aksd
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I bought this laptop a few months back from Bestbuy for the unbeatable price of $350.
Has low specs but should that be what you need it's great
Celeron M 1.6ghz
512mb ddr2-667 4-4-4-12
80gb seagate 5400rpm HDD
ATI m200 w/out 1394
Wireless/lan/56k modem
3 USB ports
SD card slot
14" screen
Not bad right? Wrong it's shipped with Vista basic. After struggling with Vista I knew it had to go. Xp is the next logical OS. Installed and next came the locating of drivers. I spent over a month with no sound, no wifi, and 2 or 3 unknown devices SMbus was one...When at last I found this site
http://robbray.com/gateway-ml3109-drivers-for-windows-xp/
Thank you so much! yay!
So now the struggle is over and should anyone else want to purchase this Bestbuy deal and having to worry about not finding the drivers for Xp...
Here they are:
Marvell 10/100 network: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=103&pId=1
Realtek 8185L 802.11b/g network: ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/wlan/x86-8185(1094).zip
High Definition Audio Bus driver (install only the Microsoft KB888111 executable): ftp://209.216.61.149/pc/audio/WDM_R173.zip
SigmaTel Audio: ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win_xp/sound/integrated/D00737-001-001.exe
Agere HDA Modem: ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win_vista/modem/D20004-002-001.exe
Omega ATI Radeon 200M graphics (third-party driver, select Radeon, then XP): http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php
EDIT:New download location USB2.0 and SMBus (unpacks drivers to C:\ATI, won’t install): http://www.filehippo.com/download_ati_catalyst_xp/tech/3477/
Has low specs but should that be what you need it's great
Celeron M 1.6ghz
512mb ddr2-667 4-4-4-12
80gb seagate 5400rpm HDD
ATI m200 w/out 1394
Wireless/lan/56k modem
3 USB ports
SD card slot
14" screen
Not bad right? Wrong it's shipped with Vista basic. After struggling with Vista I knew it had to go. Xp is the next logical OS. Installed and next came the locating of drivers. I spent over a month with no sound, no wifi, and 2 or 3 unknown devices SMbus was one...When at last I found this site
http://robbray.com/gateway-ml3109-drivers-for-windows-xp/
Thank you so much! yay!
So now the struggle is over and should anyone else want to purchase this Bestbuy deal and having to worry about not finding the drivers for Xp...
Here they are:
Marvell 10/100 network: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=103&pId=1
Realtek 8185L 802.11b/g network: ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/wlan/x86-8185(1094).zip
High Definition Audio Bus driver (install only the Microsoft KB888111 executable): ftp://209.216.61.149/pc/audio/WDM_R173.zip
SigmaTel Audio: ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win_xp/sound/integrated/D00737-001-001.exe
Agere HDA Modem: ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win_vista/modem/D20004-002-001.exe
Omega ATI Radeon 200M graphics (third-party driver, select Radeon, then XP): http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php
EDIT:New download location USB2.0 and SMBus (unpacks drivers to C:\ATI, won’t install): http://www.filehippo.com/download_ati_catalyst_xp/tech/3477/