XP Drivers for OEM Vista Acer

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I recently bought an Acer Aspire M3201 that natively comes with Vista OS - but I chose to have Windows XP installed instead.

Last weekend my hard drive was playing up (I'm guessing it was a problem with the disc or controller on the mobo) so I returned the desktop and had the HDD replaced under warranty. Yesterday I picked it up from the shop and noticed that my NIC wasn't assigning any IP details from my broadband router - on closer inspection it seems that the drivers for my ethernet card haven't been installed.

Off I went to Acers site - but as the PC is usually shipped with Vista, I can't seem to find any XP ethernet drivers

I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction

Cheers guys.

 

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Thanks for the prompt replies!

Sparky - no such directories on the machine. My other vista machine does have though

craigie - cheers for that. I had originally found that site and downloaded a .rar zipped files. I've now just gone back and found the actual rar file with the setup.exe ; this one seems to actually install the driver The one I downloaded orginally seems to be an update for the existing driver, which allows for the adjustment of certain parameters.

Will try this tonight, thanks!