Gateway P-7811FX drivers

Searching all over for the latest drivers (WinXP/Vista/Win7). Most threads and websites have links that are broken and it's difficult to find them. And past threads are too old to accept additional posts.

Any past/current 7811FX users here have any links or uploads that could be compiled on this thread?

Thanks.

 

Personally, I'm using WinXP Pro 32-bit and Zorin9Lite.

 

I wish you luck, but have to ask... What planet are you from? (WinXP Pro and Zorin9Lite user...).

 

Try this site...

http://us.gateway.com/gw/en/US/content/drivers-downloads

and type P-78 and that should bring up the drivers. Just make sure your pick 32bit or 64bit Version.

 

What Stormjumper said. For the graphics drivers though, you might be better off getting them directly from Nvidia.

 

Yeah, I found SP3 on http://www.majorgeeks.com.
The graphics card is known, so I got the drives from the nVidia site as is proper procedure, Np there.

The device manager shows 3 unknown devices still (plus mass storage controller). But the biggest problem -so far- is the sound, and all the solutions I've read up on don't work (or the links to certain custom files (Rancid) are down):

http://neonpulse.net/2008/03/06/windows-xp-on-the-gateway-p-6831fx/

No idea what kind of sound device this laptop has.. Intel(R), Conexant,
IDT/SigmaTel, Realtek,UAA Bus Driver.. Idk.

Stormjuper's link says it's for Vista, but I can give it a try. Any attempt to point device-manager to a source has been met with an instant "The hardware was not installed the wizard cannot find the necessary hardware."

 

Lol. I'm not giving M$ one more cent.

As for Zorin9Lite, I've been running it off the its boot CD and it's a wonderful OS. Fast, simple and I can almost play games on it. I wanted XP for the games.

 

Games, okay.

Keep in mind that you will always get more back than you give. Even when you give to MS.

 

Here's the overview..
The window to the right is the above linked Gateway driver page download (model "P-78"). Doesn't work, error: "Driver Installation failed: Could not find the device for this driver".

 

Vista drivers will load into Windows 7 just make sure if you use 32 or 64 bit drivers to match the Windows 7 O/S and you will be fine. That is what I did for both P-68, P-78 Gateway.

 

I wish there was a PM system on this Forum. There was a guy here called "Rancid" I guess.

Anyway, XP works for me ok, except for the sound, which I understand is typical. I found this:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/threads...fx-sound-driver-made-for-xp-64-bit-os.684024/

Being so old though, the links to files don't work. Anybody give me a hand with this?

Rancid?


Sincerely,
Me

 

The PM system here is called "conversations" and is only available when you've made 5 quality posts outside the off topic forums.


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Did you look at my post #4 and input your serial and model number that is the better way to find the driver you need.

 

"This Service is currently not available, please try later. Sorry for the inconvenience."

 

What do you mean service is currently not available?

 

If you go to that link and put in a search term, that is what is returned.

 

http://www.gateway.com/gw/en/US/content/drivers-downloads

Instead, first select "Notebooks" then "P series" and lastly "P-78" and a list will appear.

 

If I had only scrolled down a little.

 

Only lists Win7 and Vista.

 

This could be the turning point for moving to a slightly newer OS then?

(Hope someone is able to find you usable links for XP).

 

I guess I just had the misfortune of running into the rare situation where my machine just wouldn't take XP. XP is normally fine for my uses and games.

I'll go with Win7 if I can find it super cheap. I really want to see M$ go away. I think/hope their days are numbered.

Thanks all.

 

Not as rare as you may think.

I don't get your stance on MS though? Without the MS O/S you're using now, it seems like the games you're using would be unplayable at all, no?

MS will go away, eventually. But I want Windows to stay. Best O/S (Win10x64Pro) that I've ever had the pleasure to use (and use as I wish, with minimal coding/hacking and wishing for things to work differently...). And that hasn't changed since Windows 95, over 21 years ago.

I suggest you skip Win7 too. Buy the last O/S you will need on that machine; Win10x64Pro. Same cost (find a buddy that is still in school...), one time upgrade (make sure you do a clean install...).

 

XP was never officially supported and the same for variants of Linux. People have got either XP or Linux to work fine but there b is an amount of work there.

 

Users not doing their homework again...

 

I am glad they all do not. If they had 95% or better of the stuff I do would be taken care of.

 

Hey gang,

I'm going to bump this Thread one last time, k? People in the past have gotten WinXP to work with the FX-7811.

And could someone page Rancid to this Thread?

Thank you for you help.
CB

 

If that is the case why don't PM Rancid? Or give the links where to get all the drivers? And I doubt people in the "Past" got XP to work more like it was unstable and caused more problems then it helped. I know the real reason is they don't have Windows 7 Product Key that is why they can't use Windows 7 it's pretty obvious at this point in time that is the real reason. There are legit Windows 7 sellers you have to do the homework to find them and let go of XP that nows has more security holes and instability with XP then improving your computing experiences.

 

Agreed, W7 is much better even on this older platform than XP. Not that it can not be done but XP is well out of recent updates by now.

 

Have to agree. I tried going to XP when I first got my 7811FX but some drivers were buggy and I don't think I ever got HDMI to work under XP. So I stayed on Vist 64 SP3 (MUCH more stable the previous Vistas) until I had to move up to 7 because new versions of software would no longer support Vista.