P-172s FX drivers gone!!! need help with wireless

so i recently did a reformat of my laptop to clear out any unwanted programs and i went to go reinstall all the drivers and most install but 2 both from realtek arnt working and the big problem is theyre the most important two. its my wireless lan driver and a chipset driver, i have followed the instructions to a t but ntohing works i followed gateway helps instructions to no avail, i cant get the recovery center back it seems to be compleatly gone. i really need help with this. i need to get the drivers installed

 

did you try installing gateway recovery center by following the guide in the following thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=257866

if that still doesnt work for you, look for them on gateway.com

 

for some reason the recovery center wont install again i tried acessing it in dos but to no avail, and i got the drivers off the site problem is they dont install

 

Have you tried to download the drivers from gateway.com/support ? You can look under any of the P- FX series laptops.

 

i have the drivers only thing is evne when i follow the read me it gets to a certain point then i get an error
i just rechecked gateway and under 'my downloads' theres like 40 differnt configs for the same thing, not sure which to download

 

just to add when i go to install the driver theres no setupfile it has to be done manually. the readme file says to extract into C:\\cabs\\the folder\\

then it says to type c:\\cabs\\thefolder\\preinstall.cmb into the start menu search and to hit enter, the file shows up i nthe search its in the right spot yet when i hit enter or click on the file it does nothing, its supossed to come up with a UAC prompt

 

wait you sure there are supposed to be double backslashes in that address? you might want to try w/o the double backslashes, they seem odd.

 

no there arnt, i was typing from memory since this isnt the problem one, but i actually fixed it myself i had to delete a bunch of old files

 

goto your C drive click on the cab folder, thats where all your drivers you downloaded are, go into each folder, you will find the setup file in each, make sure you uninstall the driver you want to replace first. Go into
device manager, and look for the wireless driver, see if it has a ! next to it, rightg click on it and uninstall it, then reinstall your correct driver. Side note: If there is nothing worng with the existing driver, then check you wireless network, and make sure the wifi switch on the front is on, many posters forget that.

 

grats on getting it to work