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Gateway Sucks
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Posted by: p3ngu!n
I'm trying to fix a computer given to me by a friend. A laptop, Gateway M-6755. The Gateway website proves completely useless as it provides only three drivers. Chipset, Modem, and SATA Controllers. No video, audio, or network drivers. The SATA controllers I do neeed so I can install Windows XP and murder Vista on this thing, but then I need an external floppy drive. The XP installer will simply not recognize the SATA drives.
What am I supposed to do? Recoery disc or bust? I refuse to believe it.
Posted by: goranpaa
I agree. Gateway stuff are horrible.
I tried to find drivers for it too. But "Driver Detective" seems to be the only site that have some. And then you will have to pay for their service.
I guess the recovery is the best alternative.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
I was able to install XP. Any luck finding me drivers? They should be the same as Vista I think.
Posted by: goranpaa
Could you check in the device manager for what network controller or / and chipset, onboard sound and graphic chip the Gateway got?
Also download and install Everest home, And see if you can find out what mobo this is?
Great you did get XP installed.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Here. Though I'm not sure how helpful this will be.
http://up.soulestudios.com//files/1/Report.htm
Posted by: p3ngu!n
I was able to find the graphic drivers from Intel and I installed the chipset and modem from the site. All I'm missing are Audio and Ethernet (both LAN and WIFI).
Help? I'm still looking and the ones I found for LAN didn't work. And this is proving to be unhelpful as for the WIFI (which is Marvell).
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Scratch that, I forced the drivers in with Have Disk... and they seem to work. For some reason it wasn't recognizing them before. Audio and WIFI? Help? 
These proved useless.
UPDATE:
HEY OOOOOOO!
Ok. Only need audio drivers now... 
Posted by: goranpaa
You did a good detective work.
The onboard audio is Realtek AC 97, as far as I could find out, Googeling on the sound driver version number.
http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/ac97.html
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Nope. I figured it out just now. It's not realtek. This is the driver I needed.
I'm going to make an entire blog post detailing how to do all that I just did in case anyone Googles this same issue again.
Always a pleasure to come here and ask for help. Thanks goranpaa.
Posted by: goranpaa
Hmm, strange. But Googling on the driver number is'nt an exact "science" lol.
The important thing is that you found all the drivers needed. And maybe you should be glad it whas'nt AC 97? As those on board sound chips can crackle and pop as hell sometimes.
Yeah, good idea with a blog!
You're welcome.
But I whas'nt much of a help this time.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
I want to make an image of this install so I can just pop in a CD and install everything in one fell swoop, drivers, software, and everything. I'm stuck with Norton Ghost, right?
Posted by: goranpaa
I think that Acronis True Image are better than Norton Ghost really.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputin...load/trueimage/
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Here we go. Post it somewhere maybe?
Posted by: goranpaa
Very nice indeed!
Here maybe?
http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/forum17.html
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