Acer Aspire 5742 Windows 7 Driver

Supported Operating system : Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 7-64 bit.

INTEL CHIPSET INSTALLATION (Motherboard)
There are 4 essential driver which is Intel chipset, AMT, AHCI and Turbo Boost)

1. Chipset
Chipset Driver Intel 9.1.1.1024 2.3 MB 08/18/2010
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2. AHCI
SATA AHCI Driver Intel 9.6.2.1001 10.0 MB 08/18/2010
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3. AMT
Intel iAMT Driver Intel 6.0.0.1179 5.3 MB 08/18/2010
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4. Turbo Boost
Turbo Boost Driver Intel 1.2.0.1002 1.1 MB 08/18/2010
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AUDIO
Audio Driver Realtek 6.0.1.6141 95.8 MB 08/18/2010
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BLUETOOTH
There are 4 drivers for bluetooth, by type only atheros and broadcom, choose base on your specs, if you don;t know which to install, try which work for you. I recommend to choose no 2 and 3.

1. Bluetooth Driver for Windows 7 SP1 Atheros 6.18.0624.0302 199.9 MB 04/12/2011
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2. Bluetooth Driver Broadcom 6.3.0.5900 59.0 MB 08/18/2010
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3. Bluetooth Driver Atheros 6.27.0521.0302 65.4 MB 08/18/2010
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4. Bluetooth Driver (3.0) Broadcom 6.3.0.6000 59.0 MB 10/19/2010
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CAMERA/WEBCAM
Choose base on your specs, normally all driver provide the generic driver for CAM input, the difference only in stability and aps.

1. Camera Driver Suyin 5.3.36.1 7.3 MB 01/27/2011
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2. Camera Driver Chicony 1.1.199.107 3.7 MB 01/27/2011
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3. Camera Driver liteon 1.0.5.2 6.0 MB 01/27/2011
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CARD READER
Card Reader Driver Realtek 6.1.7600.30122 8.3 MB 08/18/2010
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LAN/ETHERNET
LAN Driver Broadcom 14.0.1.0 10.8 MB 08/18/2010
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TOUCHPAD
Install both driver 

Touchpad Driver Synaptics 14.0.19.0 29.5 MB 08/18/2010
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Touchpad Driver ELANTECH 7.0.6.5 37.9 MB 08/18/2010
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VGA/GRAPHIC
There are 3 type of graphic which is INTEL, NVIDIA and AMD. Choose base on your specs, normally you can see it written in the sticker on you laptop. (AMD refer to ATI graphic). For Nvidia Install physix (no 1) and driver no 2. There are 2 version for intel graphic, you can choose any version to install.

VGA Driver (Physx) NVIDIA 9.10.0514 24.6 MB 12/15/2011
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VGA Driver NVIDIA 8.17.12.8564 371.0 MB 12/15/2011
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VGA Driver AMD 8.741.0.0000 241.1 MB 08/18/2010
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VGA Driver Intel 8.15.10.2182 77.6 MB 07/12/2011
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VGA Driver Intel 8.15.10.2125 77.4 MB 08/18/2010
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Wireless LAN
There are 2 driver for wireless Atheros and Broadcom (for broadcom there are 2 version available). 

Wireless LAN Driver Atheros 9.2.0.439 11.6 MB 12/22/2011
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Wireless LAN Driver Broadcom 5.100.82.95 33.6 MB 10/18/2011
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