Are they worth it...low cost etc...relibility? Tech Support. Thanks

I recently dropped Comcast cable and changed to BellSouth DSL but cannot change the start up page (home page)in IE vers 6 can anyone tell me how to do it. I even went into registry and changed or deleted everything I could find that said Comcast and it still reverts to it. I am lost as what to do...

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...

Hope someone can tell me what command to watch after restarting with the WinXP cd in the drive in order to wipe the C: drive clean and reinstall WinXP. I don't want to do a repair. Thanks.

Well soon I will be retiring my Gateway G6, 333 mhz computer and getting my "new" Gateway DX430X. Really am excited as this one will be "slightly faster" (grin). The old one has worked well for me! Also the old EV700 monitor I heard so much negativityabout has provided such good service and...

can not boot from cd, went to bios change it to cd, still does not work

I am about to purchase a new laptop. It will be a Vista Home Premium. The one I am looking at comes with 2GB of ram and is not expandable. Some machines being sold are expandable, usually to 4GB. When I bought my GW 500X it came with 256MB of ram and I upgraded it to 500MB and finally to...

Dear group: I was wondering if anyone could provide some information about MPC going bankrupt. Mainly, I am concerned about the future of the company. Does anyone have any predictions whether they will be back to normal operations or will go broke? We have quite a few Gateway computers that are...

I'll get the model number in a few minutes... But my mother's laptop keeps loosing its time. Yesterday it was two hours behind. Is there an internal Lithium battery I have to replace?

Hi Ben First thing I notice was you were still her helping! Maybe you can tell me what is wrong with my old GW G6 333Mhz. All of a sudden it just seems that the memory has been used up. I keep getting the blue screen of Death with the code OE 0028:0000000D and have gone through the...

Hi, My new system will be arriving shortly and although this question is a little on the generic side I'm sure some will have suggestions that I hadn't thought of. Basically, I'm polling to see which softwares people use to secure the ship and keep it running smoothly. So far, it seems that the...

My neighbor just bought a Gateway T-1631 with an AMD Turion 64x2 chip and it came with Vista Home Premium 32-bit. Is this typical of Gateway to match 32-bit Windows with a 64-bit chip?

I have been given a gateway2000 G6-300s Computer system and it has a lot of personal things on there. I would like to restore the computer to it's factory settings but I am not sure if I even have those discs. I can't seem to find any info on this model and what would come with it and am...

I came across this in another NG and thought I would share it with the Gateway NG. I am Cutting and Pasting the whole article below without any commentary from me. ++++++++++++++++++++++ START ++++++++++++++++++++++++ DANGEROUS new internet security hole Well ok maybe not all that new; but in...

I'm considering getting a second 80 gb hard drive just for backup. (Circuit City has a WD today for $69.99.) Currently all I have is Win XP, but I may create a Linux partition one of these days. PowerQuest's Drive Image 7 and Symantec's Ghost are two names I'm familar with, though not the...

I can't remember if it was this NG that I got this info from or not so please forgive if I am covering old ground here. I while back on some NG I saw a message where you could goto MS and sign up for a free CD that contains all the updates you see on the MS update site. So…. I ordered one. Got...

Helpful friends - Here's a problem with my Gateway Performance 450, 4.5 years old. For the last two days, the dial-up connection to my ISP dials up and connects after I select shutdown, and also immediately upon bootup. When shutting down, it gets about halfway through the modem training and...

I just installed a new 300G HD into (3) 71G partitions, it took some time getting is configured though. I have ran into some problems with the Over Lay software. It has made my Drive Image unusable. Any suggestions? Main Circuit Board 1900 megahertz Intel Pentium 4 8 kilobyte primary memory...

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I have read so many negative comments about Gateway and their machines that I thought for a change I would post a positive comment just so newbies might know there are people who have been happy with their machines. In Oct 98 I purchased my Gateway G6 333 mghz with a EV700 monitor. I have used...