Comments on: Installing Windows 7 32 bit on Acer 4730z

By: Jeedo

Jeedo — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:27:31 +0000

Thanks for the tip, will definitely take note ^_^ From what you are describing it could really be a driver issue. It’s odd though since I didn’t have any problems connecting to an N band wifi network after installing the driver, the driver I used though came bundled with Windows 7. Unfortunately my wife’s laptop isn’t here as of writing this but soon as she gets home I should be able to investigate more.

By: Spectre

Spectre — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:42:43 +0000

Good news, I’m able to have two 22″ Acer X223W widescreen monitors working with this little 14.1″ lappy heh, using VGA direct to one of them since theres only one VGA port on this. The second one is tethered through an external UGA (usb 2.0 Display adaptor DH-88) from Arkview using one of the usb ports via a usb hub…. the nifty thing about that is later when I get a HDTV the Arkview will take an HDMI feed. Its a breeze juggling three displays loving it. If you ever end up getting an Arkview DH-88 be sure to visit the manufacturer’s site for the Win7 drivers, it makes a huge difference.

In other news, the Athero’s wifi adaptor versions I’ve tried 8.0.0.225 and earlier 8.0.0.238 both seem to give me wifi ‘b’ still not seeing the g/n. Was wondering if maybe I’m missing a module for Acer’s SignalUp/Nplify. I’m not able to connect to routers using “N” bands like I did before the upgrade. Is going to continue the hunt until I get this ‘fixed’. The Acer Guy’s site is pretty good with these things but not a thing mentioned about the SignalUP or Nplify or anyone else experiencing a problem with their Atheros AR5B91 adaptors like this.

By: Jeedo

Jeedo — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:47:35 +0000

Hi Spectre, gratz on the smooth install. About your question, which particular tab in the wireless network properties are you looking at? I have an Atheros AR5008X so my card could be different from yours.

In any case, the way you can see your real connection bandwidth is to click on the wireless connection icon on the taskbar. Then hover your cursor to whichever wireless connection you are tethered, right click and select status. The two important sections that you will be interested in looking at are the Speed and Signal Quality.

Even if you have a wireless network card that supports n, you’ll need to have a wireless access point that supports n and configured to broadcast the wireless n protocol.

One more thing, don’t forget to update Windows, make sure you download the security and driver updates. You can skip the other optional updates.

By: Spectre

Spectre — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:24:25 +0000

Well… the Windows 7 Ultimate *CLEAN* install went swimingly. Most everything appears to be working, and my WEI states a 3.3 so that much is good.

I’m concerned though about the athero’s AR5B91, adaptor properties says its a b….This is supposed to be a Wifi a/b/g/n adaptor which is what I had on Vista Home Premium before the upgrade. Am I missing something here?

By: Jeedo

Jeedo — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:41:32 +0000

Hi Spectre. Thanks for dropping by. Wishing you the best on your install, hopefully everything should go smoothly for you like I did on mine assuming you have the same hardware as mine.

My wife’s Windows Experience Index is 3.5, the lowest being the graphics card. It has an Intel 4500 onboard video but its already good enough for all office applications save for graphic intensive games.

Should you come across problems, just shoot me a question here at the comment section, good luck!

By: Spectre

Spectre — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:09:09 +0000

Sounds good, I have the same Acer Aspire 4730z with Vista Home Premium, and now that I have my Win7 Ultimate install disks, I’m planning to do the 32bit clean install. All the drivers I require have been collected and I’m hopeful things will work fine when I’m done.

I’m curious though, have you experienced any problems with the DVD-RW (either playing or burning dvd’s), or the wifi – signalup?

Except for the Acer Launch manager, I won’t be installing any Acer bundles *whew* so that should help things considerably; I’ve heard of people having a rating of 3.1 before they upgraded to Win7, then without the acer bundle attaining a 3.3 rating. Sounds promising.

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