I lel'ed at this, what it means is that when you first turn on your 3DS system it has to say 4.X , meaning a firmware that's not higher than 4, the 7.1 part comes in when you put the gateway card in the 3DS and boot into gateway mode then you can update the 3ds to 7.1, but theres a new firmware out 7.2 which you don't want to update to ( which I did accidently so don't feel too bad) so your 3ds has 4.X and your Gateway NAND is 7.1, im guessing your console was already on 7.1 when you bought it because if you updated it would be on 7.2, just box it back up and see if you can get a refund, go on ebay and type in "3DS Gateway" and a whole bunch of 3DS/XL's will come up with 4.X firmware, That's my solution for you, if not you'll have to wait till Gateway releases an Update for 7.1 FW, which I think is going to take quite awhile. Good Luck!