Missing Driver

[Matthew Armshaw]

Hi,

I dual-booted my Gateway laptop successfully, loading XP on one partition
and Vista on the other. When I bought the laptop it came with XP and a mail
in coupon for Vista - so both operating systems are specifically made for
this machine.

Presently, when I boot to XP I recieve a message from Windows saying it
needs to locate driver for PCI. Ive tried loading the driver from the XP disk
that came with the CPU, but it doesn't seem to have what xp is looking for.
I've also tried Windows Update. Where can I look for this driver?

 

[Jim]

Hi,

I dual-booted my Gateway laptop successfully, loading XP on one partition
and Vista on the other. When I bought the laptop it came with XP and a
mail
in coupon for Vista - so both operating systems are specifically made for
this machine.

Presently, when I boot to XP I recieve a message from Windows saying it
needs to locate driver for PCI. Ive tried loading the driver from the XP
disk
that came with the CPU, but it doesn't seem to have what xp is looking
for.
I've also tried Windows Update. Where can I look for this driver?

Gateway is the only likely source. Do you mean that there are no PCI
drivers in \Windows\System32\Drivers?
Jim

 

[smlunatick]

Hi,

I dual-booted my Gateway laptop successfully, loading XP on one partition
and Vista on the other. When I bought the laptop it came with XP and a mail
in coupon for Vista - so both operating systems are specifically made for
this machine.

Presently, when I boot to XP I recieve a message from Windows saying it
needs to locate driver for PCI. Ive tried loading the driver from the XP disk
that came with the CPU, but it doesn't seem to have what xp is looking for.
I've also tried Windows Update. Where can I look for this driver?

PCI What? PCI is not just a straight device. The is the PCI bus,
part of the chipset drivers and then there is the possibility of
several other devices that can connect onto a PCI slot (part of the
PCI bus.)