Gateway MX3414 - Drivers Needed

[EddieJ300]

Gateway MX3414 - Drivers Needed
Hard Drive has been wiped and drivers are not yet available on the Gateway web site.


Eddie

 

[bcastner]

For XP 64 or XP 32?

In any case, install XP and see what complains in Device Manager and/or the new hardware wizard. This gives you an automatic enumeration of missing drivers.

 

[bcastner]

You might find running a Belarc Advisor after installing XP a very valuable way of identifying new drivers that are needed and download links.

Belarc Advisor, free:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

If you have never used the freeware Advisor, it is just simple a great piece of audit software for analyzing the installed hardware and software on a workstation.

 

[EddieJ300]

XP Pro (32) has been installed device manager lists many devices that need drivers installed. Gatway has no drivers to download.

Eddie

 

[bcastner]

Use Belarc to provide back here the devices that are missing drivers and we can try to help.

 

[linney]

DRIVER NEEDED:

http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?p=50435

Reading the above tends to suggest that you may need to find someone with a similar machine who has the original hidden or recovery partition still on their drive?

See if you can find any Gateway Forum.

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?ie=UTF-8&q=gateway+forum&qt_s=Search

http://www.google.com/search?source...rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-48,GGLG:en&q=gateway+forum

 

[bcastner]

1. Download

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...=1&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&libid=3&fileid=149852

(Inspiron 9400 Audio driver for SigmaTel)
and

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...3&vercnt=3&formatcnt=1&libid=20&fileid=118437

(Inspiron 9400 Conexant modem)

2. Go to Device manager(right click my computer/properties/hardware tab)

3. Under system devices, you should have icon with an exclamation mark and "PCI Device" as text. Right click it and choose "Update Driver"

4. Use Install from a list or specific location, click the "Include this location in the search" and enter the path to the unzipped files you have downloaded at step 1.

5. Click next and watch the system detect your audio device and modem.

 

[EddieJ300]

Not looking for dell drivers. And really the most important driver would be for the NIC.

Eddie

 

[bcastner]

They are not DELL drivers, they are the drivers that linney's link suggested was needed for your Gateway: SigmaTel STAC 9200: 5.10.5082.0

Now if you could please state the Model NIC you have we can likely come up with a driver for it.

 

[bcastner]

This is your wireless network adapter driver:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2004111