One of the PC's I own is a 1999 Gateway desktop G6-450. It has a Pentium II processor at 450Mhz, upgraded to Windows ME. About 5 weeks ago, we gave this system, along with a 16' inch eMachines CRT monitor, to a relative. Shortly thereafter, she called and said that when she turned on the...

Hello All I have a Gateway 7320GZ laptop with a 15.4 inch widescreen LCD. The problem is every time I open photographs, they are terribly distorted so that the width is way too much. The screen is set to 1024 *768. It doesn't matter which software I open photos in ... Irfanview,MS Photoeditor,...

Anyone know a place to d/l the original restore disks or software? I have a Solo 9550 and got Windows back on but need the software to play DVDs. Thanks..

I have an older gateway computer, and I want to set it up to record the phone numbers that call a particular phone number, then e-mail that list of phone numbers to an e-mail address. My mother has moved in with me, and she has had her phone number since 1951 and has many friend that still call...

McAfee seems to have bombed OE with their latest update. The error message says that the disk might be full or I might be out of memory. Neither is the case. Apparently MSOE.DLL is the problem. The error code is 0X800700C1. Anybody have a clue to the way to solve this?

I had to do a full reinstall of my system. Now I can't change my Home Page. I tried everything: 1. Ran virus/trojan/spyware checks (it doesn't appear to be the product of a trojan as it remains on gateway.com) 2. Disabled/removed all anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall programs as well as...

This is a follow-up to a previous post about adding a 300GB or so internal HD to my 2002 700XL (Win XP Home/SP2). As I've researched drives, I've become more aware of the SATA option, promising greater speed. I see that there are $20 or so PCI cards that would enable me to connect an internal...

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 ...

I 'm looking for the latest Bios for Gateway RC440 bx MicorATX motherboard. I know it is made by intel, and i tried to flash it using the intel bios to support PII 400 CPU, but it didn't work. Anyone know the Gateway model for it in gateway download section?

Trying to see if anyone has any info on this newsgroup. Please help me!

The last Gateway PC I bought was my "Performance 1400" (P4 1.4) back in 2001. I've been very happy with it and every Gateway before it. Well, I'd like to retire this machine to my non-gaming machine as even with many upgrades the games have finally passed it. The question I have now is: Are...

The last three computers I have assembled, or put back together have all shown up with WGA errors. Since it is almost impossible to secure recover disks with all the advertising, I have been using several Windows CDs to install the product listed on the COA with legitimate codes. Now...

I know my name has PC-Tech and i shouldn't be posting these kinds of problems. But i am. Here is the error. What could cause this? Its a Gateway computer so i used the Gateway fourm. The instruction at "0x1009397e" reterenred memory at "0x01as1f88". The memory could not be "read"

I just got this MX6445 laptop, and see that about 6GB is taken by the recovery partition, protected by something called PC Angel. I understand that I could use that to revert to my original factory setup, but a) I don't think I'd want that setup and b) I've got Norton Ghost to image my current...

I have a circa-2002 GW 700XL, with an almost full 120gb NTFS primary hard drive (primarily digital photographs and related files). I will need to replace it in the near future, and want to know if there are any motherboard or BIOS limitations in the size of the hard drive I can install. Here...

Hi, I installed a second SATA 160 gig hard drive to my win XP system (not raid). My problem is, if I switch on the computer it boots fine and the second hard drive shows up in My computer after formatting. But if I try to restart it never gets past the XP splash screen (with the progress bar)....

i got an old gateway 2000 with stock mobo. it had an old pentium 133 in it, and im getting a 233mmx. can it support this chip? im worried that it might fry it.

Hi Folks, I just bought this tablet pc and it seems that it automatically disables the internal microphone. I want to always use the internal mic and I do not know how I can change the default mic to internal. Anyone can help me? Thanks a lot. Best Ali

I have a Gateway 7200S running the preinstalled BugFix application. Tonight it's telling me: WARNING: Conflict with Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) and will be delivering the new Internet browser as a high priority update to all Windows XP...

I thought I'd run an Intel/Gateway hardware experience by everyone and see if I can get some instructive feedback. Bought the above system about four years ago. After three years the CPU burned out. I had a repair shop replace it for $300. Eleven (11) months later the CPU burned out again. ...