Good day, Saw your post about driver issues.
http://support.gateway.com/support/d...n¶m=EL1200
Hopefully that might help you. Also you can rearm your vista 'trial' period from 30-120 days...so don't worry bout running out of time to register/activate your copy!
Look here also:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000778.html
shows you how to rearm vista trial length.
Lemmie know if you need more help!
-scooter