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| mx6421 gateway driver confusion , please help i am working on a Gateway mx6421. when i got it, it wouldnt fully start up ..... contiunous errors. person im doing job for wanted the machine totally erased and windows reloaded..... he had the windows but not the drivers... that was fine ive downloaded drivers... everything went fine ...one thing i guess... there was a recovery partition i erased all made one and installed windows on it ...beautiful..... go to device manager and start download and loading drivers... things went ok , until i hit the sound card , and the "network controller". everything else loaded fine... welll i went on the internet and found a work around for the sound card(it seems this is an persistant issue) well no matter what ido i cant load the "network controller" under the specs for this machine it really doesnt give a good description of the driver or the hardware.... ive tried over and over to get this driver loaded, to no avail.. i then downloaded the gw recovery program ... it also found that this wasnt loaded ..... said it was a broadcom driver..... dowloaded from them and had it auto install which it didnt... tried implementing as described with the cmd .... said it loaded but it didnt..... rebooted and tried afew more times still when i have the GW recovery program search and update still no driver.(or in device manager)..... kind of at a dead end .... not totally but pretty burnt up.... any help would be appreciated thanks mike :crybaby: |
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| Re: mx6421 gateway driver confusion , please help "freetomove" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message news:12kss6a1tsgea38@news.supernews.com > i am working on a Gateway mx6421. when i got it, it wouldnt fully > start up ..... contiunous errors. person im doing job for wanted the > machine totally erased and windows reloaded..... he had the windows > but not the drivers... > that was fine ive downloaded drivers... > > everything went fine ...one thing i guess... there was a recovery > partition i erased all made one and installed windows on it > ..beautiful..... > > go to device manager and start download and loading drivers... things > went ok , until i hit the sound card , and the "network > controller". everything else loaded fine... welll i went on > the internet and found a work around for the sound card(it seems > this is an persistant issue) > > well no matter what ido i cant load the "network controller" > under the specs for this machine it really doesnt give a good > description of the driver or the hardware.... ive tried over and > over to get this driver loaded, to no avail.. > > i then downloaded the gw recovery program ... it also found that this > wasnt loaded ..... said it was a broadcom driver..... dowloaded from > them and had it auto install which it didnt... tried implementing as > described with the cmd .... said it loaded but it didnt..... rebooted > and tried afew more times > still when i have the GW recovery program search and update still no > driver.(or in device manager)..... kind of at a dead end .... not > totally but pretty burnt up.... > > any help would be appreciated > thanks > mike :crybaby: Google the following: Broadcom 802.11b Network Driver 02/18/2005, 3.100.64.1 MarvellNT.5.1 - SysKonnect SK-9821 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter version 06/06/2005 I don't know if they work for that model, but it does for a MX6124. -- Bill |
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| Re: mx6421 gateway driver confusion , please help "freetomove" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message news:12lkn6mrsgkol08@news.supernews.com > can someone help please! I did over a week ago: > Google the following: > > Broadcom 802.11b Network Driver 02/18/2005, 3.100.64.1 > > MarvellNT.5.1 - SysKonnect SK-9821 Gigabit Ethernet Server > Adapter version 06/06/2005 > > I don't know if they work for that model, but it does for a MX6124. So what happened? -- Bill |
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