When I turn my Gateway on from sleep mode after an all-night rest it usually takes about 20 minutes before it fully powers up. While there is noise in the tower everything is very sluggish. I have fired up both Ad-Aware and Norton Anti-Virus scan (which takes about 2 hours) but this does not seem...

This is an old machine by now but mine is still running fine. I have barely used it the last 2 years because it is loud. If you own this pc, please post if you have any experiences in the followings: 1. 120 mm exhaust fan is loud. Easy to fix. 2. First CPU fan can be turned off and I plan to put

I have a desktop and a notebook -both running Windows XP. They talk to each other through a router and a wireless access point. Copying big files - 5 Gig - over wireless will take a long time. Is there a faster way to do it? Can I connect them together using some kind of cable? They both have USB...

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I'm in a market for a new Monitor. I am considering 3 LCD makes, and I am willing to spend approx $500. The brands I am interested are 1. Sony, 2. NEC, 3. Viewsonic. Should I consider other brands, and would like to hear your experience, pro and contra, with these makes.

I want to change the drive on a 700X by adding another drive and transferring the data files etc. to the new drive. If I recall, when you remove the old drive you can't boot to the new drive because it does not have the boot sector on it, right? If so, how do you get the pc to boot to the new...

My "help and support" function does not work at all. When I try to get it started all that happens is a quick flash of an arrow and the hour glass. This has bee going on for several months and I cannot relate it to any particular event or installation. Tech support had no ideas. This is not a...

Need Gateway Solo 2500 restoration CD. Here (I'am from Poland) is it big problem :(.

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Hello All (sorry if this appears twice. I cancelled the first version of this message) Just thought I mention this in case one encounters this problem. I just spent more than five hours working with three different Linksys techs on setting up a Linksys wireless router with a friend's new Gateway...

Hello All Just thought I mention this in case one encounters it. I just spent more than five hours working with three different Linksys techs on setting up a Linksys wireless router with a friend's new Gateway 7320GZ laptop. Turns out the problem was that Gateway had activated two different...

I'm thinking of putting an Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 32MB AGP Video Card in my Gateway E-3200 (550Mhz) with 384mb RAM, because the onboard ATI Rage card doesn't always engage when the system is started. (I dont' get a bootup screen, and I have to shut down and restart-- so I assume it's the video card). ...

I have a solo 9300 pro notebook with a bad display. Other than using a tape measure how can I tell what size of a display it has? I am guessing it is either a 15 or 15.7 but I am not sure. Thanks Kim

In May 1999 I purchased a Gateway Performance 500 PC with VX900T Monitor. Lately, once every second day, or so, the Monitor developes a spark, and it looses picture for a second, or two. After that, it resumes performing without a problem. At one point the address display, in the left corner of the...

Howdy, Thank you for your time with this issue. Do you know what causes most of the display issues on the Solo 1450? I have seen a lot of these come in with this problem. My laptop's screen starts out pink on startup and then goes blank and stops the boot process. I have been able to get it to work...

Hi all anyonye out there who can help me out trying to put winxp on but need to update the bios and can not find my chasis number listed its 3500724 anyone know whick bios version i should be using

In IE6, is there a quick way to clear all the history entries that show in the panel on the left side when I click on the History button on top? Deleting entries one at a time is awfully slow. Thanks! Scott

Help, Ran into a problem trying to update the intel bios # PT84510a.15a.0005.po3.0203061931 on a gateway 500s. The bios upgrade only works in windows. Can't update from dos. Looking for this old bios so i can try to update again. System performed a update from windows but did not ask if i wanted...

Hi, Recently inherited a Gateway G6-400 minitower (circa 1998). The computer does not play sound. I have tried installing speakers without success. Looking at hardware profile I can see PC MultiMedia Audio Device listed which I assume is sound card but it says that drivers are not installed (code...

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