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Posted by pwinggles on January 24, 2008, 10:33 pm
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A friend of mine recently downgraded his Gateway MT3421 to XP
Professional from Vista Home, and didn't consider the possibility that
Gateway is never any help with anything useful, so alas, it is my task
to find appropriate XP drivers. I have tried the "pick a random MT
model and hope XP is native on it" approach, and have not had any luck.
I have heard that this information is in abundance in some forum
somewhere, but I can't seem to find that as well. Any help on this
would be fantastic as this is a time-sensitive issue. Again, all I am
looking for are some leads (or straight up answers!) as to which model
has appropriate XP drivers that will function properly on his Gateway
MT3421.
Thanks,
Pwing
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Posted by BillW50 on January 27, 2008, 9:40 am
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pwinggles typed on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:33:29 -0600:
> A friend of mine recently downgraded his Gateway MT3421 to XP
> Professional from Vista Home, and didn't consider the possibility that
> Gateway is never any help with anything useful, so alas, it is my task
> to find appropriate XP drivers. I have tried the "pick a random MT
> model and hope XP is native on it" approach, and have not had any
> luck. I have heard that this information is in abundance in some forum
> somewhere, but I can't seem to find that as well. Any help on this
> would be fantastic as this is a time-sensitive issue. Again, all I am
> looking for are some leads (or straight up answers!) as to which model
> has appropriate XP drivers that will function properly on his Gateway
> MT3421.
>
> Thanks,
> Pwing
I wouldn't think of changing the OS or reformatting and installing the
same without pulling off the original drivers first. You can use the
free DriverBackup to do this. Many of Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
drivers are the same.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
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Bill
email: change kom to com
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Posted by John Doue on January 27, 2008, 3:37 pm
Please log in for more thread options BillW50 wrote:
> pwinggles typed on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:33:29 -0600:
>> A friend of mine recently downgraded his Gateway MT3421 to XP
>> Professional from Vista Home, and didn't consider the possibility that
>> Gateway is never any help with anything useful, so alas, it is my task
>> to find appropriate XP drivers. I have tried the "pick a random MT
>> model and hope XP is native on it" approach, and have not had any
>> luck. I have heard that this information is in abundance in some forum
>> somewhere, but I can't seem to find that as well. Any help on this
>> would be fantastic as this is a time-sensitive issue. Again, all I am
>> looking for are some leads (or straight up answers!) as to which model
>> has appropriate XP drivers that will function properly on his Gateway
>> MT3421.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pwing
>
> I wouldn't think of changing the OS or reformatting and installing the
> same without pulling off the original drivers first. You can use the
> free DriverBackup to do this. Many of Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
> drivers are the same.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
>
Bill, this is good advice and the OP would probably have done what you
suggest, given the chance. But now, he needs to get this machine back to
work with XP.
I suggest to the OP a three pronged approach which helped me do that
"upgrade" (in my view) a few weeks ago.
1/ Use Everest or Aida (free, but replaced by Everest, which is not) to
identify the hardware and get some useful links for drivers.
2/ visit www.driveragent.com. Ok, it is not free, but even if it is not
100% reliable (it may tell you some drivers which perfectly work need to
be updated; don't do it unless you have a good reason to!), the drivers
it will help you find make it worth the money.
3/ Use the utility DriverGenius. Not free either, but again, same
reasoning as with driveragent.com
Be careful to correctly identify the driver files you will download and
which ones you install, it is very easy to lose track of what has been
done, what works, what does not.
Making a backup of all registry configurations which appear to work is
also a good idea.
Good luck.
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John Doue
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Posted by BillW50 on January 27, 2008, 4:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options John Doue typed on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:37:20 GMT:
> BillW50 wrote:
>> I wouldn't think of changing the OS or reformatting and installing
>> the same without pulling off the original drivers first. You can use
>> the free DriverBackup to do this. Many of Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
>> drivers are the same.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
>>
> Bill, this is good advice and the OP would probably have done what you
> suggest, given the chance. But now, he needs to get this machine back
> to work with XP...
True, but it might be possible to restore the OEM Vista just to pull off
the drivers.
> 3/ Use the utility DriverGenius. Not free either, but again, same
> reasoning as with driveragent.com ...
I also use DriverGenius and DriverBackup does the same thing except it
is free.
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Bill
email: change kom to com
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Posted by John Doue on January 28, 2008, 4:47 am
Please log in for more thread options BillW50 wrote:
> John Doue typed on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:37:20 GMT:
>> BillW50 wrote:
>>> I wouldn't think of changing the OS or reformatting and installing
>>> the same without pulling off the original drivers first. You can use
>>> the free DriverBackup to do this. Many of Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
>>> drivers are the same.
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
>>>
>> Bill, this is good advice and the OP would probably have done what you
>> suggest, given the chance. But now, he needs to get this machine back
>> to work with XP...
>
> True, but it might be possible to restore the OEM Vista just to pull off
> the drivers.
>
>> 3/ Use the utility DriverGenius. Not free either, but again, same
>> reasoning as with driveragent.com ...
>
> I also use DriverGenius and DriverBackup does the same thing except it
> is free.
>
I do not know Driverbackup, but DriverGenius, besides backing up
drivers, helps find the ones that are missing or need updating. Does
Driverbackup do this too?
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John Doue
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