I have a 700XL running Windows XP Home with Norton Anti-Virus 2003. I installed Drive Image 7.0 to use to back up the OS and data on my C: drive to my D: drive It says to disable BIOS virus protection before making a backup. I looked at the system settings by hitting F1 during a boot, but don't...

Trying to get Blaster off a friends computer, everytime it boots up chkdisk wants to run, if I allow it to run it doesn't find anything. I ran the Blaster removal tool which works and then if I go to MS to down load the security path it says I need to install MS03-26 first? Next time we boot the...

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...

Well . . . we blew through the 5/8 date. Now the systems are saying 5/17. Is there any secret phone number/ website that has real delivery info/ manufaturing status? The sales people just seem to access the same info as the order status website. Is there a group in Gateway that can truly check...

Lately I get a blue screen with a exception OE that occurs in 0028:C14A5743 in VxD--- caused by VxD voltrack (4) + 0000. The only thing I have installed in the past 6 months is the newest version of Netscape 7.1 on June 30th. I also get a following error in VxD CDVSD(01). Does anyone have any idea...

An old companion becomes less necessary, October 17, 2004 I have purchased three of the last five revisions of this book, and bought the latest as a matter of course when it first became available. It's the first one where I have wished that I had looked at it physically before purchase, because...

We have two computers, a five-month old Dell and a five-year old Gateway G6-450. I would like to know how I can boost the performance of the Gateway machine so it will function faster on the Internet. It has a PII processor at 450Mhz, with 384MB of RAM. The G6-450 came preinstalled with 98FE,...

I need help badly. Using Win XP Pro-SP2. Nothing special or "abnormal" about my configuration. Just recently after I install a new program or hardware device and when I turn my computer on in the morning I get the to the Windows XP Pro screen and instead of going to my desktop my computer...

I have used Norton Ghost for several years to clone a 2nd HD for backup purposes. Out of the blue I have started receiving this message when Ghost shuts down windows and attempts to run in DOS. Once it happens I have to cut the power to restart the system and it refuses to start again (continues...

Hi I'd appreciate any advice with this one. I got a warning on boot up saying SMART drive detected a failing hard drive. That fits because I've had a blue screen and a couple of unusual crashes. I've got another hard drive, which I've installed and formatted to NTFS, same as the failing one. ...

Computer is a 700xl 2.4gig p4 1gig of RDram. I added a second WD 120gig HD and now the system will fail to boot from a cold start. It appears that BIOS will not properly config drive (0) the orginal drive. When I first installed the second drive, drive (1), bios found it and properly auto...

Win98SE on laptop: Since the boot up usually takes a couple of minutes, I usually turn on the computer and do something else while it boots. Came back into the room to a blue screen with: "File allocation table bad, drive %1" C C:\ After the initial tendency to lose my breakfast, I just...

Greetings, What is the boot order for a Solo 5300 CL when it is in the as shipped condition. In other words, in the F2 Settings configuration in the boot order what should the boot order read. Should it be CD ROM, then Hard Drive, then removable devices? I am curious and would like to know.

I have a machine that had 2 hd's installed, each with their own operating system, both WinXP. I removed one drive, the primary ide and I jumpered the other drive just like the primary one and I get the following error message: "Boot Agent, Media Test Failure, check cable, exiting boot agent,...

I offered to get a friend's Gateway 300se computer running right again. It's a Gateway 300se with 256M ram. I removed packages such as Norton and McAfee which were sucking up CPU cycles. I also removed a lot of jpegs which were consuming much of his disk space. My mistake came when I thought,...

My brother has a Gateway Performance 933 computer,and when he goes to start it up the Bios page loads,then it goes to the rollback screen and stays there nothing else happens and all he can do is hit the space bar which does nothing. I have no idea on what to do,any help will...

I have a 500xl 2.66ghz P4, 512mg RAM. My Maxtor 160gb hdd just died (I got my computer 17 months ago). I replaced it with a spare Maxtor 40gb hdd, after trying to recover the data on the dead drive (I installed XP on the spare drive, and made the other drive the slave, but the files were not there,...

I have a 500xl 2.66ghz P4, 512mg RAM. My Maxtor 160gb hdd just died (I got my computer 17 months ago). I replaced it with a spare Maxtor 40gb hdd, after trying to recover the data on the dead drive (I installed XP on the spare drive, and made the other drive the slave, but the files were not there,...

Just recently at boot up I've gotten a screen asking me to press A to boot from the floppy, C to boot from the disk (i.e., hard drive). If I press C it goes on to load Windows as normal. I've never gotten this before. I have an old P5-120 (Aladdin MB) upgraded to an AMD K6 400 and MR bios.

Is it possible to load XP on one of those thumb things with memory that fits into the USB 2 port and boot the system with it?