Credit goes to fellow techie Ahmed Ali Ibrahim of Qatar for his inputs. Here’s how we installed Windows 8 Developer Preview on an Acer Iconia tab W500. • Extract the 32-bit Windows 8 Developer Preview ISO and copy the files to a USB thumb drive. • Shutdown the tablet.

• Connect a USB keyboard to the tablet. • Press and hold down the Windows button and the Power button, when the machine starts, press F2.

Clean install problems on Acer Aspire 5553 - Windows 7. Rating:4/10Aug 05, 2012 Hello to you all, I am attempting a clean install of windows home premium 64bit, with not much success. The laptop is an Acer Aspire 5553 with Toshiba. Installing Windows 8 on a Acer Aspire Netbook, it works pretty well. Rating:1/10Sep 18, 2011 - I then ran the Windows setup and as with my other experience of installing Windows 8 it ran very smoothly. I chose to do a clean install as I.

This will display the BIOS setup. • Change the boot order to boot from the USB HDD. • Save changes and exit BIOS setup, plug in the USB thumb drive, and restart the computer. You can disconnect the keyboard at this point. • The computer boots into Windows 8 setup from the USB drive. • Windows 8 automatically installs all the drivers, except for the Bluetooth and the G-Sensor.

You can download these drivers from the. You also need to download the “Device Control” application from the Acer website (it is listed under applications). The screen rotation will not work both the G-Sensor driver and the Device Control application are not installed. If you had installed the 64-bit version of Windows 8 Developer Preview, the G-sensor will not work as the driver on the Acer website is only for 32-bit versions of Windows. How were you trying to install Win 8? Try a different USB port. Were you using USB thumb drive or optical drive?

I got that same error when I tried to install using USB thumb drive plugged into the right USB port on the docking station. I then undocked the tablet and plugged the USB thumb drive to the center USB port on the tablet and that worked without error. Later, I reinstalled Win 8 using an optical drive and I realized I needed the keyboard because you have to hit a key to get pass the CD-rom bootup message.

So this time, I plugged the optical drive into the left USB port on the docking station and it worked perfectly. Grandtec Grand Wifi Camera Pro Driver. I’m having an issue with the screen rotation.

The only way it seems to work is if I open the device manager and immediately upon exiting the manager, rotate the tablet — fast. Any delay and it won’t rotate. E System Ei 3103 Drivers. This will work only sporadically, it seems. Sometimes it won’t rotate at all. I wonder if the rotation issue may be the order in which you install the applications/drivers or if “device manager” isn’t properly starting with Win8.

I will check on the msconfig information for start up applications and see how that might be affecting it. It also may be another conflict with some of the Acer applications/drivers, but I am really at a loss as no devices seem to have errors associated with them. Can you please advise of what order installation you used? Also, where in the device manager does the G-Sensor show up? It doesn’t appear in my device manager to my knowledge unless it is named something unrecognizable.

A few other Win8 on the Acer issues I am having are: 1) The Piano: The sound after installing the audio drivers from Acer is horrific dying cat sounds when using the piano. The overall sound quality may be better with movies and music, though. 2) Right swipe of metro startup screen takes me to the “charm bar,” but locks in the “settings” menu with no options. 3) Labyrinth game doesn’t work – which seems to be a common problem. Overall, I am in love with Windows 8 on the Acer W500. I haven’t tried it on a Non-Touch PC, but it seems like it has many apps that require a tablet environment. Hello, Thanks for this great tutorial.

So, i’ve installed windows 8 on my iconia W500, and after a few use i decided to remove it and restore windows 7. But unfortunately i don’t success in re-installing Windows 7 with recovery acer DVDs. When booting from Dvd, Acer icon show up and then i get a black screen. By pressing the Windows key, volume-up key and power button simultaneously, i get a message telling to connect the DVD. It seems it does recognize the DVD. But i tryed the same scenario with others DVD for same result.

I also connected an usb Keyboard and press and hole the Start Button and then press and hold the Power Button but i always get the black screen. Does someone have any idea, please Help, i’m lost. I did exactly like what u said. But when I reached the point whether to upgrade or delete old windows, I couldn’t chose anyone of them. It was written that there was some problem and i have to check the log. I figured out that it might be from the low memory in c driver, so I have formatted the c driver. When I want to continue installing windows8 i couldn’t (same as before) And now every time I try to boot from my usb it gives me this massage: Windows Recovery Environment your PC need to be repaired The boot configuration data file doesn’t contain valid information for an operation system File: BootBCD Error code: 0xc0000098 you’ll need to use the recovery tools on your instillation media.

If you don’t have any installation media (like a disk or usb device), contact your system administration or PC manufacturer. —————————- I want to install windows 8 on my iconia tap w500 can you help me please ^_^. I followed this guide, when I tried to upgrade to the windows 8 mediacentre enabled release candidate windows boots saying it is attempting repairs, this problem also happens when I turn off my acer using the enterprise trial.

This has happned about 5 times, I am sure it is not my install, what else could it be? I got every device on it working, when I added the drivers to a WDS image and installed that way( I copied windows/system32 driver and driver store, and added all driver in that folder to my windows server 2012 RC. )bluetooth, gsensor, sound, ect(don’t have 3g, has anyone successfully managed to upgrade?)_ did have one problem with touch screen not working, I pluged in a usb mouse, and restarted and got the above problem.