Fresh install of Vista64 and no recovery partition to load drivers...HELP

Could you offer any advice on how I go about getting my P6860FX drivers. I found some drivers on the gateway website but I still don't have quite a few things working like Keyboard extra keys (media button, brightness level, etc) and also I now have extra drives that were never there before (removable).
Thanks

 

goto the P-6031fx drivers, there are alot that are 32/64bit
they will work for you

 

Did you mean P-6831fx?

 

Yes, I am sorry, too many P-bababa, lol

 

what drivers do you need?

 

itata,

I have one item in my device manager that is unknown and i don't know what it can be.

 

can you take a screenshot of your device manager

 

http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=227917799/PictureID=4988275469/a=130480457_130480457/t_=130480457

 

download driver genius and run it, see if it finds the driver for you...

http://www.driver-soft.com/

 

yep...can't see a thing and am not about to sign up for an account....

but it's probably your raid controller, from what i can barely see...

 

I would download all the drivers from gateway that you think it might be, and install one at a time untill you find it. I am sure you know which ones you do have installed, so that leaves just a few. I know all the fresh installs I have done, its the media reader, Blue tooth, sata driver, intel raid driver, or the realtek lan driver. I bet you

 

I have now downloaded all the drivers from gateway. The intel raid driver is giving me problems installing, saying my hardware dosent meet standard required to install. Also, I'm constantly getting an error with my sound driver, sta??? file cannot work properly.

any further help?

thanks so far for your help.

 

This is the audio driver I am using on all my Vista 64bit P FX laptops

http://support.gateway.com/support/...dio Driver version: 6.10.5713.0&uid=195456478

Raid Driver Vista 64bit;

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...dows+Vista*+64&lang=eng&strOSs=150&submit=Go!

 

the raid driver is still saying my system dosnt meet the requirements to install

 

Which vist do you have 32 or 64bit?
You can get the raid driver off the gATEWAY SITE TOO, OR CALL GATEWAY SUPPORT, AND ASK THEM WHERE TO DOWNLOAD IT

 

Sorry for the caps

 

I'm using Vista 64.

I have now downloaded all the gateway drivers from the website and still have no luck finding that unknown device.

 

I would like to thank everyone who offered their help, especially Flynnaz. I ended up taking the laptop back to best buy and getting a replacement P6860. I know better now, already backed up the drivers and apps under the gateway recovery. When I get a day I will reinstall the OS and use the recovery disk to reload my drivers.

When speaking to the Best Buy/Geek Squad member he also told me of a problem with the Gateway laptops they are selling and that is the USB2.0 driver from gateway not working correctly. Maybe that was my problem. Hopefully it won't happen on my next fresh install.

Thanks.

 

I am glad you have a laptop ready to go now, sweet!