gateway t1620

Ino · 01-18-2008, 11:09 AM

Thank you guys, im also planning to use xp on my t1620 . I already downloaded all drivers you have suggested, is the wifi driver included there? i use wifi in posting this and it is my only connection. will it work after i installed all those 12 drivers? diabase said that he needed to update windows for wifi drivers. how can i get those?i dont have ethernet
thanks

Diabase · 01-19-2008, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ino

Thank you guys, im also planning to use xp on my t1620 . I already downloaded all drivers you have suggested, is the wifi driver included there? i use wifi in posting this and it is my only connection. will it work after i installed all those 12 drivers? diabase said that he needed to update windows for wifi drivers. how can i get those?i dont have ethernet
thanks

See Resolver1's post 01-12-2008, 03:30 PM for the wireless driver he used here: gateway t1620

Ino · 01-20-2008, 05:21 PM

Great! i'll start installing tomorrow and start studying how Clonezilla works now.
Thank you all.

bunnywinkles · 01-24-2008, 04:53 AM

the more i look at it the more im realizing my xp shouldnt work...but for some reason it does... i think my computer has a brain (cpu) like me, it just knows that its gotta work so it pulls it off, i installed like 6 drivers and all the ! ponts went away so i was happy, it crashes sometimes when watching movies but thats ok dont bother me too much. iTunes works absolutely fine for me. everything ive thrown at it has ran fine, yet i have like half the stuff you guys do... it just weird... its like the internet... it shouldnt work... but it does...

Resolver1 · 01-30-2008, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Diabase

Sorry your missing Vista. That's one of the reasons that I've recommended using software like Clonezilla. I hope you have a copy that you can roll your system back to. I'm not surprised that Thief Deadly Shadows doesn't run well because the video card in the Gateway t1620 system isn't very good.

I can't really call the GPU 'bad', I would call the game's programmers 'bad'. I just installed Crysis for laughs to see how slow it would run, and the funny thing it runs better than Thief on higher resolution (800x600). I can only get descent frame rate on 640x480 resolution, other wise it won't go above 20 frames, and I'm comparing a current gen game that has more physics in one tree than Thief has in its entire level.

Diabase · 02-02-2008, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Resolver1

I can't really call the GPU 'bad', I would call the game's programmers 'bad'. I just installed Crysis for laughs to see how slow it would run, and the funny thing it runs better than Thief on higher resolution (800x600). I can only get descent frame rate on 640x480 resolution, other wise it won't go above 20 frames, and I'm comparing a current gen game that has more physics in one tree than Thief has in its entire level.

Thanks Resolver1 for the news about Crysis.

I'm still amazed how often great games are released with so many errors. I agree, much of my hardware processing power in the past seems to be used to compensate for simple coding mistakes in games.

I ran the Crysis System Requirements Lab from the Crysis web site and it gives a PASS for all Gateway t1620 systems. I admit, I am surprised.

I notice the Vista minimum system requirements for Crysis are higher than the XP minimum system requirements. (i.e. 1.6 GB RAM for Vista, 1 GB RAM for XP.) It looks from the Crysis System Requirements Lab results that Crysis can use the dual AMD 1.8GHz CPU as though it was a 3.64 GHz CPU!

I think I'll try out Crysis on my Gateway t1620.

mirous · 02-09-2008, 05:10 AM

Hi all, first thanx to all, I was able to get my 6824 down to XP. With sound :-)

But I tried to play a little bit. And I have an issue with clonezilla sw. I have backed up all original Vista stuff on USB hdd. That worked fine and I have all images I made. the problem appears when I want to get the image back on laptop SATA drive. I'm able to start clonezilla, map usb drive as source and than it shows me just one option to go as target drive which is "sdc1" partition. But my SATA drive partition where I want to put the image back is "sda1". Anyone knows the way?

mirous · 02-09-2008, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by mirous

Hi all, first thanx to all, I was able to get my 6824 down to XP. With sound :-)

But I tried to play a little bit. And I have an issue with clonezilla sw. I have backed up all original Vista stuff on USB hdd. That worked fine and I have all images I made. the problem appears when I want to get the image back on laptop SATA drive. I'm able to start clonezilla, map usb drive as source and than it shows me just one option to go as target drive which is "sdc1" partition. But my SATA drive partition where I want to put the image back is "sda1". Anyone knows the way?

