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    Gateway P-6318U Sata Drivers

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by duxdad, Mar 21, 2012.

  1. duxdad

    duxdad Newbie

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    Trying to load a new OS on HD, no restore disks and unavailable from Acer. I have tried to slipstream any drivers I thought might work. Sata bios is set to compatibility mobe. I have no idea whose Sata chip is used , pretty sure no intel.
    Any idea's
    Thanks
     
    duxdad, Mar 21, 2012
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    TreeTops Ranch Notebook Deity

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    You didn't say what OS you were installing. Doesn't Win 7 install generic SATA drivers? What was your problem?
     
    TreeTops Ranch, Mar 21, 2012
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  3. duxdad

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    I would like to install any OS :) I have tried Vista, XP and Win7.It came with Vista. As I understand this is one of the few machines that uses a SATA driver not in the MS standard editons. So far without the restore disks generated by the computer it is not working.
    Gateway has a SIL Sata driver listed but it is not listed as a good driver when the windows installer ask to "load" a driver.
    Would love to find a set of real restore DVD's
     
    duxdad, Mar 22, 2012
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  4. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    You mentioned W7, it may be easier to use the USB method. You will need a 4G stick and MS usb tool.

    You will have to call Bill and fork over the upgrade money. I assume, love that word, that your restore partition is history and you don't have a retail W7 disk?
     
    hydra, Mar 22, 2012
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    I have tried XP, Vista and Windows 7. As there is no SATA driver for whatever chip it is none of these will install saying needs driver for the HD. The HD is fine as I connected it to another computer and was able to install an OS.
    Keep those suggestions coming :)
    David
     
    duxdad, Mar 22, 2012
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    TANWare, Mar 25, 2012
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    I got that error, last month, when doing a dry run on my Toshiba but not on my Asus which does not have DVD drive. I use the USB method, so I had to go back into BIOS and boot from USB..problem gone. Note that this was W7 to W7, no upgrade, just clean install. Also, I had problems due to bad drive format.

    I have not tried W7 on my old FX, so interested if driver from Tanware or other works for you.
     
    hydra, Mar 26, 2012
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    Lykos Notebook Consultant

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    [1] Put the sata drivers on a USB stick.
    [2] Reboot into Disk
    [3] Profit.

    As long as your sata drivers are somewhere the computer can look they will work. I had to do this to reinstall Windows 7 at one point when they wouldn't read from my disk. It's a lot simpler then making a bootable USB driver.
     
    Lykos, Mar 27, 2012
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    The model I am working with is P6318U different than the model you mentioned. Mine is:
    Gateway Support - P-6318u Gateway P-6318u Notebook

    but the link to the drivers is broken. I tried a retail version of XP, Vista and Win 7 and none have the SATA driver required. This unit requires a SI3531 driver which I have found, I am thinking I may need to purchase a retail Vista and slipstream the driver.
    ANy more suggestions?
     
    duxdad, Mar 30, 2012
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  10. TANWare

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    There is in the link I provided a SATA driver and it saves fine here. For the ACHI there is an intel driver..............
     
    TANWare, Apr 4, 2012
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