Gateway M-Series Problem

[jakezzzt]

Hello Everyone,

I have a Gateway M-6750 Laptop. Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 250GB Western Digital Hard Drive and originally came with windows Vista Home Premium.

Now, some how the hard drive does not have anything on it. I tried installing windows vista but it keeps freezing at the splash screen. I've tried 3 different windows vista dvd, all of which work well on other systems but still got the same problem.

Now, I ran memtest86+ twice, western digital data tools and even installed a new hard drive. Memtest85+ passed with no errors along with WD data tools. To top this off, slax boots up pretty fast and I also install ubuntu and it worked fine. I also tried installing windows 7 but the latop frooze after a short period of time.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

thanks!

 

[Gunbuster]

You need to be more decriptive. Where is the freeze happening? The BIOS splash screen? The DVD booting the install splash screen, someplace else?

 

[jakezzzt]

freezing occurs a short while after windows vista or windows 7 starts to install. I can get in setup and did load bios defaults etc.

 

[Billb2]

If Gateway never sold the laptop with those OSs, then it's likely all the drivers you will need aren't available.