes up, hit the “F2″ key to enter the BIOS. Navigate to the second page of the BIOS (titled “Main”) by pressing the right arrow key.
You may wish to turn of “Network Boot” by selecting it with your arrow keys and hitting enter, then changing it to disabled. This is often used in a cluster-lab environment, and for normal users only slows down your boot process.
You must now turn on the F12 Boot Menu by selecting it with your arrow keys, hitting Enter, and changing it to “Enabled”
Now switch to the “Exit” page, and hit Enter to “Exit Saving Changes”. The BIOS will ask you to confirm, tell it “Yes”.
Now the notebook will reboot, and you must hit F12 to boot from your CD.
On the “Boot Manager” screen, chose the second option which should be an ATAPI drive, such as a DVD-RW or CD-RW, highlight it with your arrow keys and press Enter.
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Worked a treat top man cheers.
 
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Your drives are SATA, you need to install their drivers to continue.

Watch the onscreen info as the disk is booting, you will see a message asking you to press a button (possibly F2 to install SATA Drivers).

If your machine was released soley to run Vista then you might struggle trying to find an XP SATA driver.
 
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witchy2k1 said:
Your drives are SATA, you need to install their drivers to continue.

Watch the onscreen info as the disk is booting, you will see a message asking you to press a button (possibly F2 to install SATA Drivers).

If your machine was released soley to run Vista then you might struggle trying to find an XP SATA driver.
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Yes just on the case now for xp drivers cheers mate.
 
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Messa said:
It will run marginally slower but as far as I am aware once you have XP installed you can then install the SATA drivers, reboot and change your BIOS back again and it should then be at full speed.

Messa

EDIT: this is the driver pal.....

http://www.getpcmemory.com/goto/AHCI_Intel_v7_5_0_1017_XP_zip/229/3
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This is what i have done messa and its twice as fast as vista, it was for a friend, i just cant be doing with vista it is slow and bloated imo.
 
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vista was a marketing tool not just for m$ but other associated companies

reminds me of when they bought out ME after 98se :)

u need a hell of a lot of ram to get it running at a decent speed as well as a decent cpu

is it better than xp - NO

do you need anything over 2ghz cpu power & 1gb of ram with 80Gb of hard drive to get xp to run quick - no
 
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ephid0r said:
vista was a marketing tool not just for m$ but other associated companies

reminds me of when they bought out ME after 98se :)

u need a hell of a lot of ram to get it running at a decent speed as well as a decent cpu

is it better than xp - NO

do you need anything over 2ghz cpu power & 1gb of ram with 80Gb of hard drive to get xp to run quick - no
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is it better than xp - NO in your opinion, in mine most definitely horses for courses mate.
 
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TheJackel said:
is it better than xp - NO in your opinion, in mine most definitely horses for courses mate.
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Have to agree mate, It's totally dependant on the hardware. XP is still a great O/S, Vista, if used on the hardware capable of running it properly, is also a very good O/S, and in fact much more secure. That said, Win7 will be top of the bill, they have really tried to bring the security side up to scratch, (as they did in Vista, but didn't quite make it) and it will be their best O/S to date. (IMHO)

XP, although more secure than the previous incumbents, is quite poor on security, despite what they had hoped.

As always, it takes time to get used to the new UI of any O/S.
 
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