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OK gettin kinda desperate here... Fixing this machine has been an adventure. I have gotten lost @ Gateway support for a few hours. I need to re-set the BIOS on this machine as the peripherals are locked out in the BIOS; A: drive, CDRom etc. It was being used in a showroom display. There is...

I have a Gateway 1450 Solo that for some reason has no power. I have replaced the a/c adapter and the battery but still no go. What does happen is while the a/c adapter is connected and the batter installed the amber charging light is on, but nothing happens when I put the power button. ...

Hi, I have reistalled win XP home on a reformatted hard drive and It has changed my drive letters as follows :My card reader are removable disks C,D,E and F. My dvd rom is G and My dvd rewriter is H. and My hard disk is i. I have tried to change my hard disk back to C in disk management but it...

This one is priceless. My brand new 7200XL is having network card problems. I log on to Gateway tech support and start an exchange of emails to try and resolve the problem. The exchange goes like this: Me: My Marvell Yukon card is not being recognized by Windows XP after a cold boot. If I...

i have a question i just got my gateway 7200 media center p.c. and inside media center if you go to more programs and go to cd/dvd like you were going to make a cd what dos it say my computer sead i needed to install a cd/dvd drive it could not find one I have talked to gateway thay sead it was...

Is there an easy way to block senders in Thunderbird for ALL newsgroups? I have set up a variety of message filters, but I cannot seem to get all of them filtered like you can do in OE Blocked senders list. -- The Signa's Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep...

I just received my new Gateway 7200 media center p.c. and am very pleased with it. One problem I've had is with the 2.1 speaker system, with the two round front desktop speakers and a subwoofer. The right speaker buzzes terribly with any volume above low. Does anyone else have this speaker...

I have a strange problem with my Marvell Yukon network card on my new 7200XL. If I boot my system from an off state (cold boot) Windows XP Pro does not see the card and I have no Internet, email, etc. The card does not even show up in the Device Manager. But, if I "RESTART" (warm boot) the...

Does anybody have recovery disks? Can't set bios because I don't know how. Computer dummy

update on my situation.... sometimes it's time to throw in the towel and call for a professional.. that's what I did. Thanks anyway.

I inherited this beast. All is well except sound. It has a sound "card" on the motherboard which Win98 SE sees but can't find a driver for on its CD. Can anyone help? Thanks, Tom

Hi, I recently installed a new hard drive into the above computer. Everything went fine with the install and re-load. There was then a power outage and this computer started asking for a password (looked like a BIOS password) Obviously we didn't put one in to start so couldn't get on. Someone told...

Hello, I am trying to recycle/revive a surplussed Library machine for my nephew. A GP6-433C. Machine was delivered F&F'd with no CD-ROM and no OS. I installed a CD-ROM and W98SE, however, I cannot get Gateway's Audio or Video drivers to install and the USB ports are dead, although USBReady says...

I have a Solo 1150 laptop here that won't boot past post, error beeps follow the pattern of 1-3-1-3. Can anybody decipher this? Various searches I've done suggest this MAY be the problem: Test 8742 Keyboard Controller but frankly, I don't know if it is the problem, even what that is exactly or...

Just curious as to what people think about it!

I have a Gateway Solo 1200 that keeps overheating due to the fact that the fan is broken. This causes the laptop to constantly reboot. I know the fan is dead but I don't know how to get into the laptop to replace it. When I wrote to Gateway they told me that the only way I can have it replaced...

I have a GW w/ Tabor III part number 4000504 motherboard currently running a Pent III 450 Mhz & 384 Mhz of Ram & an ATI AGP video card. I'd like to upgrade as much as possible, but can't seem to find out what the limitations of my motherboard are. Does anyone know (or know where I should look) to...

First, I am a Mac guy who hasn't touched a Windows computer since I was in a Cyber cafe in Katmandu four years ago. However, I have a po' relative that insists that i look at his inoperative Gateway. The guy is totally computer illiterate, so I didn't even try to ask him what was wrong with it. ...

I have a gateway 614GE based on the MSI MS-6741 motherboard. I have flashed the bios from the MSI website and my copy of the original gateway branded OEM BIOS is corrupted. the original version was 3.4B1. If anyone owns one of these systems I would appreciate it if you could make a copy of the...