Anyone have experience with reliable on-line source of low cost print cartridges? Cartridges for my old HP printer cost more than the printer today and recycled cartridges are not to be found in local stores.

Can anyone help me identify an old Gateway machine which has been donated to a charity I am associated with in the UK? On the front it just says P5-120. The serial number is not recognised on the Gateway site since it was bought outside the US. It was manufactured in mid 1996. I just want to know...

Just updated my 7200XL Southlake BIOs to revision SE91510J.15A.2618 and now my ATI Radeon X800 XT PCIe video card has stopped working. The card no longer appears in the hardware list of Windows XP Pro and all attempts to reinstall says the card is not present. I've also completely removed the...

Has anyone successfully upgraded either of the following models to XP Home SP2? The first link (photo for case ID purposes only, btw) shows a 500S desktop similar to (2) units that both crashed upon first reboot after an attempted XP2 upgrade. I ultimately suspected BIOS flash, but did not...

Hi everyone, Im' looking for a BIOS downgrade OR a hack for an intel mainboard, sold by gateway. The BIOS identification string (displayed on startup) is 4R4CB0XA.15A. I used to have bios version 4 (ID string 4R4CB0XA.15A.0014.P04.9810021408), which worked acceptable with a Pentium III/550 MHz...

Originally from the " Laptop backlight quitting intermittently" thread shockwa wrote: I was having an issue with a new LCD and inverter. The backlight still wasnt functioning. Then someone told me about the "toggle switch" that turns the backlight on or off when the lid is opened and ...

The hard drive in my 450X laptop just died and was replaced under warranty. The new drive is much noisier than the old one, lots of tickety tickety sounds. Should I worry about it or just be cool and keep things backed up (always a good idea). My extended warranty ends in December.

I think I found the problem I was having with a Gateway 2000 GP5-200 desktop computer. It would randomly freeze or drop into STOP errors. I started looking at the motherboard and found a voltage regulator attached to a beefy heatsink. Even with that, it still got too hot to touch for very long....

These people don't stand behind their product. They even refuse to sell you parts unless you send a computer to them "for repairs" so that they could charge you hundreds of dollars for their "expertise". If this is not extortion, I honestly don't know what is. I spoke with their vip, and the guy...

My parents have a Gateway PC that is about 4 years old. The fan is quite noisy and the monitor displays somewhat faint wavy gray lines that can get annoying. I tried the monitor and cable with my laptop and there were no wavy lines on the screen. So apparently the cause is on the Gateway PC...

Wondering if someone can answer a simple question for me? I just purchased a new 7200XL system with all the bells and whistles and found that the FPD1940 monitor did not have a DVI cable when it arrived. I called Gateway support and after speaking with nine (yes 9) different people I still do not...

Hi, I was trying to post a reply to a thread I have been following in the alt.html newsgroup, but I got this message instead: "Posting failed (rejected by Post filter)" That's a new one on me. Anyone know what this means?

Awhile back, I picked up a Gateway System Restoration Kit with Win98 (rev. 1.2) SE on ebay. The plan is to install it on a newly-formatted hard drive on a GW E-3200 desktop. There is no Product Key with this CD. I do have a Win98 (first edition) CD and a Win98 (first edition) Upgrade CD. Both...

I have a Gateway 950mhz computer with a 60gb hard drive. It originally came with 128mb of memory. I later upgraded by having another 128mb installed. I am going to purchase Adobe Photoshop and will need more memory. I know I can just get another 128mb installed in there for a total of 384mb....

Hi Previously I posted about losing the my screen resolution going from 1024 x 768 pixels to 640 x 480 pixels quite often. It was suggested that the CMOS battery might be bad, but am still losing it after replacing the battery, the resolution will change even when just restarting the computer. I...

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...

Good Morning and Merry Christmas. About a month ago I call Gateway Upgrades and Tech Support just to make sure what I was wanting to do would work. They both said yes with your system no problems. Well problems, I got a Maxtor 300GB Drive which came with a new controller card which worried me as...

I was wondering where I find the phone tools, to download on my computer. We reformatted and I forgot where we download it from. Is it on the system disk, or windows disk? Thanks, Carolyn Yoder -- 35,000 mile oil change. Check us out; http://www.da-carlubricants.com

Hi, I'll be getting my computer soon and I was just wondering what some of you do to check and make sure everything is alright. Checking against the Packing List is a first step but then do you have other tests you run? For example, I've seen people say they got the wrong amount of RAM, wrong CPU,...

I was given a Gateway G6-233 mini-tower as a donation for a needy student in my class, but the donor erased the HD and doesn't have the restore CDs. Does anyone know I might get a set of these or, at least, a start up disk so I've got drivers and can install another OS? Thanks.