Well, i reformated my P-7811 FX (Help)

And the wireless card will not pick up any internet connection, so i am using a different computer in the house at the moment, do i need to download a certain driver to a disk and bring it my computer?
I was told i have a 5100wireless card, but regardless, i couldn't find the correct driver for it.
Also, once i do have internet on my computer, does this mean i could just go to device manager and update them all automatically using the internet?
No i did not back up anything, this was a big mistake.
The reason i reformated in the first place was because while windows was booting i would get a random blue screen and it would restart immediately, then asking to put in safe mode because windows was not shut down properly etc etc, but since i reformated, im not sure what i should be doing now, please help ASAP
And thanks in advance

 

This thread may be of interest; http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=287180

 

go here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=265740

And you can get most of your drivers...the gateway website will have the rest.
For the most part.

You really should have made your recovery DVD though. Some of the drivers Gateway uses are bloody hard to find. I dont know if you kepty your recovery partition, but if you did make a point to clone it and back up your drivers.

 

Correct, except i do not know which one to download, and when i did download it i put it on a disk, and on my other computer, and i can't open it, keeps saying look for appropriate program or w/e, then after i downloaded 7zip which was reccomended by the thread creator, and it said it does not work with my Proccessor, should i just download Winzip and put it on the disk as well?

 

Well, I'd suggest WinRar, it unzips virtually any compressed file type.

Okay, well which Vista are you running, 32 bit or 64 bit? This will give us a start.

 

im not sure, but when i reformated it asked if i wanted 86bit or 64bit, and ive reformated twice now trying both, which should it be on? How would i know if im running 32 bit or 64 bit?

Edit: Sorry when it comes to driver's and stuff like this, im pretty illiterate.

 

Dizzam! And here I was thinking I was cool cause I run 64bit!

 

Well, which one did you select. . . 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64).

64 bit is the one that came factory installed. It supports all 4 gigs of your RAM, but some programs don't work for 32 bit.

32 bit is the other option. It only supports 3 gigs of RAM, but it supported by all software.

Whichever one you want to be on, is your choice. I started at 64 bit, but had trouble with game installations, and some porgrams, so I switched to 32 bit. I lost a gig of RAM in the process, but I now receive support for all programs. I'd say for now, stick to 64 bit, unless you have some weird programs which demand 32 bit support.

Give him a break. . .

 

Well right now i reformated with a 64bit, but would it be better for me to reformat again and go back to 86bit like i had it originally? i didn't even see a choice for 32bit.
But anyway, after this question, whats next? Thanks alot btw everyone.

Edit: Btw, iv'e had 4 gigs on 32bit, and 4gigs on 64bit.

 

To clear things up, there is no 86 bit. It's x86, but that's 32 bit. In my opinion, stay on 64 bit.

Here is the Wifi driver for 64 bit Vista: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det... Vista* Home Premium, 64-bit version&lang=eng

Once you download it, send it to a flash drive and send it to your laptop. Install it, and bam, you should get internet.

Yes, what I meant was you'll have 4 gigs physically on both. But, 32 bit Windows can only virtually recognize/utilize 3 GB of RAM. 64 bit can recognize and use all 4 GB of RAM.

Hope this helps.

 

Ok im trying this out atm, ill let you know how it goes.

 

Worked like a charm, ty my man
i was about to bring it back to best buy, i probably wont look at this thread again, considering im really busy, but i hope you have a good feeling for helping me out, im really glad u took the time to help me out <3 thanks alot man i appreiciate it alot more then you probably think