Vista Tutorial - Vista 64 bit recovery disc on a wiped hard drive.

I'm working on a Gateway LX 6810-01 and he completley reformatted his hard drive. He ordered some factory discs to restore to factory settings but when it loads it up it just hangs.

I made a vista 64 recovery disc and it loads up.. When it does it asks for the Dvd/cd Rom driver.

The device is a HL - DT - ST DVDRAM GH15F SCSI Cdrom Device

It lets me serach for it and flash drive is an option and I have one handy, however I can't just find the driver I need and put it on this flash drive for the computer I'm working on.

What can I do to get this going?

it should load it from the dvd, i have looked only but can't find a driver for yeah sorry.

Actually I got it. It was actually asking for a sata raid controller.. Hell I don't know.

I found it on the Mobo's chipset drivers that I had to put into a flash drive.

But I have a new issue now. Nothing has changed with that cpu's hardware.. I got all the drivers and everything from gateway for that model and I dowloaded a program called speedfan to moniter temperatures.

For some reason my temperatures keep going way above normal even ideling.. The GPU runs at 68c degrees and the 4 cores run at 60c then once it gets around there it just shuts off..

I checked the gpu fan and all of the other fans and they are running. What should I do now?

Right now I have a house fan running on it while it's open while keeping a game up to see how lon it will run before it shuts off.

what shuts off?

The whole computer. It depends on what gets hot first.. if it's the cores.. it shuts the cpu down.. if it's the GPU it just freezes.

are all the fans and heatsinks clean and dust free? my first thought would be the power supply is spiking or got a power spike and hurt something in it or the MOBO is going bad

Yeah it's all clean.

I have some voltage readings here. I don't know if they will help. Thats a little out of my knowledge when it comes to this.

voltage is a bit out of my area also

BRINK maybe you could lend your helping ways on this!

Yes call fourth this BRINK, I need some help here. It's even hitting temps of 68c with a home fan running on high.

I picked up this system last week. I was appalled at the lack of cooling. I headed out to CompUSA and grabbed 2 case fans, 1 HDD cooler, 1 GPU cooler, and one generic fan to circulate. After doing all this, my temperatures are fine. So, my point to this post...get some fans. All the fans I got connected with the regular power supply cables. I just kept adding em on. If you have this system, either return it, or install at last 3 fans. The hottest temp is the GPU, and that's about 56deg Celcius.