I have an old Gateway windows xp that I upgraded to windows 7 the upgrade works fine except for the sound there is no sound device so I click the the speaker which has X on it and I tried windows update. did not work. it says I am missing a mass storage contoller driver. I can't find this on the gateway site and have not found this on any site. Does any one know how to fix this
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The original poster, tripp, upgraded a Gateway computer from Windows XP to Windows 7 and is experiencing a missing sound device issue, with the system indicating a missing mass storage controller driver. Sonny suggests using a third-party driver tool called DriverMax to find and update the necessary drivers. Trouble adds that the missing driver might be related to chipset or similar components and recommends checking various drivers from Gateway or the device manufacturer, noting that older drivers from XP or Vista might sometimes work.
The original poster, tripp, upgraded a Gateway computer from Windows XP to Windows 7 and is experiencing a missing sound device issue, with the system indicating a missing mass storage controller driver. Sonny suggests using a third-party driver tool called DriverMax to find and update the necessary drivers. Trouble adds that the missing driver might be related to chipset or similar components and recommends checking various drivers from Gateway or the device manufacturer, noting that older drivers from XP or Vista might sometimes work.
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Sonny
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You might try using DriverMax a third party for finding drivers. If all you are looking for is the driver for mass storage.,use the free version. Worth a shot.
DriverMax - free driver updates
DriverMax - free driver updates
Trouble
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You may also want to consider that such a driver may also be identified with another name perhaps something like chipset driver or something like SmBus, so you may consider downloading many if not most of the drivers available through Gateway, but if your computer / mainboard is truly old you may have issues with drivers updates and you will need to identify the particular device manufacturer to see if they have anything current that you can use. In some cases older XP or Vista drivers have been known to work well enough, but may lack some more current features and fixes, so it's always best to get one that is as current as possible.
