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re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 6:38 am
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Posted by GraphicQueen (9 messages posted)


OK, I found these sites.

http://www.vincentwagner.com/DrGizmore/

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=259200&start=15

Is this all of the drivers I would need for XP?

GQ






On Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:03 am, outofpocket wrote:
>I agree w Alex. You will need xp drivers. A quick check of the Gateway site is
>not too encouraging. They have one driver for the card reader, and offer others
>that *may* work. I have seen several laptops that were made for vista NOT have drivers
>available for xp. The vendors make components specific for an OS and don't always
>make drivers for earlier OS's. It's a good chance that that unit won't work under
>xp. A google check
>http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-44,GGLJ:en&q=Gateway+MX8738+xp+compatible
>indicates that there is a chance that all the drivers are available, but you would
>have to do the legwork of finding and loading everything.
>Good luck. HTH
>Outofpocket



Written in response to:
re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (outofpocket: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:03 am)

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*re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (alex: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 1:13 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (GraphicQueen: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 2:40 am)
-re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (alex: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 3:01 am)
-re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (outofpocket: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 5:03 am)
*re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (Joe: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 5:22 am)
-re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (GraphicQueen: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 6:38 am)
*re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP (alex: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 1:13 pm)
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