I was just checking the Zone Alarm program list on my 700x with WinXP Pro. Is there any reason why explorer.exe should be wanting to access the internet? Thanks! Scott

In the morning, I have to press the ON button several times before the power will stay on. This has been happening for a couple of weeks. Is the Power Supply failing, or some other problem? I have a Performance 450 with a GHz up grade, and 320 mb memory. Please advise. Leroy Howell

I have a Solo 9300 that currently runs at 500 MHz. I would like to upgrade the CPU and am having troubles. I picked up a 750 MHz MMC-2 CPU on ebay. The chassis motherboard I have is capable of handling it. But when I insert the CPU, the green light comes on and the HDD begins spinning, but then...

Hi ! My question is on the object line. What is the right key(s) ? Marc

Will increasing the memory in my Laserjet 5L allow a PDF file to print correctly? LJ memory is 1 meg and I think I can increase it to 9 megs. I get about 85% of a page, and the next page contains the rest of it. I've fiddled with the reader settings until I am tired of it. IIRC, my un-used Solo...

I want to build a PC. I want to use the GW image and progress bar at startup. Possible? Probably an Intel board. Here is a GW BIOS. Where is the logo/progress image? http://www.hemplemans.com/P14%20BIOS.zip

Hi, I'm the new owner of a Gateway Performance Pentium 4 1300 machine. I have a few general questions. 1. Is the powersupply a standard atx supply? It is only a 250 watt, and I plan on putting alot of stuff in it, and might upgrade it if not too cost prohibitive. I know there is some issue with...

On 08/18/03, I purchased a brand new 42" Plasma TV with a warranty of one year parts/service/onsite. On 10/27/03 I called for service due to pixels on the plasma having expired. Gateway techs. concluded I needed a new TV. They sent me a refurbished TV (used)with expired pixels, scratches on the...

I have a GP6-400 system, circa 1999, Tabor 2 BX mobo, 256 Mb RAM. I'd like to keep this system going for as long as possible - it's very stable running Win98FE and I don't want to "upgrade" to a new machine with WinXP. I use it for surfing, word processing, some graphics apps, some old DOS apps. ...

Hey people, I can get the Netgear wireless equipment for a good deal, but want to make sure it's a good enough brand. I'd hate to end up having problems just to save a buck or two. What I want to do: Be able to have complete access to my DSL internet connection on my laptop from anywhere in my...

Hi, Just a quick question. I friend of mine has two gateways sitting side-by-side and wants to transfer all the info from the old computer to the new computer. They are both on-line. Gateway says he has to buy software from them in order to do it. They want a lot.

The chipset drivers are downloadable from either Gateway or Intel - the video drivers are downloadable from Gateway (use the serial number number to access them). "Uzi Barzilai" wrote in message news:GHyTb.212055$na.345615@attbi_s04... Used (gifted) GP7-667. Owner erased...

Ok....I got the power;eap PL-IP3/T installed in place of the P3-450. Works great so far.....I'm getting three beeps on start-up though. Is this anything to worry about? I couldn't find any thing on Powerleap's site. Thanks, Broham

We have two computers, a five-month old Dell and a five-year old Gateway G6-450. I would like to know how I can boost the performance of the Gateway machine so it will function faster on the Internet. It has a PII processor at 450Mhz, with 384MB of RAM. The G6-450 came preinstalled with 98FE,...

Purchasing a replacement PC and the only way to get non-integrated audio and video with separate DVD-ROM and DVD±R/W seems to be the 510XL at about $1800. Not really using it for gaming or movie making, but just wanted most current storage options for photo editing and general backup and two...

I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use Default" is Dellnet.com. I would like to change it so it will be my actual home page and not Dell's. Every time I enter the one I use as my home page it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to...

I have a 700XL running Windows XP Home with Norton Anti-Virus 2003. I installed Drive Image 7.0 to use to back up the OS and data on my C: drive to my D: drive It says to disable BIOS virus protection before making a backup. I looked at the system settings by hitting F1 during a boot, but don't...

I recently upgraded a clients PC from Win 98 to XP Home. The PC was a Performance 550 and had a vision tech RIVA TNT-2 AGP card for display. I added some RAM to bring the system up to 384MB and then installed XP Home. Everything went OK except for the Video Card was not recognized and instead a...

I have reformatted my hard drive on my old Gateway 400c and found drivers on the Gateway website but I cannot get the Audio drivers (7510802 zipfile)to install. It opens and starts to install then the window pops up wanting me to insert the Windows 98se disk into the drive. When I do that it says...

Friends, this is an inconsequential question, I'm sure, but here goes ... I just installed a new hd on my gateway 9300 notebook. Everything works fine as far as I can see, except the drive activity light is always on. I really appreciate seeing the that light flicker as a system...