Gateway MX6438 My sound on my Gateway laptop sounds really bad. In the hardware section there are no yellow checks for any kinda hardware problems. Is it possible to have errors on my sound driver. Additionally, my system has slowed overall even after i put one gig of memory into the system. Any solutions?

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You can download the Gateway laptop drivers from this WEB site.
http://driver-pro.com/related/english/hardware-drivers/?a=12221&gclid=COmm19XHtpwCFSMSagodPRuwnQ&hit=1

You can also try :-
Driver Guide
http://driverguide.com

Sounds like a hard drive issue. Take the hard drive out and put it back in again and try it. Hope that helps.

There's nothing cheaper than fixing the dc jack again, but if it's smoking it sounds like a sinking ship.

Motherboard swap is gonna be the only way out of this mess unfortunately.

u might refresh the system by installing new windows also check the speakers for bad sound.

use RAMBooster 1.6 . will solve your problem. use registry mechanic to repair the registry errors.

Uninstall the dvd/rw driver, and reinstall it from the Gateway website. Look for your laptop model there, and they have all the drivers and software for your laptop components.

Gateway's Official Driver Website

Hope that helps ya, just type in your serial number and away you go...

If you have the CD Driver of your laptop, try to install your Sound Driver. Just look for the Setup.exe or if it doesnt have a setup.exe and you want to install it manually, go to Control Panel and open Add Hardware, if your computer detected that the sound needs driver showing a critical icon(yellow triangle with exclamation point). Just browse the CD so that the computer will know where to find the sound driver. If you dont have a CD of your sound driver. Go the Gateway site. This is the support download site of Gateway : http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/ddaStep.asp?Tab=All ----Just complete steps 1-5 and you can download your sound driver.