X-No-Archive: Yes I just installed a new hard drive in my PC and it's working just fine. It's a Western Digital 80GByte and I used the Data LifeGuard utilty (Win XP) to partition it....'looks okay....'but.... 'Every time I reboot, Win XP keeps telling me it's "new hardware found" and asks for a...

I've been in Best Buy and they were selling Gateway machine using the new Intel 915 chipset on a BTX style motherboard. I was wondering if anyone knew why they weren't selling anything like that on their web site. I guess maybe I missed something somewhere?

Windows Update SP2--------- What a problem!!!!! First attempt really screwed up my computer. I eventurllay had to reformat it and lost alot of valuable information. Second attempt after reformatting: It installed correctly. However, our computer is set up for three persons, on the opening...

I have a Gateway Performance 1700 that just ended it's 3 year warrenty in June. The power supply is part number 6500652. It's been replaced 3 times by Gateway throughout the warrenty. The last time was in January of 2003. The fan has started making loud noises which is the same problem the...

I know it's been asked before, I have two gateway systems, one P-III 800 with Win 98SE and a P-III 933 with XP Home Edition. Question, what is the largest IDE hard drive I can put on these machines without having to have more than one partition on either? I want to remove and preserve the 30gig and...

We have a select 1300 with 32 MB Nvidia TNT2 card that just died (the card that is). I seem to recall some bantering on this newsgroup about this being a common problem amongst these cards during a certain run? How far into the nvidia line does this effect (gforce1, 2 etc)? Just curious as I...

Hi I am working on a friends gateway select machine. It will not reboot from the start shutdown menu, I will get the windows is shutting down screen then it will go blank and lock up, I must shut it down with the power switch, even then it will sometimes not start up until I power it up and shut it...

The reps have improved somewhat. The product line is still strictly consumo, and the tech training isn't superb, and Ted's still beating off in California rather than at work in Iowa. But hey, progress is better than regress. I think. 16:17 New party ('Ralph Greenson') has joined the...

On my Win XP machine, Outlook 2002 has an option under Control Panel / Mail to add another user profile. My Win98 system has Outlook 2000 and does not have this feature. I'd like to uninstall Outlook 2000 on the Win98 machine and install Outlook 2002...so I can have two profiles--making it easier...

I am wanting to hook my laptop up to my mixer and poweramp to play through 700w speakers. I am afraid my soundcard may not cut it. Does anyone know anything about PCMCIA Cards? I don't know what to look for in one. I want to use this for mobile DJing.

Have this older system and use it alot. It is starting to show it's age. I have RAM maxed at 512MB (PC133) Does anyone know what the fastest CPU this will take. It's based on the Intel 815 Chipset and currently has a P3 933MHz I have seen P3's as high as this: Intel Pentium III 1.4Ghz

I have installed Microsoft XP SP2 update and the internet is now super slow. What can I do?

I am using Win XP Pro SP-2. Just for the heck of it, I put a somewhat older hard drive in my computer attached to a Maxtor 133AT (Promise controller) just to store some extraneous files. I ran a chkdsk on the drive after starting my computer cause it didn't show up in Win properties. The...

Hopefully someone can help me: Is a Gateway 200 P5 compatible with MMX? I believe it is a socket 7 Pentium Classic 133MHz processor. Any help would be appreciated! ---

I am having a problem trying to write to various DVD disks and wonder if it is common or if there is some "fix". Listed below are the specifics: Memorex DVD-RW disks are not recognized by Nero's InCD software - I cannot format the disks nor can I copy disk to disk from another DVD ( I was able to...

The list of programs that will work “differently” after the service pack 2 has expanded to 200 applications on the eve of the consumer roll out of the update. (Microsoft's update troubles deepen further) http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=457 Believe it or not... The List includes a lot...

A mediocre book which panders to Microsoft (2 Stars) As a PC Assembly book, this is modestly useful, but there are a lot of PC assembly books out there. (Incidentally, I have not found a current title as concise and well written as "PC Hardware Configuration Guide : For DOS and Solaris" by Ron...

I upgraded a Dell 9100 Inspiron running XP Pro, a Gateway 710XL running Xp Pro, and an older Gateway GP6-450 which I upgraded to HP Home from 98SE all to XP SP2 this weekend. All went 100% flawlessly. Interestingly, I run Norton Internet Security and after the install, a Symantec window popped up...

Hi, I am the CEO of a german company called Sys-Manage offering a 3rd party BufferOverflow protection software similiar to DEP introduced with XP/SP2 (btw this means something like idiot in german). So I know what I am talking about. Please have a look at: http://pax.grsecurity.net/ I know...

Our friend has a M505 with integrated wireless LAN. The built in wireless LAN seemed to be buggy at first, then worked for many months, now seems to have failed. I have no problem putting in an external card and connecting to the network and internet, but the built in WLAN can't even see the...