Had a bad experience I thought I'd pass on. Prior to power going off in wind storm there was tremendous bang and half the stuff in the house went off. Turned out surge burned out 8 surge protectors. No damage to computers but we lost small TV. Looking over protector warranties, Belkin warrants...

Anybody know where I could get one of those optional Modular Bay hard drives that fits this laptop? -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Centrino Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

"Alpha Serial Numbers" An example of Gateway incompetence and indifference. I received my Gateway Profile more than a month ago. It had a 10 digit serial number preceded by an "s". I discovered very quickly that, with or without the "s", Gateway's tech support web site didn't recognize it...

We have three Gateway computers, two bought in 2005, another one in 2007. All three of these machines have SATA capabilities on the motherboards and the hard drives are SATA but the DVD drives are IDE. None of the power supplies had more than the two SATA plugs. Things were starting to fail...

Try cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc - if that doesn't work, it sounds like the drive is beginning to fail - they're not expensive to replace, fortunately. "Levance" wrote in message ... I have a PIII667 running windows 2000...

Anyone used this?: http://www.clickfree.com/index.php/product_grouping_matrix/matrix_view/id/C6D I have Carbonite til end of year but they raised price and now have program that costs twice as much to do complete backup so I thought I might switch to something like this. Would be interested in...

Hi, Maybe I should have listed this as a FS, but it remains to be seen.... I'm parting out the above type unit.... If there is anything you can use, make me a reasonable offer, pay the shipping and you can have it. The whole unit is almost $20 just to ship....... So, parting out - make life...

Lately I get a blue screen with a exception OE that occurs in 0028:C14A5743 in VxD--- caused by VxD voltrack (4) + 0000. The only thing I have installed in the past 6 months is the newest version of Netscape 7.1 on June 30th. I also get a following error in VxD CDVSD(01). Does anyone have any idea...

Hello everybody. I am new to these and need some help fixing my Gateway laptop. I got this laptop for school about three years ago and have had multiple problems with my battery before, but they were all easily fixable. Not this time, apparently. My battery started losing its' charge and when i...

Today my local computer shop has a Computer with Win7 for $270... And Linux is free to download... http://www.frys.com/product/6054368?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG Yes it has a lightweight single core CPU, running 3GB of memory with a DVD burner and a 320GB hard drive... Not the greatest...

Solo 2100 Won't charge. I bought a used Solo 2100 with a dead battery. Replaced the cells. Battery now seems to be working, but won't charge in the laptop. If I charge it externally, the %charge battery gauge goes up. Gauge goes down as it discharges in the laptop. Laptop works just fine, lasts...

Hello all, I own an Gateway GT5408 Desktop Computer, however i cant locate the correct mb drivers for it and Gateway driver site isnt much help. Also, i need to upgrade the bios, again the gateway website is or seems to be wrong so i need help to locate an utility of something so that i can do...

Thanks to all that wrote on my Solo 9500 "no boot" problem and my failed attempt to fix it by swapping out the CMOS battery. A tech told me I should change MB, for $300. I took note of your many comments to get a new Laptop. Here's what I did. I bought a reconditioned MB for $49 and paid a tech...

Hi I recently purchased a Gateway FX4710-UB003A and have read some problems with it over-heating. I found out that there is only 1 fan cooling it and its a GPU fan. I read that there is no case fan installed and I can't figure out what size case fan it needs. This might seem like a silly question...

I just stumbled upon an alternate support site for Gateway system information. Most of it echos the Gateway site documentation but there is additional info you can get about your system. When I went to my motherboard page for my FX530S system, there were links for a cool web menu simulation of the...

My E-3200 desktop with Win98 has had a problem booting up twice recently. After recognizing the CD ROM, it starts displaying lines and lines of drivers, plus MSD, MSD, MSD, MSD, etc. After shutting it down a few times, it reboots normally. Is this a registry issue? Other than doing a "scanreg...

My new GW 400 SP Plus notebook won't play a sound during Windows startup and shutdown. The sound functions are all enabled, and both sounds do work when trying them in Control Panel. This system came with SP1 already installed. I had a similar quirk with my 700X desktop. Installing SP1 solved...

I was recently handed an older Gateway Solo 2500. By all appearances looks like it's in good shape. From what I gathered it's a PII 233mhz model with a 12.1 Tft. The problem is, it won't boot. Nothing shows on the screen when powered up. It stays 'black'. The person that gave it to me said...

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I have been using Norton SpeedDisk v6.03.36a to defragment my HD for some time now and have been mostly satisfied with it. Taking the suggestion to give Executive Software Diskeeper v9.0.515 a try for fragmenting my HD, I installed it for a test run. I found out that both Norton SpeedDisk and...