Recently, I had a customer who needed XP installed on a Gateway MFATXPNT ESX e4000 – originally, it came with Win 2000 Professional. Putting XP on a computer is no big deal, but sometimes finding the right drivers can be. In this case MPC computers has purchased some of the Gateway models, and of course the drivers for this model are not listed on Gateway’s website.
*Note: MPC is out of business.
The only driver that gave me any issue was the sound driver. However, if you “manually” install the driver using the “Have Disk” function, then it will install just fine.
If you have any questions or want a zipped copy of the drivers that I used, comment to this post or email me.
UPDATE 1-2-2009:
It appears that MPC is going out of business. Here is a download link to the XP Drivers that I used. If these drivers or this post help you out, please let me know.
UPDATE 2-25-2009:
Reposted driver downloads directly from my site. Sorry about that to anyone who attempted to download them and couldn’t.
UPDATE 3-5-2009:
Added screenshot of audio “have disk” manual driver installation. Click image for larger version.
IMPORTANT UPDATE 6-18-2009:
Received an email from Steve at www.mpcdrivers.com and www.mpctechsupport.com – looks like he has a great site with virtually all drivers for the Gateway – MPC models. If you are looking for additional help or these drivers don’t work, take a look on his site.
Best of all they are provided for free – like mine. If his site helps you out, make a donation to help him out.
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Rex, great blog you have going here. Unlike most others I haven't had any problems getting the drivers but I have a different problem. Whenever I attach a device via a USB port the pc reboots. It didn't do that initially but is occuring now and I haven't an idea as to what the problem is. Do you have any idea?
Can someone help me with my hard drive problems? I have tried a new IDE Cable and still give me the hard drive not detected error. The hard drive works well in another working computer. I'm not sure about how to reset the BIOS. It's a gateway esx e4000.
those drivers are for the E-4100
We need drivers for the E-4000
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those drivers are for the E-4100
We need drivers for the E-4000
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The drivers I posted have worked fine on 12 E4000′s that I have plus several people that have hired me to remote in and setup theirs from this blog post. The E4000 and E4100 typically have the same hardware components.
I’m not sure about the E4100 though as I haven’t specifically set one up with XP. In case you are confused, I posted a pic of the tower so you can clearly see the model number of my machines that use the exact same drivers posted.
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