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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-dr...or-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/drive...?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_s...37-001-001.exe


Agere HDA Modem: ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_s...04-002-001.exe


Omega ATI Radeon 200M graphics (third-party driver, select Radeon, then XP): http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php


USB2.0 and SMBus (unpacks drivers to C:\ATI, won’t install): http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/x...grated-xp.html

...and did I mention that this laptop can run world of warcraft...well I just did...It will run much better when my RAM comes...woot woot!

hi i bought this laptop for my wife and would love install xp on it , i tried and it locked up the laptop and i ordered the restore dvd from gateway could you give me more info on how to downgrade and correctly do it please?

Just boot off of a valid XP cd, Delete the current partition, create a new partition, do a full format then install XP.. Just follow the prompts on the screen it's very easy. Make sure you download the Drivers that aksd graciously provided so you don't run into the same headaches as him. Any problems just ask here of email me.

I just popped in the XP cd deleted the partition and reformatted. That's it...other then the 1-2 month search for the drivers that lead to the great find above

i did as stated but i it would only let me into safe mode and randomly restarted ,do i have to flash the bios or something i just got lost in the process

I really don't know. I have had no trouble with it. Installed like a champ...Maybe the install got goofed?

I installed XP, got the drivers etc. One problem, I can't get the audio to work at all. Any suggestions?

I found the folder for kb888111xpsp2.

I clicked on it to begin the installation.

After the installation, the 'Found new hardware' wizard comes up.
I searched the location WDM_R173\WDM_R173\\WDM
Nothing - couldn't find the necessary software.

So, I try again.
This time, I told it not to search.
I selected the Sound, video and game controllers.
The next screen you choose the manufacturer and the model.

Which 2 do I choose?

Did you start installing the drivers before or after updating to SP2? Both times I have installed XP on the system I started with only LAN then updated.

Also I installed in this order:

LAN
SMBus
Graphics
Wireless
HD audio bus driver
Sigmatel
Modem

"installed XP, got the drivers etc. One problem, I can't get the audio to work at all. Any suggestions?

I found the folder for kb888111xpsp2.

I clicked on it to begin the installation."

Cancel out of the new hardware found window and reboot. After install the Sigmatel driver...comes as a selfextracting rar which I found "setup.exe" in C:\cabs\D00737-001-001...depends where the files extracted to

Hope this helps :-) If not post back

aksd

I am starting over from scratch.

I had been installing in the order you had in the first post.

If I read your last post correctly, it should be:

Marvel
SMBus
Omega Drivers
Realtek
the KB888111
Sigmatel
Modem

I'll try this order. *crosses fingers*

[and yes - I'm new to this sort of thing]

ok cool. I don't remember which...I think only the LAN and Wireless I used the windows driver search. Extracted the drivers grabbed the sys and ini files, put them on desktop then pointed windows to desktop.

The order with the drivers shouldn't be too important. Only with the HD audio bus and the sound driver as the sigmatel driver requires the HD audio be installed first.

*crosses fingers for rh1ann*

*sigh*

the latest saga:

first the good news - I have sound!

now the bad: I have no internet. Which is really confusing me because last night I did before I did the reinstall. So I am obviously screwing something up.

I tried so many things last night that I have no idea what worked and what didn't.

In the device manager, it says that the Marvell and Realtek [under network adapters] are fine - there's no big yellow thingy there.

When I try to set up a network connection, both the Marvell and Realtek are disconnected. How do I get them connected?

Also:
In the ATI setup for the SMBus - at the end of the installation, it said: setup did not find a driver compatible with your current hardware or operating system.

Um...dissconnected you say? Try control panel>Network & internet>network connections>rightclick one and see if you can "enable"

"USB2.0 and SMBus (unpacks drivers to C:\ATI, won’t install): http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/x...grated-xp.html "

The driver package won't install by itself. You have to start the install to extract the files then goto the location it extracted (me it was C: ) and start the install there

C:\7-11-igp_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_sb_gart_enu_54435\Driver\SBDrv\setup.exe

I actually think everything is working.

I have sound .. and I have internet finally. The only problem is with my wireless at home - but that's a completely different issue.

Dare I say it? It's working!

Thank you so much for your help!

Great news

verify in the device manager there are no "unknowns"?

Glad I could help

No unknowns!



Thank you so much!

The driver package won't install by itself, so how can I install the package after I have found the location it extracted too. Thank you for you time.

Yep, it is not supposed to install it self. So once you find the location it extraced to, mine was here "C:\7-11-igp_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_sb_gart_enu_54435\Driver\SBDrv", click setup.exe located in "SBDrv"

So run the driver you downloaded to extract the files.

Go to: C:\7-11-igp_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_sb_gart_enu_54435\Driver\SBDrv, or [location where they extraced for you]/Driver/SBDrv, and run setup.exe

Anymore questions just post :-)

baiacces, welcome to Techspot!

Can anyone help? I am working on a Gateway ML3109 for an elderly couple that live in my building as a favor.

I reformeated and loaded windows XP SP2, I downloaded all thge drivers listed below.

hizzouse.doesntexist.com/ML3109.html

and

robbray.com/gateway-ml3109-drivers-for-windows-xp/

Both where very helpful and I have everything working but the wireless.

I have the drivers outlied in the 2 posts above. They are installed and I had no errors. The device manager has only 1 bilg yellow ? mark on Pother devices, PCI Device.

Under Network adapters its shows two items
Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
Realtek RTL8185 54M Wireless LAN Network Adapter

Both show no red X's or Yellow ? marks. Both say they are working properly.

I can get on the internet with cable conection, but not wirlessly?

What am I doing wrong? I need some help, please!

see if this helps wrt to your Unknown Device problem

and as to your wireless problem;
- What make/model is the wireless access point/router you are trying to connect to?
- Is your wireless adapter enabled? Control Panel ->Network Connections what is the Status shown? Do you see View available wireless networks listed in the window under Network Tasks?

First is there a wireless icon (blue) by the touchpad? If the drivers are installed correctly and there aren't any other errors but still the wireless doesn't work. I would check that.

If it isn't lit you need to enable the wireless. Function key + F2