Just Picked up 7811 - Installing Fresh Vista 64-Bit

Hi. I just picked up a P-7811 FX machine today from BB. Couldn't believe the price plus have 2 years no interest! YAY!

Anyhow. I have a Vista 64-bit CD that I would like to use with my Vista keycode from my 7811. If I do so, what apps will I need and where can I get them to reinstall. I'm assuming there's something that drives all the extra buttons on the keyboard, etc.?

 

You won't need the key, the Installer will automatically detect it. You can get all the stock apps and drivers from your laptop before you format it by creating a Driver/App DVD. If you click start, and then Gateway Recovery Management or something like that, you'll see what I'm talking about. Or, you can ignore that and just download the drivers that I've posted up, burn them to a CD or put them on a flash drive, and format and reinstall away.

The link to the drivers is in the official info thread.

 

Yeah, those are called drivers. You will need to go to gateway's website and make sure there are 64 bit drivers for your system before you reload it.

 

All the drivers provided from the recovery are 64bit compliant as the notebook ships with home premium x64, so he doesn't need to check anything from gateway.

 

I got all the drivers from this forum, I had a copy of 64 ultimate laying around that I got free from microsoft, so I installed that

 

Actually, Gateway still doesn't have them up. They only have guides on how to install Norton, AOL, etc. . . Unless I'm looking in the wrong spot.

Your best bet is to create a recovery disc. The owner's manual will show you how. If not, there a tons of threads around here with 64bit Vista drivers for the 7811FX.

 

Hey, HTWingnut, welcome to the FX family!

 

Thanks everyone.

Thanks KGann.

Not sure if I'm sold yet. I haven't opened the box as it was a somewhat impulse buy. I was reading about it, and have been wanting something a little more powerful than my Vostro 1500, although I'm sure it'd suffice for the next year with 8600m GT DDR2, but some games might be questionable.

Either way, looks like a very powerful machine. I'm about ready to trade in my desktop to offset some of the cost too.

 

Its a fantastic machine for the price for pure DTR notebook. the 9800GTS destroys the 8600GT GDDR2 card.

 

I just installed a fresh copy of Vista 64bit on my newly 7811. **** simple. First make the apps/driver CD (also recommend doing the factory restore CD, mostly for resale purpose), install Vista with the provided Gateway disk, then use the apps/driver CD to reinstall all the drivers. The improvement w/o bloatware is amazing.

 

yeah my vista boot does load "ding ding" before the vista load theme of bum buuum boo bum (something like that, you guys know what im sayin) finishes lol

 

I'm in the process of doing the clean install with the provided Gateway CD. I'm creating my recovery and the Apps/Drivers CD as I'm writing this. So after I do the clean Vista installation, I will put in the Apps/Drivers CD that I created and it will automatically install everything from that CD? Or will I get to choose what to install?

 

You get to choose, which is good since all your really want to install are the drivers. The apps are pretty worthless.

 

Great! Thanks

 

One question. In the CD I created for the Apps/Drivers, I see a setup folder and a x64bit folder and there's a setup in there also. Which one should I be choosing? Sorry
And also there is a "Nvidia VGA UMA" and "Nvidia VGA Discrete". Which one should I install? Should I install everyhting in the CD I created?

 

depends on which version of vista you installed. 32 bit, go with the regular setup folder. 64 bit go with the x64bit folder.

 

I didn't know that. Hmm. I installed the 64bit version.

 

no problem. just tryna help.

 

Diablo also as I wrote above, there is a "Nvidia VGA UMA" and "Nvidia VGA Discrete" folder along with the Marvel folders. Which ones should I install? Should I install everything that's on the CD I created?

 

if you arent looking for updated drivers, go with the vga discrete folder.

otherwise, for updated drivers, go here

 

I will install the stock drivers for now so I don't have to install the Nvidia VGA UMA driver, right? I wonder why is it on the CD then?

 

good question. let me know if installing the discrete drivers doesnt pan out.

its my understanding that discrete (in reference to video cards in laptops) are stand alone cards which is what the 7811 has.

 

W O W T H A T D V D D R I V E I S L O U D ! ! ! How Is Yours? Huh? What'd You Say?

 

Can somebody please tell me what drivers to install or not to install from the CD I created? There's Intel wifi then there there's Intl Wireless LAN Shirley Peak. Then there's Marvel LAN NIC, Marvel Wireless LAN WN6500M. What are these? Should I install all?
This is confusing

 

should be all you need right here

 

Thanks for the link. I now have Ethernet Controller under the device settings which has an exclamation mark on it. Anyone knows which driver is for it?

Update: I did it. Thanks for the help diablo.

 

no problem. i may not own the laptop, but ill **** sure help you find the resources you need for it.