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Gateway LT 21 from Win 7 Starter to Win 7 Ultimate troubles
First i would like to say hello to seven forums members.
Ive recently purchased a gateway LT21 netbook, it came loaded with Win 7 Starter. everything was working great. but after i upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate, 3 drivers would not work properly on the machine.
the copy of ultimate is geniune non OEM specific.
the first driver is the WLAN driver, Atheros AR5B95. the card sometimes see's networks but after 10-20 minutes it disconnects and doesnt see any networks anymore. i try enabling and disabling the card + hitting the repair button but to no avail.
sometimes i need to restart a couple times in order for the card to work.
second is the Launch Manager. all shortcut buttons are working except for the FN+F2 which turns the wireless card on and off.
the 3rd driver is the synaptics driver. i see no options is its configurations except for the left and right button.
oh yes, dare i mention that i formatted the entire HD for a clean installation and i ignorantly deleted the recovery partition.... and now gateway wont send me a recovery CD unless its to my old address (the one i got it shipped to) and currently im overseas....
please yelp