Would appreciate any sage advice concerning a problem I'm having connecting *external* speakers to my Gateway 400SD laptop, running WinXP Home. Sound card is ESS Allegro PCI (WDM). All sound works fine through unit's built-in speakers: mp3s, system sounds, CDs, etc. all work fine. Because of...

I have a copy of office 2000 installed on my system and the original disk. I plan on getting a new system and would like to install it on the newer computer and uninstall it on the old. The problem is I can not find the CD key. Is there a way to find out what the key is before I uninstall...

Still struggling with this, trying to get Gateway monitor to work on Dell. All I get is no signal. GW was on Vista while Dell has XP Pro, if that has anything to do with it.

I am desperately in need of a motherboard layout diagram or pin assignment diagram for the Gateway 4000206 (Intel AL440LX) motherboard. If you have such a manual and can scan the layout diagram and pin assignment tables for me, it would be much appreciated. Tony

What follows is a true story of my interaction with Gateway support, based on this experience I will never buy another Gateway product. I feel if others knew what they were getting into they may feel the same way, so I am posting my experience to inform others. I purchased a Gateway MX6453 in...

Help!! I have a 2nd user Gateway MT3712b (W340UA) laptop that won't recognise the hard drive (I've tried 2). I renewed the button cell on the motherboard as someone had removed it? Now I can boot into bios, and by changing the boot sequence I can boot from usb floppy and usb cd-rom but no hard...

Hi folks, One of my websites got infected with a virus and was blocked by Google. I stumbled across this page and it really helped me getting the problem solved very quickly without having to reupload my website from my computer. I can't paste the whole method here because it's explained in...

Question, has anyone got a recovery disk for a T1090 Desktop they can sell? www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=Desktops&subcat=T-Series&model=T1090 With windows XP disappearing at the end of the month this becomes more important... JR the postman

I can't remember if it was this NG that I got this info from or not so please forgive if I am covering old ground here. I while back on some NG I saw a message where you could goto MS and sign up for a free CD that contains all the updates you see on the MS update site. So…. I ordered one. Got...

Currently, my notebook has an Intel Core2 Duo Mobile Processor T5550 running at 1.83GHz and I would like to know if I can upgrade it to an Intel Core2 Duo Mobile Processor T8300 running at 2.4GHz. Here are links to each processors' specs: T5550...

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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...

Sorry this is a long post. I hope someone will be persistent enough t help me out. I have been working on a friend's old Gateway 2000 GP6 (maybe G6? 300MHz PII MMX system. It has a problem where the video "zaps out" frequently. I say tha because the monitor literally makes a zapping sound as the...

Hi everyone This is my first post. I have a zx6800 all in one desktop, i burn 3 recovery disc UDF file, please instruct on how I do a clean install

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Hi folks, I have had this Gateway M505 laptop for abt a yr now.. Been working fine so far till y'day. The display is almost totally dark, but I can see the outlines of the icons and windows from an angle.. Nothing I have tried seems to help.. I have tried fiddling with the backlight setting,...

I have read so many negative comments about Gateway and their machines that I thought for a change I would post a positive comment just so newbies might know there are people who have been happy with their machines. In Oct 98 I purchased my Gateway G6 333 mghz with a EV700 monitor. I have used...

Reloaded W95 on an old PII Gateway and found that MS no longer provides downloads for IE 5.5. IE 6 doesn't run with Win 95. Can a Gateway Windows ME Restore CD be used to put a new OS on this old PII Gateway computer? It's too old to run XP. Flack

I have a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan YE0711-01 monitor and every time I turn on the power the monitor menu comes up. Does anyone know how to keep the monitor menu from coming up ? Thanks Dave

Windows Update SP2--------- What a problem!!!!! First attempt really screwed up my computer. I eventurllay had to reformat it and lost alot of valuable information. Second attempt after reformatting: It installed correctly. However, our computer is set up for three persons, on the opening...