I've been reading customer reviews of the Gateway 400S, 400SP and 400SP Plus at cnet.com. These are all notebooks. Most of the reviews have been favorable, but one reoccurring complaint has been excessive fan noise. Anyone else have this trouble?

gateway 600 running xp home. when i close internet explorer ver 6 i get the following: The instructions at" 0x010567ec" referenced memory at "0x010d1f30" the memory could not be read. click ok to terminate the program. can anyone identify what is wrong.

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.

Can someone tell me how to enable thumbnail view when you open a folder and move the cursor over the picture? It use to work I don't know what happened to it thanks. I'm running win98SE on a G6-350 Ray

Return it for service? Sure sounds like a hosed LCD... "Dan Husk" wrote in message news:aqRTa.136651$H17.47492@sccrnsc02... I have an erractic problem with the LCD screen. It wants to go wacky at times (lines, blurs, totally gone, etc). I can get it back by...

Hi, I have a G6-400 with a Toshiba dvd drive. The drive started making a grinding noise when opening tray. Now it really churns at boot up and when I try to open the tray. I'm thinking it is toast, but on the slight chance that one of the knowledgeable people in this group would have...

I am running a 4 month old 500xl with a network adapter (Intel Pro/100 VE). I have been having problems with decreased DSL performance as well as some system instability (the latter is now resolved after a system restore). On a speed test, my DSL download speeds are in the 256k range, where...

I briefly owned a Gateway 300S desktop computer last November. I returned it for a variety of reasons, but one thing I liked were the simple and clear Gateway instructions on how to reformat the hard drive. I did it twice without any help. The current computer I'm using, the old G6-450 came with...

Do the 400 series of Gateway laptops support 32-bit colors? Specifically the 400S. Gateway's website lists the display as 18-bit, 262,000 colors.

I am running a 500xl w/512mb RAM. Over the past 2 days, I have been having problems which have now progressed to not being able to load the desktop. Initially, I was able to load the desktop, but it was taking longer to load. Next, my DSL was not working properly (slow and then intermittent...

Hello. To those of you who have a laptop, I'm curious to learn what about them you dislike? There must be something besides the high price. What features (if any) do you find inferior to a desktop?

Anyone here own the Gateway Profile 4X? It looks attractive on paper, but the harsh customer reviews it got at cnet.com worry me: http://reviews.cnet.com/Gateway_Profile_4_X__Pentium_4__2_533_GHz_/4852-3119_7-20332176.html?tag=box

I have a 700XL and am having a problem writing to Drive F, the CD/RW drive. Will post again later regarding that. I want to copy a CD in drive E to a CD-R disk in Drive E, the DVD-R/CD-RW drive. When I get into Roxio Disk Copier, it never lets me do it. Under Advanced, the box that says Copy...

Ha sanyone tried out the newest Microsoft Windows Update Security Update? When I click on "Read more", it doesn't tell if it's a Critical update and who should install it. 821557: Security Update (Windows XP) Download size: 5.1 MB, 1 minute "An identified security issue in Microsoft Windows could...

Sorry about the offsubject entry but I just replaced my scanner on my G6-400 with a new Microtek Scanmaker 4800 which is advertised as "Twain Compatible" (as was the old one). The software that came with the new scanner works fine however, none of the old does. All the applications give messages...

My PC has just started locking up on system boot, and I can't figure out why. When it boots, I hit tab to display boot messages, and it detects my keyboard and CD-ROM drive, then just sits there. I can't even get into the BIOS setup. I replaced the on-board battery about a year ago, so I don't...

Just wondering if anyone is having trouble downloading updates from the MS Update site for XP machines or is it just us. We have 98SE machines, 2000 machines and this XP laptop. We can still download updates with the 98SE machines and the 2000 machines but not the XP machine. The XP machine will...

I just had to do a rebuild of system, because of faulty hard drive.(still under 3 year warranty thankfully) Question I have, is that I forgot how to turn off those grey messages that say they are from messenger service. Those spam messages that pop up all the time when you are on the web. I...

Is anybody here familiar with Road Runner's wireless package? I am curious to know the hardware/software requirements. I would assume a brand new computer would easily meet any requirements, but I'd like to get an idea how this works. What plugs into what. I've called RR about this, and gotten...

My 5 year-old Solo 5100 laptop is beginning to show its age, so I'm casually looking at new laptops. Gateway's 400 line seems attractive for what I want, but I'm concerned that in the 400SP model, which has the 14.1" screen I want (not 15"), there is no option for CD-RW. You get a DVD-ROM,...