Old Gateway Ma7 laptop vs Windows XP

McKennan McCall

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Nov 27, 2015
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Long story short I was given this old laptop - had vista - constantly locked up - didn't have original Vista install disk - made a windows xp bootable USB - Got everything working besides internet explorer and audio. For some reason, when I try to access the audio mixer, it says no audio device. Gateway doesn't hand out the Ma7 drivers anymore and I don't know which drivers this laptop needs for XP.

Internet Explorer: Anytime I try to go to a website other than the default website, it says "The page cannot be displayed." I even disabled firewall. Please help.

P.S. My resolution is stuck. I have a 1280 x 600 or something for the laptop and I can't change it to that.
 
Doesnt matter if you dont have a dell. If the drivers are for the audio it'll work

Sometimes, if I cant find a driver ( I had to find one for the fingerprint reader here). Because the driver it came with didnt work with Windows Hello. The drivers didnt give me the option to scan my fingerprint.

In the end I found one on the Acer site and it worked