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Okay, this is going to be kinda long. This laptop was gave to me a by a friend who said it was broken. It is a gateway md7818u. It had a disc in the cd rom labeled, "gateway, disc 1 of 1" the computer powers up, but does not boot into an operating system. It gives message, "no operating system" it had windows vista sticker on it. Tried to put vista on it and it gets to where it is finalizing install and either shuts down or gives error message, 0x0000007b, 0xf78d663c, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000. Tried the gateway disc and get the same. I had a windows 7 laptop that broke, so as an afterthought I put the hard drive in this laptop and it booted right up. Of course, I keep getting the message that this copy of windows is not genuine which is understandable since it was not intended for this pc. But I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue or a software issue. Any help will be greatly appreciated, and sorry for the long message.

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bama_48 said:
Okay, this is going to be kinda long. This laptop was gave to me a by a friend who said it was broken. It is a gateway md7818u. It had a disc in the cd rom labeled, "gateway, disc 1 of 1" the computer powers up, but does not boot into an operating system. It gives message, "no operating system" it had windows vista sticker on it. Tried to put vista on it and it gets to where it is finalizing install and either shuts down or gives error message, 0x0000007b, 0xf78d663c, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000. Tried the gateway disc and get the same. I had a windows 7 laptop that broke, so as an afterthought I put the hard drive in this laptop and it booted right up. Of course, I keep getting the message that this copy of windows is not genuine which is understandable since it was not intended for this pc. But I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue or a software issue. Any help will be greatly appreciated, and sorry for the long message.


Hard drive problem - controller / driver
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop...

ksiemb said:
Hard drive problem - controller / driver
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop...

Sorry I'm so late getting back to you, been very busy today. Okay, I solved my problem of getting os on the laptop. As it turned out, I had a windows xp pro edition with service pack 3. Stuck it in cd drive, presto!, it installed. The only problem now is getting on the internet as it didn't install any network drivers. Do you have any suggestions on how to install drivers? Thanks

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bama_48 said:
Sorry I'm so late getting back to you, been very busy today. Okay, I solved my problem of getting os on the laptop. As it turned out, I had a windows xp pro edition with service pack 3. Stuck it in cd drive, presto!, it installed. The only problem now is getting on the internet as it didn't install any network drivers. Do you have any suggestions on how to install drivers? Thanks

Here's the gateway support site. Choose your model & look for lan drivers.
http://support.gateway.com/product/?cmpid=supportnav
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ksiemb said:
Here's the gateway support site. Choose your model & look for lan drivers.
http://support.gateway.com/product/?cmpid=supportnav

Got everything working now ksiemb except graphics, audio and wireless connection. I got the network adapter downloaded nd it is working okay, and the drivers for the wireless also downloade but will not connect to the internet. I'm using the computer now with wired internet connection. I will try the link you gave me and thanks a mil for your help.
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