I have a Gateway VX-700 17" CRT monitor on my old GW Win 95a desktop. The monitor is several years old. Lately, it's beginning to blink (going black) for a half-second...blinking two or three times. Then it's fine for awhile. It first did this when booting up. Today, it started blinking after...

My wife ordered a Gateway 320S notebook. I have a copy of Norton 2002 AV that came on a CD with another 3-year old Gateway laptop. I believe it's a 90-day trial program. Would it work to install that copy of Norton 2002 on the new laptop and then subscribe on a yearly basis afterwards? Or does...

MOBO is G/W Tabor III from late '99. I have just replaced my Powerleap PL-ip3/T 1400 Celeron slot 1 CPU Upgrade due to it having overheated and gone U/S. (I ended-up having to re-fit my P III 500 Mhz from a couple of years back) Anybody know if it is possible to independently replace the...

Took apart this laptop to clean up a wine spill. I was surprised to find the CPU colling unit has no thermal grease, just a black mettalic type tape on a copper square press fit onto the CPU. WHen I put this back together, should I get thermal grease? I maybe old fashioned to expect some grease, I...

I just bought a 'new' PSU for my Gateway Performance 800 and am amazed at how much it's cost me! As I live in the UK and Gateway are un the US now and the only place to buy the PSU was from Skyline Engineering (US). The actual PSU was £46 (UK), but the delivery was £52! To cap it all, I had to...

I'm setting up a Maxtor 250GB external drive to restore the hard drive on several of my computers in case any of the drives fail. I have two questions: 1. I want to set up multiple partitions on the Maxtor drive. In Win XP, under Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Disk Management, it looks...

I was watching HSN, and they had a Gateway rep promoting one of their better desktops for $998. Upon opening the case, he remarked how upgradeable the Gateway is...saying that cheaper computers often come with a hard drive that's "soldered to the motherboard". That's a new one on me. Any...

I have a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402 that is acting up. It is five years old. No driver update available and I have uninstalled/reinstalled. It will not stay closed. It originally started having problems reading a disk and has progressed to the tray coming right back out. Devise Manager shows...

my disk clean up doesn't work. it starts up and than freezes up. is there anything i can do? thanks

Bear with me, this is lengthy. I have discovered a problem with the Gateway install of XP MCE in my 832GM that thus far Gateway is unwilling to resolve. This may affect you, too, cuz it may be endemic to all Gateway MCE boxes, and maybe even all Gateway XP and e-Machines XP boxes. I ran the...

Can anyone tell me where (file name, etc) the history entries from the Internet Express address bar are stored? I'm having a problem with my ISP and have to re-logon periodically after which the history file is apparantly reset - nothing shows when clicked. The odd part about it is the web...

Well, my fun continues with my eMachines combo drive. After 5 chat sessions that led to hours of various steps, including using the restore disk (to no avail, but much software reinstallation!), I finally convinced them to send me a new drive. I installed it, and everything initially worked...

Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the group. It might save you some money and downtime. MOBO is G/W late '99 vintage Tabor III originally fitted with Pentium III 500MHz CPU. M/C stopped working, no display whatsoever, not even a raster, knew form the sound that it was not booting...

I have read so many negative comments about Gateway and their machines that I thought for a change I would post a positive comment just so newbies might know there are people who have been happy with their machines. In Oct 98 I purchased my Gateway G6 333 mghz with a EV700 monitor. I have used...

I am trying to bring back to life a M505 laptop that got wine spilled on it. It seems that the keyboard took the brunt of it and taking out the keyboard did not find any damage to the MB by visual inspection. The computer power button turns on and the fan turns, but stops there. Not even the...

Hi Group can anyone offer me some tips on CD recovery software that works? I have tried about 8 (trial versions) so far they all say they can recovery if I pay anywhere from 29.95 to 59.95. If anyone knows of one that really works please let me know. TIA Ray

Got Office 2000 Pro installed. If installing Office 2003 Pro, do I have to uninstall version 2000 before installing version 2003 or can version 2003 handle version 2000 being there? Thanks in advance.... Ed

I added 64 mb to the original 64 mb but I don't think the system is recognizing my new memory. Properties in new computer is still showing only 64 mg. On a reboot I notice a 32 mb memory on opening boot screen. From what I've read the system should automatically update the new memory upgrade. I...

I am looking for the win 2000 drivers for this card as I will be changing OS's from win 98se to win 2000 soon. The site www.voodoofiles.com is having problems and on the download link sends me to a German "search" engine site. tia dee.

Ok, A friend of mine gave me his old P75 gateway 2000 computer. After my hard disk died on me (an old 500 meg caviar drive) I went and got a couple of Maxtor 2.5 gig drives. Now I find that my computer doesn't support drives over 500 megs an I need an update or something to fix that. Maybe flashing...