Hello Gateway group. I have three quick questions about laptops and batteries. 1) When you plug-in and unplug the AC adapter for laptops, do you need to turn the computer off first? I thought there might be some safety issues here. 2) It is my understanding that when the AC adapter is...

Want to buy the follwing processors Xeon 700 Mhz 1 Mb cache 5/12 V sl4xv / sl49q ( 174448-b21 ) any brand Xeon 700 Mhz 2 Mb cache 5/12 V sl49s / sl4xx ( 174449-b21 ) any brand Xeon 900 Mhz 2 Mb cache 5/12 V sl4xz ( 222627-b21 ) any brand Xeon Dp 2.0 Ghz 400 FBS sl6em ( or any other step ) Xeon Dp...

Here is my dilemma... troubleshooting an old Gateway FLEXATXSTC PC... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I was hoping I could find someone who is familiar with Gateway FLEXATXSTC Essentials computer? I got it from a friend and wanted to...

I have a professional series Gateway 733 PIII that has had XP re-loaded on it and it aparently has the wrong driver for the ESS 1969 PCi Audiodrive Audio board as it shows nothing in the incoming audio control or driver section. The Line In and MIC inputs have NO controls. I have seen this exact...

Help, I have a 4-year old Gateway Select 750 which is fine for my needs right now, but today I pushed the "on button" and the button slipped downward just a little and is now lodged under the front cover of the tower in the down position, although the computer did not come on. I tried to pry it...

I'm thinking of purchasing a Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB Hard Drive, 7200, 16MB, SATA-300, OEM from www.tigerdirect.com for my 6-year old Gateway 700x WinXP Pro desktop. I know I need to deteremine if my BIOS will support a drive this large. I'm also looking at getting a Masscool...

hmmmmm - not much activity here - A neighbor has a Gateway 310X desktop, and I was asked to change a few things in XP for her... While I have it here, it's been running most of the day, but it has now - 3 times - just turned itself off !! This is NOT the Windows power setting, as I also had it...

For some reason I can't find the HP newsgroup, but I know Ben reads this one. Since I upgraded my computers to Windows 7, I am having trouble with my HP Laserjet 1300. I have downloaded the latest drives and it prints OK--ONE PAGE AT A TIME. This is especially annoying if I am using the...

I spent 20 minutes using a 27 inch 2560x1440 Dell monitor, was neat to use a few 1440 game demos on youtube, and to play with gimp and manipulate a few multi layer graphics... Makes my 1920x1080 monitor like a small toy screen...

I just checked my email, and got an email from verizon, who handles my dsl connection. The letter announced they will only be handling the big 8 newsgroups. Which means this gateway newsgroup will not be available to me on verizon, as well as countless others. Any workarounds,...

I bought a new MT3422 latop about a year and 9 months ago. I leave it running 24x7 and in less than a year the fan was worn out. Gateway was good about fixng it but now it's out of warranty so I need to do it myself this time. Anybody got a link to instructions on fan replacement? I just need...

I was going to install Vista Home Basic onto my Gateway 200 ARC laptop. I replace the 40 Gb original Hitachi HD with Windows XP Pro on it with a squeaky clean Hitachi 120 Gb drive and started the installation of Vista Home Basic. I already knew the video wouldn't suppor Aero. I got an error...

If you have a Fry's electronic in your area, you might try to get one of these sale items... Limit one per customer, & no rain checks! They have them in stock at my store in Vegas... I believe AOC brands these for gateway... I have had good luck with AOC led monitors... JR the postman

once there was a very cool tool to identify AMD processors. It it required the users to input the 3 code lines from the processor label into the appropriate fields, then it calculated all possible info out of these values. It was not scanner via software from the working system it needed the...

My Gateway Performance 450 is about 4.5 years old. I assume it's easy to replace the cmos battery - just find what looks like a button battery on the motherboard, take it out, and put in the new one. My question is - is it a big chore restoring the BIOS settings, or is it likely that the defaults...

Hi all I just bought a Gateway NV5302 and I would like to know the upgrade limitations to this laptop as far as ram, CPU, video card go. I have tried to find more than just the regular retail spec and haven't had much luck. I appreciate any help. Thank you. http://tinyurl.com/yg32gmd

I have a Gateway M6850-FX laptop with this http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2008/TempestFX/4006270R/4006270Rsp2.shtml motherboard, and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a CPU upgrade. I've looked at the specs for the current CPU (Intel® CoreT2 Duo Mobile Processor T5550...

My Gateway computer came with the bay for Portable Media Drives. However, I can not find these anywhere. They should have replaced the bay with something else, **** Best Buy!!! Does anyone have any they would like to sell? Please respond. Thanks so much. Joey

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I have these problems: 1. If I do a cold start of the monitor and computer I get 5 verdical lines on my monitor. Two on the left side and three on the right side. Cold START: Disconnect the ac power plug from the monitor and completely shut down the computer and then wait20 minutes for...