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   Posted by: a horse
   Member

   Hi all,

   This week I've been trying to install Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 on a virtual machine (using VMware) on my Acer Aspire 5920G and it's just not working. Everything installs fine until I get into windows and try to install my drivers. The program stops everytime with the message that my system doesn't meet the system requirements. This happens afaik with all the drivers. With the nvidia drivers it says that the program can't find a driver that matches my video card.
   Everything I've tried seems to work fine, internet works and all. After installing the VMware tools everything works in Device Manager too.

   I want to install the drivers because I'm following some sort of tutorial and want to walk through all the steps.

   Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about and can help me.

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Posted by: powerbkc
   Member

   u can download the drivers of Xp for this model from support.acer.com.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   Posted by: a horse
   Member

   I've tryed the XP drivers from acer and some other drivers that someone succesfully used on this model, all with the same result.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   Posted by: Peter
   Moderator

   It's probably something with VMware as a straight XP install will work fine. I would check out their forums as since you're using their program to install it there may be some incompatibilities with a version of it you are using and XP SP2 or another OS that may be installed on your system.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Posted by: a horse
   Member

   I see, glad to know that a normal XP install would work since I intended to switch to XP in the future but was afraid to do so because of this.
   Only thing to keep in mind is the SATA drivers I'll need then.
   Thx for the help, I'll see what's wrong with VMware then.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Posted by: morrislee
   Moderator

   The driver won't install in the vmware as in vm, they are emuluated devices, if you look closely in the device manager, you will notice the devices in vm is different from the host.

   And don't expect too much performance from a vm, unless you have AMD-V or intel-VT enabled CPU and CPU virtualization supported vm software such as parallel desktop 4.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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