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I have a Gateway MT6452 Notebook that came installed with Vista. &nbsp;Vista has crapped out, and being sick of dealing with it, I have resorted to &quot;downgrading&quot; to Windows XP. &nbsp;However, Gateway will offer XP compatible drivers. &nbsp;I have contacted Gateway's Tech Support and come up that the motherboard (which has the built in sound card) is a UMA Motherboard with the ATI RS485M chipset and 1394 (FRU). &nbsp;However, I can find nowhere to download the appropriate XP drivers for this motherboard. &nbsp;I am almost to the point of installing Vista again (ugh). &nbsp;For the love of all things right in the world, please help me.
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I have a Gateway MT6452 Notebook that came installed with Vista.  Vista has crapped out, and being sick of dealing with it, I have resorted to "downgrading" to Windows XP.  However, Gateway will offer XP compatible drivers.  I have contacted Gateway's Tech Support and come up that the motherboard (which has the built in sound card) is a UMA Motherboard with the ATI RS485M chipset and 1394 (FRU).  However, I can find nowhere to download the appropriate XP drivers for this motherboard.  I am almost to the point of installing Vista again (ugh).  For the love of all things right in the world, please help me.

Need help finding XP compatible drivers for a Gateway Laptop

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