Half way there... HELP?

SnoWhite7 · 07-10-2008, 09:27 AM

We had a HUGE hard drive crash last night. Switched hard drives, recovered crashed drive files by installing it as the secondary drive. Whew-there were 2 unfinished weddings that weren't backed up on that drive.
OK so, here's my new problem. I switched the main drive on my gateway e2000 to the secondary and I am using a hard drive that had came out of my kids' e-machines. I know, I know... It is working beautifully except it needs a driver for the following: video controller, multi media controller and ethernet controller.
I went to dell.com and they do not list the e2000. In searching i was told the e2100 drivers should work. OK. Nope. Not working for me.
Dell will scan and figure out what I need-if I could get on line with it! HELP?? At least get me back on line with it so I can get help from dell?

dai · 07-10-2008, 10:03 AM

put your serial in here
http://support.gateway.com/support/d...s=Windows%20XP

SnoWhite7 · 07-10-2008, 02:40 PM

I did that before. Gateway doesn't even recognize the serials from the E2000 series machines.

dai · 07-11-2008, 03:06 AM

what ethernet chip is in it

07-10-2008, 09:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
SnoWhite7 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	Half way there... HELP? We had a HUGE hard drive crash last night. Switched hard drives, recovered crashed drive files by installing it as the secondary drive. Whew-there were 2 unfinished weddings that weren't backed up on that drive. OK so, here's my new problem. I switched the main drive on my gateway e2000 to the secondary and I am using a hard drive that had came out of my kids' e-machines. I know, I know... It is working beautifully except it needs a driver for the following: video controller, multi media controller and ethernet controller. I went to dell.com and they do not list the e2000. In searching i was told the e2100 drivers should work. OK. Nope. Not working for me. Dell will scan and figure out what I need-if I could get on line with it! HELP?? At least get me back on line with it so I can get help from dell?

07-10-2008, 10:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,609 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Half way there... HELP? put your serial in here http://support.gateway.com/support/d...s=Windows%20XP __________________

07-10-2008, 02:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
SnoWhite7 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	Re: Half way there... HELP? I did that before. Gateway doesn't even recognize the serials from the E2000 series machines.

07-11-2008, 03:06 AM	#4 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,609 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Half way there... HELP? what ethernet chip is in it __________________