Question for the experts I made recovery disks then purged my hard drive. Formerly it had win xp home on it. It would not boot from the vista DVD though I know the settings are set to boot from DVD I was told the bios might be oputdated, however on Gateways site there does

I hope this gets through all of the spam on this forum. I have a Gateway 700x with a Geforce2 MX400. I added an ACER X223 22" widescreen LCD on the DVI-D port and get the BSOD in WinXP-Pro SP2. If I boot in safe mode, it does come up...so that indicates a driver issue. I loaded the latest Nvidia...

Plugged new printer for wife's old GW into USB port on front of machine. Software said I would get better preformance on a different USB port. Printer works fine but would I be asking for trouble if I switched devices like her camera input USB with printer? I'd hate to have to reinstall...

Doesn't anyone out there have a Gateway MidTower Pentium Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Quad Computer?

Hello, 4 I am looking for a bios upgrade for a gateway e4600 It is a pentium 4 socket 423 machine. I have tried the bios update from gateway, but it will not install. When I try to run it I get a could not open input file and start address of image is invalid. Any help would be appreicated.

When youre shopping for a digital camera, it can be very easy to get caught up in all the really expensive models that are offered. Thats because todays really expensive digital cameras do all sorts of things. However, if youre a beginner, chances are you dont need all those bells and whistles. All...

Reposted from the Mepislovers forums: Quote: Hello Folks; Last night I did a fresh installed SimplyMepis 32-bit version of the beta6 on my Gateway (DX200S series) desktop computer. the installation went well without any glitch and as far as I tried, everything is working well out of box. End...

I just noticed my (black) Gateway media center remote is having a problem in Windows Vista Media Center. I went to use the channel up/down buttons tonight and it changes to 2 channels away instead of the next channel, as if it skips the one in between. Also the channel guide button doesn't work...

Does any out there have a GW 5478 with Win XP Pro installed. I'm having a hell of a time installing XP Pro slipstreamed version. After it reads my floppy with IaStor.sys I get the error codes as described in my previous post. Obviously I'm using the wrong drivers but am still at a loss as to...

Hi, new here so please bare with me, I have a gateway 2000 p5-75 can anyone talk me througth conecting to the web. first I need to obtain the cable from where etc, hope in you, thanks

I just wrote concerning my 21" monitor having a two year warranty. Two days after I convinced Gateway that I did indeed have a two year warranty, I received the box from them to return defective monitor. It was clearly a computer box. The boxes for the monitors are tall and narrow with...

Can anyone give me an address that can walk me through installing Windows XP Pro on my GW with 2 serial (RAID not in use) drives. I have no 3 1/2 inch drive for installing the SATA drivers but with USB enabled in BIOS (during setup) XP setup reads the info on my USB floppy drive just fine and...

I have used Norton Ghost for several years to clone a 2nd HD for backup purposes. Out of the blue I have started receiving this message when Ghost shuts down windows and attempts to run in DOS. Once it happens I have to cut the power to restart the system and it refuses to start again (continues...

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Hello I would like to upgrade my 2.1 Ghz cpu on my mfatxnin nmz 300s gateway. Does anyone know if it has a 400mhz cpu? what is the best cpu i can get for this box? thanks.

I think I found the problem I was having with a Gateway 2000 GP5-200 desktop computer. It would randomly freeze or drop into STOP errors. I started looking at the motherboard and found a voltage regulator attached to a beefy heatsink. Even with that, it still got too hot to touch for very long....

Does anybody have a spare GW 500X power supply they would like to sell?

How do I get to the system bios on a GW 500x? Thanks.

Eighteen months ago we bought two Gateway PC package deals from Costco that came with 21" flat screen monitors. One of the monitors has started taking 30 to 45 minutes to come on in the morning. After powering on, unplugging, plugging back in, etc., it will work fine, but who has 45 minutes...

A common part until you want one Yesterday, I decided to get a PC going that I'd been handed for free. It's an old Gateway server with a dual Pentium 3 motherboard, meaning it has little value, but would do for a second machine running Linux. So I went around looking for a couple of suitable...