Driver Issues Gateway 7330GZ

Greetings all...

Info:
Gateway 7330GZ Laptop
Pent 4 (3.2GHZ)
1/2 G Ram
XP Pro SP3 (all updates)

A few months ago the hard drive on this unit crashed, massive clicking…. Tried everything to recover, including freezing the HD, didn’t work. I installed a new drive yesterday and used a recovery disk copied off the net for this model, no disks were made when the unit was purchased (not my unit, a friends). XP successfully installed, originally I was unable to get online to do any additional updates.

In device manager I had yellow ! on the following:
Other Devices
Ethernet Controller
Multimedia Audio Controller
Network Controller
PCI Modem
Video Controller
Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

Due to the amount of yellow ! I seem to think that the recovery disk, although it appeared to work, was not the right one. After I installed the Broadcom 440X driver I was able to get to the net and solve all yellow ! except “Other Devices \ Network Controller”.

Everything appears to be working correctly except the Wireless LAN. I have the Broadcom Wireless Utility installed but when I launch the Configuration Utility no adapters are present, I suspect the “Other Devices \ Network Controller” is the needed adapter. I have gone to the Gateway Support Site for the 7330GZ, pretty useless; the drivers for the network adapter (440X) were not the right ones so I assume that the wireless ones are not correct either.

Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated…….

Thanks in advance for your assistance

Crapgame
7 or 11

 

There is a problem with network driver , some users used the drivers from other series like 6000 Series Product Model: 6510 , read the article below

http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=55269

welcome !! :wave

 

Greetings Falconattack, thanks for your quick reply.

I found that same forum earlier yesterday, which is how I was able to solve the wired network adapter. Once I solved that I resolved everything except the wireless adapter….. Which is where I am now. Like I said earlier, the Gateway site is useless. I have tried installing the drivers from their site to no avail……

Your thoughts?

Thanks again for your assistance

Crapgame
7 or 11

 

Go Start - Run type ( devmgmt.msc ) - right click to yellow question mark - properties - details - navigate to hardware ids from bar menu - select all - copy - paste the code , the code is like this !! :cool

 

Greetings All.....

Well I thought it best to open the bottom of laptop to identify the card because the drivers listed in the Gateway site would not work. Wireless card is: Broadcom, PN: BCM94318MPG. I located and installed the driver from here: http://www.wireless-driver.com/broadcom-wireless-windows-driver-utility-ver51009142/

Problem solved, thanks again for all the assistance.....

Crapgame

 

Thank you for the feedback , we share our knowledge helping each other !! :cool

 

Thanks for posting back the fix and link to the driver... it may help another user/poster with a similar problem/issue.
Thanks also for using MG's for assistance in helping to resolve an issue, please create a new thread if you encounter any more issues in the relevent forum for more assistance or search the threads in the forums and try to assist some one with an issue that you have dealt with before.

iain.t :major