Got it !! I connected the USB hdd back to the second machine and I figured out, that all files of image are named sdc1..... So I renamed to sda1... and it works fine. I am just wondering why clever Clonezilla:
1) does not allow me to plug an image to different partition
2) why it named the image of my first parition on my only disk as sdc1

any hints? thanks.

jacklazara · 02-09-2008, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Resolver1

You tried but ultimately failed. All of those links except one don't work, fix them.
Here is a comprehensive guide I made for some of the stuff:

1.Audio- http://support.gateway.com/support/d...&uid=183438670 Click on the link and then press "Download Now" (it's in red). It's a zip file so it will extract all the stuff into C:\cabs\D00758-001-001 and in that folder just click on Setup.exe
2. Video- For video you can use Omega Drivers http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=F...&dwn_cat_id=14 click on Radeon Omega Driver 4.8.442 It's an executable so just follow the stuff on screen. The drivers from Dell wouldn't install, but if you do it manually they work.
3. Network Ethernet- http://www.softwarepatch.com/utiliti...k-rtl8100.html it's an executable I believe;
4. Camera- http://support.gateway.com/support/d...&uid=183748963 it installs the same way as Audio drivers.
5. Wireless- http://www.opendrivers.com/freedownl...-download.html zipped up folder with setup.exe inside.

I'll work on the rest, I'm having issues extracting cab files though.

nice! thanks forr info

jacklazara · 02-09-2008, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ino

Thank you guys, im also planning to use xp on my t1620 . I already downloaded all drivers you have suggested, is the wifi driver included there? i use wifi in posting this and it is my only connection. will it work after i installed all those 12 drivers? diabase said that he needed to update windows for wifi drivers. how can i get those?i dont have ethernet
thanks

yeah wi-fi is included

02-09-2008, 05:10 AM	#57 (permalink)
mirous New Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 4	Clonezilla Hi all, first thanx to all, I was able to get my 6824 down to XP. With sound :-) But I tried to play a little bit. And I have an issue with clonezilla sw. I have backed up all original Vista stuff on USB hdd. That worked fine and I have all images I made. the problem appears when I want to get the image back on laptop SATA drive. I'm able to start clonezilla, map usb drive as source and than it shows me just one option to go as target drive which is "sdc1" partition. But my SATA drive partition where I want to put the image back is "sda1". Anyone knows the way? __________________ Gateway M-6824

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01-18-2008, 11:09 AM	#51 (permalink)
Ino New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	Thank you guys, im also planning to use xp on my t1620 . I already downloaded all drivers you have suggested, is the wifi driver included there? i use wifi in posting this and it is my only connection. will it work after i installed all those 12 drivers? diabase said that he needed to update windows for wifi drivers. how can i get those?i dont have ethernet thanks

01-20-2008, 05:21 PM	#53 (permalink)
Ino New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	Great! i'll start installing tomorrow and start studying how Clonezilla works now. Thank you all.

01-24-2008, 04:53 AM	#54 (permalink)
bunnywinkles New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 6	the more i look at it the more im realizing my xp shouldnt work...but for some reason it does... i think my computer has a brain (cpu) like me, it just knows that its gotta work so it pulls it off, i installed like 6 drivers and all the ! ponts went away so i was happy, it crashes sometimes when watching movies but thats ok dont bother me too much. iTunes works absolutely fine for me. everything ive thrown at it has ran fine, yet i have like half the stuff you guys do... it just weird... its like the internet... it shouldnt work... but it does...