My grandson has a Gateway M-1000 with Win 98SE installed and it had been working fine until today and when you boot the machine, the Safe Mode menu keeps coming up and we can't get the machine to boot up to Windows except into Safe Mode. I checked in msconfig and it shows it is to be booting...

Hi, We have an old Denstination (P5-166) and we want to replace the computer. The monitor is still OK, despite being ~8yrs old. I'm assuming the most important part of the new computer will be the video card. Does anyone know if either the nVidia GeForce FX 5200 or ATI Radeon 9800 All-in-Wonder...

Scenario...... PC is powered 'ON'...... Keyboard lights flash once.... Monitor is ON......'raster is fine.... Nothing else looks like kicking in. AMI bios gives 1 long & 8 short beeps. (This suggests a video card problem). I change video card for known good one....'same pattern of beeps. I think...

I have a 2 year old Gateway 700XL (2.2 GHz Pent 4., 1024 Mb RAM, 120 GB HD, XP Home, ATI Radeon VideoCard with FPD1810 LCD Monitor), which has run virtually flawlessly. The only glitch has been a rare monitor black-out lasting a few seconds (without any reboot or other issues), occurring...

My mother's G6-266 desktop with Win98 First Edition has been running smoothly with a Western Digital 80GB HD for over a year. When I went over there yesterday, the mouse pointer was gone and the system was frozen. There was a faint but continuous beeping sound. I shut it off, and when I tried to...

I have a gateway p5-133 mhz , with 32 meg of ram and with windows 95b. I think there are available pci slots so can I buy any pci 10/100 card? so will this slower machine be able to handle optonline? Thanks in advance

Man, I ordered a 450xl laptop and have been waiting over a month for it. I checked the status on the gateway site and it still says "waiting for parts". I have never ordered from gateway before, is this typical? Is this a laptop that I should wait for? I'm thinking about canceling my order, for...

One of the main elements of XP SP2 will be improvements with the Firewall... What will happen if a program like Norton Firewall is already installed on your computer...will the installation of SP 2 muck up Nortons Firewall program ? Glenn M A GREAT DAY FOR FREEDOM...Pink Floyd

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I need to move some program and data from my old system to the new, I don't want to do disk thing so what would be the most cost effective way for me to transfer this data. I also want to setup a home network for two desktops located at opposite ends of the house, would prefer not to run any wire...

Just received my replacement 160 GB Maxtor hard drive, but I would like to know if it is the correct one, this replacement is supposed to have a 8mb performance enhancing cache, however I can find were it says that this drive has that or not, I talk to gateway esupport they said it should be listed...

I got a new WD 120gb hard drive for my performance 450. I have set up five partitions on it. I am currently running win2k pro. I would like to be able to install Mandrake Linux 9.2 on another partition, and Win98 on yet another partition. Is this possible to do after I have already partitioned?...

A post for all my Gateway friends... I have been trying to fix this for weeks Ramesh wrote: Try Winsock XP Fix: http://members.shaw.ca/techcd/WinsockXPFix.exe **FIX** Red'X' pic & Blank frames in IE webpage browser

hello, i am considering this line of laptops and was wondering if anyone here has one. i'd like to know how you like it and whether or not it over heats. i tend to have my current laptop on for 12-18 hours straight. i don't know if having a 17 inch lcd panel makes the laptop any hotter. thank...

hello, i am thinking about buying a gateway laptop. i'm not sure that i understand the tech support policy. it seems that the length of time in years that you can call tech support for help depends on the support policy that you purchase. for example, if you buy a 3 year in-home support policy,...

Used (gifted) GP7-667. Owner erased its files and "damaged" the OS. Installing (re) Windows 98 - working. However, the resolution came up as 640 x 480. Can't change. higher settings are "grayed out" OK : Properties... Setting...Advances... Monitor... Monitor is VX900 (properly recognized )

I'm not to familiar with the intricacies of sound management on a laptop ... or a PC for that matter. I wonder if anyone can help me with this problem? My wife would like to play a CD (with earphones) on her (Gateway 9000/Windows XP) laptop while playing an online game. Trouble is the online game...

Called gateway today about the #1 package in their 510XL line, ask about the 160 GB hard drive, wanted to know if I could exchange the one I received in my system which was the 120 GB and now their website show that the system I purchase lest than two weeks ago now comes standard with the 160 GB...

So, I have changed my screen resolution a couple of times, and no longer recall the default/optimal resolution. Is there somewhere I can find this info, or does anyone know the value? 600X laptop, 15.7 inch monitor, About 1.5 years old. TIA Steve

I have a Gateway P3 450mhz. If I install a Powerleap PL-iP3/T, how much of a difference in real word applications will I see? I have 384mb of ram. 16mb Voodoo card. I don't do any gaming, but I do use Office, browsing, etc.....I run Win2000pro. Thanks