Gateway MT6840

Has anyone bought this laptop and tried finding the drivers for Windows XP? I really want to buy this and I just want to know if I can find equivalent drivers for this laptop.

Thanks.

 

I would not buy a gateway if I were you. I would look at HP for most needs, for gaming i would consider alienware, sager, and others on powernotebooks.com or cyberpowerpc.com - just trying to help, gateway is one of the worst brands you could buy.

 

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Then, I might stick with a Dell for reliability.

 

Glad I could help, let me also reccromend HP, they have exelent support and products! But dell is good too

 

While I don't reccomend Gateway particularly. But I don't understand why you're (ahl395) even in the Gateway forum to begin with. I own this particular Gateway simply because the price to value ratio was extremely high.

I do agree though, if you're going to fork down $1,000 or more (or less) on a laptop; I wouldn't get a Gateway.

Although, to Gateway's credit - aside from the keyboard (pretty shotty - especially left shift key), the build quality pretty dang good. Maybe not as good as Lenovo or such, but good.

Gateway typically has excellent values in their computers for people that don't want to spend a bunch on their computers. If my computer was original price ($750) I wouldn't have bought it.

 

I got my Gateway 3707 on sale at Best Buy for $599. Using Dell's site to build a similiar computer it would have been over $1100. The HP's in the price range of my 3707 were no where near as featured as my Gateway, and thier build quality didn't impress me. I love my Gateway, and it's build quality is very good. Coming here and making blanket generic statements with no proof to back it up doesn't help anyone.

 

Yeah I love my gateway too. Quality, specs, and price were all great.

 

MX6453 Hundreds (at least $300) less at the time than anything close, no real problems. Tech support polite but read from a script. Unless you expect to have problems customer support matters only so much. Unless hardware type problem you can get support on the forum. I suspect level of knowledge on forum is higher than any company, Dell,Lenvo,HP and all the rest!

 

I bought mine last week at Best Buy for $600 bucks. It's a tremendous value for the money. Came with Vista Premium, which I discovered is very sweet.

Interestingly enough, the specs say it only supports 2GB of memory total, but I pulled out the 2 1x512 clips in it and replaced it with 2 1x2GB and it sees the entire 4gb (a gateway pre-sales tech, told me it would do this).


Buddy Stein

 

i bought mine last week from best buy also and so far its held up quite well, i think blanket statements are quite misleading given the few bad apples scenario prevalent in computer manufacturing . . . i thought 600 was a great deal on what was provided

 

I'm looking at getting this machine as a budget gaming laptop. Mainly for strategy games like Civilization and C&C.

Is it worth $750? Or is there a machine better suited around that price?

 

I cannot find network drivers for this laptop(gateway mt6840).
It is supposed to be an intel proset. I tried downloading from gateways site and also from intel site. The intel setup stops installing and claims it can't find any intel network card. If I manually try to install the driver, it will not take.
I brought the laptop to where I could get wireless and tried windows update by no luck there.
If you get this laptop and downgrade to XP you will only have wireless internet the wired Lan will not work with any drivers.
There is also a PCI device that I haven't found drivers for either.
All other drivers on Gateways site work.

 

You need to do a search for Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller Drivers. (XP version)

 

Here it is:
Windows XP/2003 x86 Driver (32-bit) for Yukon Devices v10.27.4.3
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=103&pId=3

Download: yk51x86_v10.27.4.3.zip

Good Luck.

 

Thanks nulke!

 

I found - have every thing but sound & dial up modem -- driveragent.com [its $30.00 and works so-so]

 

I got this computer on Semptember 2007. I bougth in a business travel to US (I'm from Brazil). Unfortunatly, I'm having eye irritation and fadigue with its Ultrabright Widescreen WXGA TFT (1280x800) display.
Do any one have similar problem? How do you solve it?
I tried to use glasses. No results....
I bought a filter (unfortunatly, it was a filter for the old convencional displays). No rresults...
I tried to change the refreshment rate, but the only option showed is 60MHZ, even if I lower to 800X600.
The Gateway support didn't give an useful information yet. And I'm seriously think in pay more for a better product next time.

 

If it is a laptop, you my be able to lower the brightness by using the Ftn F4 keys, the F keys are along the top of your keyboard, hold down the Fn key the press the Fn key with a sun symbol on it. All laptops are diffrent, but thats a start.