Bought the Gateway M-6827 Laptop

[AmpedSilence]

So, I bought the Gateway Laptop from Office Depot thats on clearance this week. After using Vista for a few days, I pretty much hate it. I almost threw the machine out the window on Monday I was that angry at it.

Anyway, the price is right and the specs are good. I also have a few XP Pro keys laying around that are not activated yet. I tried to install XP on there, but the hard drive was not recognized.

So, are there XP drivers for this laptop out there?

TIA! 🙂

 

[IlllI]

check the gateway website?

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: clandren
check the gateway website?

no go, went there first. only has Vista drivers. Though, there are drivers for the SATA for XP, so maybe the rest are already in XP?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: clandren
check the gateway website?

no go, went there first. only has Vista drivers. Though, there are drivers for the SATA for XP, so maybe the rest are already in XP?

its hard to keep up with laptops, linking to the specs is always helpful

like this

if the sound is a no-name device, or something generic or oddball, there may not be an XP driver available. i would think youd find what you need for everything else without much trouble.

if you have restore media(or want to make a system image yourself) you can just throw XP on and find out if you can get everything to work. if you cant, put vista back on.

or, if you get a linux live cd, you can use gparted to resize the vista partition down, install and try out xp, and go from there.

 

[IlllI]

ok this is what you need to do, but it will take some work:

first you need to look in the device manager, or whatever vista calls theirs.
each device should have a product name and or id

write those down.
the main ones would be for graphics, ethernet, wireless. audio and chipset for the motherboard

after that you can go to each manufacture's website and dig around for the appropriate drivers.
most of them will probably be from intel so that should save some time looking

 

[AmpedSilence]

got it to work, Windows Update found all the drivers once i got the wireless card working.