Found this site just today and saw this question. I have 3 of these Power supplys on back order, with my rep calling me yesterday tell me the Date is May 15. They have built a new assembly line to handle just these power supplys because of demand. She did tell me that is the latest, May 15, but...

Very grateful for advice anyone can give me. 5 year old Gateway Pentium 3 500 Motherboard uses Intel 440BX chipset There are 3 memory module slots One of these contains one 128 MB SDRAM DIMM memory card There is a 100 MHz front side bus I'd like to increase to 512 MB RAM Tried Dick Smith...

Does any one know if a Nvidia TNT2 16MB PCI Video Card will work in an old Gateway P5 133. I tried two different tnt2 cards, neither had video and would not awake the monitor out of standby. One was detected by the computer and I was able to install the drivers, the other one was not. I have a...

I need to replace a faulty CD ROM drive in my laptop. I've found a place that sells them. Now - will the opening of the case (multiple screws etc) be obvious or are there some things I should be aware of? Is there any site with any kind of directions? Or do you think this will be ok for a guy...

I originally posted a message asking if buying a gw laptop was worth it. From the many messages In this group, I've surmized the following: 1. stay away from the Solo line of laptops. lots of quality problems 2. people seem concerned that gateway is going belly up 3. gateway tech support is...

Okay.., I got a dead Solo 9300 VE off of eBay for a couple bucks, and the unit arrived with working memory, floppy, battery, and CD drive.., but no HD. So.., I used my HD from an old Solo 2300 which fit okay, and it has Win 2000 on it. Next.., I have another Solo 9300 which I used it's A/C...

I have a Gateway 500 se 1.6 ghz 250meg ram, pc that when I turn on the system the gateway logo boot screen flashes on and off and the sys fail to boot XP. The system in the past has booted intermittently with a lot of file registry errors. When I got the system it had a lot of file errors and...

I bought a Gateway Solo 1450 Laptop used from someone I know for $300. Unfortunately, the pin on the power jack is broken off, so I can't plug it in to charge the battery. Can anyone give me explicit instructions on how to get the motherboard out so I can put on a new jack? I am fairly good with...

hey all, im in the process of installing a 19" component rack from middle atlantic. im have a gateway media center pc (820GM) that i would like to switch chassis to a rack mount type that has room for hdd expansion and has enough cooling capabilities. i have a D915GSE btx motherboard and i would...

I posted earlier about putting a bigger hard drive into my GP6-400. I'm running Win98FE with the Powerleap 1.4 Ghz processor. BIOS is 4W4SB0X0.15A.0019.P14, which I believe is the last one available for this system. I bought a WD 80GB drive and used WD's Data Lifeguard Tools to set it up and...

We have an ancient Gateway G6-450 desktop computer. Pentium II processor, 384MB of RAM. It connects to the Internet via a wireless USB adapter. The G6-450 came preinstalled with Windows 98FE, but was upgraded a couple of years ago to Windows ME. My mother uses the machine for email, typing a...

I have a DOS invoice program that prints fine with Win95 and Win98. However, I could never get it to print from my Gateway 700X desktop with WinXP Pro...until I read a tip in PC World that said to "enable printer pooling". First, I configured my HP Photosmart (USB) printer connected to this PC. I...

I have a Gateway VX900 1998 from new. It has started to flicker occasionally (never done this before) and was wondering short of borrowing a monitor off a friend or changing my video card, are there any tests that I can do in order to check (or prove) that the tube is going south?

I haven't installed SP2 on my Win XP desktop or notebook yet. I have a Linksys wireless network. I'm thinking of acquiring Windows 2000 and installing it on another computer in the house. The Win2000 installation includes SP2. Is there any way that the SP2 on the new machine might affect (in a...

I haven't installed SP2 on my Win XP desktop or notebook yet. I have a Linksys wireless network. I'm thinking of acquiring Windows 2000 and installing it on another computer in the house. The Win2000 installation includes SP2. Is there any way that the SP2 on the new machine might affect (in a...

I haven't installed SP2 on my Win XP desktop or notebook yet. I have a Linksys wireless network. I'm thinking of acquiring Windows 2000 and installing it on another computer in the house. The Win2000 installation includes SP2. Is there any way that the SP2 on the new machine might affect (in a...

I have a Gateway G6-450 desktop PC, purchased in Jan. 1999. It's a decent old machine, but the fans, or something inside of it, is rather noisy. While shopping at Circuit City recently, I came upon this...

I have problems with my HD, it is in a G6 333 mhz machine and is partitioned for 2 drives C & E. When anything is written on C I have no problelm but when trying to write files to E it says that it cannot write to E! I have formatted the E Drive, I have wiped the free space and have defragmented...

If it was such a good move for Gateway to acquire eMachines, how come my Gateway stock continues to sink further into the cellar? Scott

I took the 90 watt power supply out of my gateway G6 366c to use on another motherboard (powercolor gameboard kx 133 PVk7) which was not working with its own power supply . The fan on the 90w ps stopped working. I put the power supply back in the gateway and booted to BIOS. But because (I guess)...