Windows XP drivers

Here is a list of places where you can download the drivers for the Acer 5051.

Acer official EU FTP. Here you can find drivers for XP and Vista.
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_5050

ATI drivers for the Radeon Xpress 1100
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/integrated-xp.html

AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology Utilities & Updates
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13349,00.html

From the official Acer site, I've installed the following drivers:

• Atheros WLAN XB63 Driver 5.1.1.9
• Audio Driver Realtek Ver.5.10.0.5273
• Camera Driver Suyin Ver.5.7.8.3
• Card Reader Driver 5.1.2600.2011
• Modem Driver Foxconn Ver.7.48.0.0

All of the other needed drivers I installed are from their official sites. But I did not install the touchpad driver nor the LAN driver.

Specifications

The laptop has the following manufacturer specs:

• AMD Turion 64 Mobile MK36 (2.0 GHz, 512KB L2 cache)
• 1 GB DDR2
• 14.1 WXGA Acer CrystalBrite LCD
• ATI Radeon Xpress 1100, up to 256MB from system memory
• 120 GB HDD
• DVD Multi (support DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RW)
• 10/100 ethernet
• 802.11b/g wireless LAN
• Acer Orbicam integrated webcam

The Acer 5050 series details can be found here:

http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as5050.htm

The laptop came with Windows Vista Home Basic preinstalled, although there is an option to get it with Windows Media Center Edition 2005. All two options are 32bit.

We will later cover in-depth the hardware specifications one by one.