I purchased a Gateway GT5628 when it was on sale at Buy.com for $599.99 with some coupons and free shipping so it looked like a great machine. My biggest problem was Vista, we have too much incompatible software and Vista is simply too latent when moving quickly from task to task which is what I do often. My first step was to remove Vista and try to install XP.

I immediately ran into a brick wall as the XP install would blue screen as soon as it went to start Windows for the first time. One thing I wanted to try was to upgrade the known buggy bios on the motherboard. DPP3510J.15A.0261.2007 was the firmware on it and the gateway bios revision site only had bios update tools that run through Windows for this Intel (Schroeder Town) G33 Motherboard BIOS Update: http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn&param=1014737R .

I wanted to do this without Windows so I found the intel bios update tool for the same board: Intel ISO / CD Based bios update tool . Intel has a really nice bootable iso that you can simply use. So I stripped the newer bios from the gateway exe file using 7zip, put it in the intel iso using poweriso and updated the autoexec.bat file to match. The result is a nice iso that updates the gateway board to the newest firmware without windows.

After the revision your bios should be DPP3510J.15A.0304 . I know some people say that you can use the Intel update directly if you find xxx bios and whatnot but I just wanted to update the bios reliably, quickly and without windows.

Download the iso by clicking here DP0304P.iso

This firmware update should also work for the following Gateway hardware:

Gateway GM5478 Desktop Computer [Part #1009570]
Gateway GM5485E Desktop Computer [Part #1009586]
Gateway GM5485H Desktop Computer [Part #1009597]
Gateway GT5214j Desktop Computer [Part #1014668R]
Gateway GT5216j Desktop Computer [Part #1014670R]
Gateway GT5218j Desktop Computer [Part #1014676R]
Gateway GT5628 Desktop Computer [Part #1014737R]
Gateway GM5632E Desktop Computer [Part #1014739R]
Gateway GT5636E Desktop Computer [Part #1014825R]
Gateway GM5638E Desktop Computer [Part #1014837R]
Gateway GT4220m Desktop Computer [Part #1014857R]
Gateway GM5643E Desktop Computer [Part #1014859R]
Gateway GT4222m Desktop Computer [Part #1014867R]
Gateway GT5226j Desktop Computer [Part #1014950R]
Gateway GT5228j Desktop Computer [Part #1014951R]
Gateway GT5092b Desktop Computer [Part #1014956R]
Gateway GT4224m Desktop Computer [Part #1015181R]
Gateway GT5236j Desktop Computer [Part #1015197R]
Gateway GT5240j Desktop Computer [Part #1015202R]
Gateway FX7024 Desktop Computer [Part #1015229R]
[Part #1015336R]
[Part #1015350R]
[Part #1015351R]
[Part #1015427R]
Intel (Schroeder Town) G33 Motherboard [Part #4006194R]
Intel (Schroeder Town) G33 Motherboard [Part #4006269R]