Laptop upgraded to Windows 7 - Problems

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s1nglef1sh

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I have an Acer Aspire 5738 laptop which was running factory installed Vista.

After some major problems that would not fix even after several recoveries to factory settings, I decided to upgrade to Windows 7.

I performed a clean install an everything seems great; however, there are a few issues that I hope you can help with.

1. The laptop no longer recognises the DVD/CD player ot the Card Reader
2. The volume buttons no longer work
2. The webcam no longer works

I realise that these are probably all driver issues, but I don't know which drivers to download!

I've been on the Acer website and I'm none the wiser.

Does anyone know of any diagnostic software or anything I can do to get all the functionality of my laptop back?

Thanks and regards

John
 
well i would download and install them all... if you go to device manager you should see which ones you are missing... no matter what i would start off with the chipset drivers and then go from there.
 
Since you don't know which driver to download, If you still have the factory recovery cd/dvds, I would suggest you return the computer to the factory status then upgrade to windows 7, most vista drivers are working with windows 7.
best regards,
Paul
 
x86, or x64? The Acer website appears to have several drivers listed for Windows 7, in both the 32 and 64 bit flavors. It does have the card reader and webcam drivers listed for both versions that I see, but nothing for the CD/DVD. That should be supported from the drivers within Windows 7 itself, especially since it allowed you to install the OS itself. I don't see the volume buttons either, but I suspect that may be covered in another driver, such as in the Acer version of the Realtek audio driver. If your network adapters work, is Windows Update able to find the drivers?
 
Well, it's gone from bad to worse....

Windows 7 eventually crashed like Vista did and I've been back and forward trying to install one then the other. Now It seems to be completely knackered.

When I try to boot from either, it starts set up (really slowly) and then shows the 'Setup is starting' screen where it stays indefinitely....

I think it must be a hardware problem but how can I diagnose it if I can't boot it up?
 
If you hit F8 before it begins loading Windows, can you get it to boot into safe mode? You could also try a startup repair from the Win7 disc.
 
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