Recently, I had a customer who needed XP installed on a Gateway 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.To save you some time and trouble, here is the page that has the XP drivers (see screenshot):
http://support.mpccorp.com/apps/filelist.asp?ID=18140
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.
Labels: xp installation
posted by Rex Moncrief at
7/23/2008 09:08:00 AM
8 Comments:
Thanks for this!!!!
Bought several of these PC's from a 'going out of business' auction. No HD's or RAM. Like you I got down to the sound card. MPC is not helpful for finding this driver at all.
...one more reason to dislike Gateway.
Thanks for the help!
You are very welcome. If you have any trouble installing the drivers, reply back. I will do what I can to help you out.
dear god, thank you for the information. I was losing my mind till i found this!
I thought that I would never find the audio driver, thanks so much for the help
This is a great article and a life saver too. I've been looking for those drivers for 4 weeks now. I finally got the PC working. Thanks Rex Moncrief.
My PC info is: Gateway E-series FLEXATXSKH ESX E4000 P04 (Slimline)
Hi,
None of those sound drivers work and my pc is the same one that you are talkig about. Only the number in the readme douznt match mine. mine is RG84510A.15A.0037.P15.
when i do the have disk then i get this message "the specified location does not contain your hardware"
Please help me asap! If you need more info then just let me know.
Hi russianred95,
Are you sure you used the "have disk" button to force the sound driver to work? I had the exact same problem, but the driver should work. If you can't get it to work, let me know and I will try to post a pic or video of installing the sound driver manually.
Updated the post since it appears MPC will be shutting its doors. There is now a direct download link from my website for the XP drivers that I used.
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