I bought an Audigy 2 card from eBay, and it turned out to be a Gateway OEM version, and the Audigy 2 installation CD I got from Creative won't recognize it. Creative told me to get one from Gateway, but Gateway refuses because I didn't buy a whole system from them. The Gateway website has only a...

Well this profile is getting closer to the front of the Bench... I just looked, I do not find a motherboard listed for this unit. I would have thought there might be a Motherboard drivers for this unit, USB, especially since it has notebook-style PC Card slot for Type I and Type III cards. ...

I have a Gateway G6-200 tower with Intel VS440FX motherboard and the Pentium II Overdrive chip (replacing the original Pentium Pro). I would like to run Windows XP Pro (now running Win98SE) and upgrade to a Pentium IV. I want to keep the existing G6-200 tower case and disks, but replace the...

Unfortunately, the MPC support site is now out of operation leaving thousands of owners with no place to go for drivers, manuals, etc. There is one place that has mirrored the entire mpc support site on their own server but they do not have a website up and running at this time. Considering the...

OK, I'm turning to the experts here- if a notebook HDD has write caching enabled, and the power option is to turn the drive off after 10 minutes of inactivity, does it flush the cache before shutting down, or does it just shut down? I never really thought about it before, but the Intel update...

I've got a couple GW 9300's 650 MHz running XP Pro.., only thing is I really can't run any of the latest shoot'em up games because the video cards can't cut it!! So.., what's the next step up with GW that still has the outward appearance of the 9300s'??! Any way to crank up the 93's.., or just...

I had to reinstall winXP home and using the gateway system disk. After winxp finishes, a green and black screen showsup with a list of gateway utilities(?) and all of them are installed. Two of them "gateway desktop manager" and "gateway power config" got installed but are giving me...

You know, it's fashionable to badmoth Gateway in general these days, especially Support. As a desperation parting shot I emailed Gateway Support and told them that I didn't have a utlity to manage the ATI adapter on my Solo 9500 and that I wanted to use an external LCD monitor and turn the...

I am trying to find a BIOS update (or if none, the original version) to reflash a corrupted system. The Gateway Web site does not list this model. (Oddly it jumps right over it.) I found an Intel download for the D850GB motherboard but it won't work. If anyone knows where I might find it, I'd...

I remember a while back in this forum, that some of us were talking about the BIOS updates not working on our 6100E desktops. Well, Gateway finally got it procedures somewhat correct with the latest P13 Bios update PROCEDURES! The procedures for installation of the P10 or P13 Bios has no...

I need the restore disk's for a gateway m675 laptop that I can purchase

I'd think about the warranty upgrade - if you have to service it out of warranty, you'll be looking at $299 + for the service and repair. It would be a good piece of insurance. Jeff S. "S3Trio" *spam wrote in message ...

Did you know that Gateway Business Sales has a different Sales Tax Map than does Consumer? The same machine shipped to the same zip code may be taxed or not taxed depending on whether the business sales or consumer sales department is the one quoting? I'm not sure why. It is nevertheless true. It...

Has anyone been sucessfull in finding 2000pro drivers for this laptop? Gateway will not support it, and I've played hit and miss on drivers for everything but the sound card. Anyone have suggestions? TIA, Dave

Hi, I have an 820GM system. Just recently, I started using a USB keyboard with it. At first I didn't notice a boot time message about the system not finding a keyboard, because it works great inside Windows Vista. The issue became obvious when I had to go into the BIOS 2 days ago. I kept...

I am replaceing my nieces Hitachi Travlstar 100gb Ata/ide 54oo rpm. What would be a good replacement drive ?. System is a Gatweway MX6440. I am not sure about the ATA/IDE part , since i use a desktop with EIDE HD's. Thanks Larry

I have a 4 year old Winbook XL3 laptop that I need to replace, and am researching options. My needs a A. high quality display for working with digital images (my primary passion - see link to my site below) B. minimizing size and weight without too much harm to A C. longer battery life...

This is just an informational post for anyone who may be having the same problem I did. I have a Gateway M-6850FX notebook with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 and Windows Vista Home Premium, and it seemed that I was always running high GPU temperatures. According to HWMonitor, I was running in...

I've just acquired an old(ish) Gateway PC and I'm trying to find out the part no. of the motherboard, so I can identify drivers for onboard devices and any BIOS upgrades. Data I can see on the m/b is: Label on edge, bottom-right: IUEA03914660 AA A19243-207 Label more central: 4000684 Etched on PCB...

How do I get a replacement OEM Windows XP Professional SP1 from Gateway? The system disk on my Gateway 700S died and I need to install Windows XP Professional onto a blank hard drive. The system came with an OEM Windows XP Professional SP1 CD that came and was never used. The system is still...