mrham
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| [Vista] Could This Work?
OK, I bought a Gateway MT6451 laptop from a friend. It has Vista Home Premium.
I had to do a complete recovery to be able to install/delete software. I did all the updates, etc, to be sure it was up to date.
This Vista is a royal pain, folks!!. I have never seen an OS that has you go around your butt to get to your elbow, so to speak.
So, I am curious to find out if I were to use the device manager to get a list of all the hardware by mfgr/model, and get the Xp drivers for them, can I "downgrade" to Xp, and have everything work? Or would Xp have these drivers in its legacy drivers list? |
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DOStradamus
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Santa Rosa, CA | ATI Radeon RS485M Video Driver - ATI's website
SigmaTel 9250 Audio chip -
Intel 10/100 Ethernet - Ships with XP
Motorola Modem Driver - Probably ships with XP -- modem chips are "old stuff"
-NK |
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mrham
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Here is the "complete" Device Manager listings:
GATEWAY MODEL MT6451 Laptop
Device Manager Listings:
Disk Drive: ST 9120824A ATA
Display Adaptor: ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
DVD/CD Rom Drives: Optiarc DVDRW AD-7530A ATA device
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers: IDE channel / Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers: Texas Instruments OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Memory Technology Driver: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Integrated Flashmedia Controller
Mice & Other Pointing Devices: Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad
Modems: Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem
Network Adaptors: Broadcom 802.11g Network Adaptor / Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
PCMCIA Adaptors: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
Processors: AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technology TL-50 / AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technology TL-50
Sound, Video, & Game Controllers: Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec
Storage Controllers: Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
ATI/O Communications Processor USB 1.1 OHCI Controller
ATI/O Communications Processor USB 1.1 OHCI Controller
ATI/O Communications Processor USB 2.0 OHCI Controller
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub |
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DOStradamus
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Santa Rosa, CA
| GATEWAY MODEL MT6451 Laptop
Drivers you'll need, and their links:
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150
»game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal···rated-xp
Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
»www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDi···erId=175
Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec 9250
Might be included with XP -- we can get that one later
Broadcom 802.11g Network Adaptor
»broadcom.com/support/ethernet_ni···vers.php
-NK |
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mrham
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Thank You DOStradamus, for your help with this.
Should I presume that the WiFi card and the memory card reader will work also?
I found nothing as to a mfgr,etc for them.
Also, there was only Sigma Tel High Definition Audio Codec.
Where did the 9250 come from? an Update? Just curious.
Here is the URL to the Gateway specification site:
»support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/200···p2.shtml |
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joako
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Under Windows XP you also want to install the ATI chipset drivers and AMD CPU driver. Otherwise its possible that you could have problems related to the power management.
Modem drivers can be hard to find, but Windows Update has most of them.
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