I finally figured out how to install XP on my laptop. Funny thing is I had settled on Vista and was quite happy with it. I was messing around in BIOS changing something and seen the setting to change my HD to read as an IDE rather than SATA. I had read about this earlier and how to get XP installed on another model. Funny thing is my XP OEM license key activated on this computer, it was originally for my desktop..I’ve already updated to SP 3.
Once XP was installed, virtually none of my hardware worked. No wireless internet or even Ethernet connection, so I Googled. I found this (second post) on a forum, it’s an exe that installs all the drivers necessary and I installed it the install took about 10 minutes and when I restarted I had everything I needed. The only issue was some error about the bluetooth driver but I don’t use it, I’ll explore it in the future, if I need it. I’m going to upload the file here as it’s hosted at one of those file hosting sites and you never know how long the file will be available. <FILE REMOVED – Virus detected>
The package includes the graphics driver however it didn’t install correctly and I had to download it from Intel’s site: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2800&DwnldID=16463&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng
Overall I was happy with Vista even though it was a little slow. XP runs like a champ on this machine, it simply flies. Even with additional software running on boot compared to Vista. On startup I’m running ZoneAlarm and Google Desktop it which I didn’t run on Vista and I still go from login to a usable desktop a lot faster! Firefox starts very fast too. Over all I’m more happy with this laptop than when I first bought it and I was happy then. 
Battery life even seems better.
Update: 11/21/08 – Avast Antivirus found a trojan in the download previously included here. Link removed and file deleted from server.
Hi Dan, I’ve got as Acer 5920 too, but I’m having serious problems finding a step-by step process of how to downgrade online.
Can you post up exactly how you did it, step by step?
Cheers!!
Donal
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Hi Donal,
Give me a couple of days and I’ll post one up for ya, I’ll drop you an email with the link.
Cheers,
Dan
Hi Dan.
I too would like to put xp on an acer 5920 that has just been bought. I have built 4 computers over the years with xp, but never done an installation on a laptop before and they were all ide machines, so that step – by – step guide would help greatly and would be much appreciated. Any idea when you might be putting it on the web page ? Thanks.
Hi,
Posted earlier but somehow it disappeared !!
I too would like to install xp on a 5920, so have you any idea when you might be putting the step by step on here as I am sure it would be most helpful, and would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
[...] UPDATE: September 8, 2008 to include driver package information from my previous post [...]
My av reports a trojan in that file
My AV does too all of a sudden. It didn’t when I first uploaded it.
. I’ve removed the file and link to it.
Hi dan, i got a Acer Aspire 5920 with installed XP. Problem is when i try to run a game the graphics looked messed up, could you find me a gfx driver and post it on the site? Thanks.
Hi Matt. I already have the link for the Intel driver above. If you have the nVidia driver let me know and I’ll find you a link.
Cheers for the great info m8