I know there used to be some smart people who lurked here to help folks like me, so I'm back. Are you there, Ben, anyone? ;) I have an old Activision game that they stopped updating with Win 98. Some people have been able to get Shanghai II to work with XP, although my laptop says XP in some...

I just updated my Gateway GM5091E desktop from Windows XP to Windows 7. Everything seems to be working fine except for the TV tuner. I couldn't find anything on the Gateway site for it. I opened the box and it seems to be an ATI tuner, but the ATI site didn't seem to have to correct drivers...

Not really the right group, but you chaps are very kind. Suddenly all my Explorer windows take 10-20secs. to respond and don't refresh properly. I can see the phrase "load:com.ms.activex.ActiveXcomponent" in the lower border window (what would be the URL bar in IE) which I've never seen before. The...

Hello I'm trying to fix a friend pc. Cleaned it up with adaware and spybot. Checked for viruses. We still get a error when we dial out while in IE 6.0 saying that ie has caused and error in unknown. Netscape does the same thing. I reinstall both. I even did a reinstall on top of the current...

I purchased a 42 inch Plasma t.v. from Gateway two years ago. Four weeks ago the OSD (on-screen discplay menu) came on and hasn't come off since. I contacted Gateway and despite the fact that I should recieve out of warranty service to fix the t.v., they have told me that they don't have the part...

I'm in a market for a new Monitor. I am considering 3 LCD makes, and I am willing to spend approx $500. The brands I am interested are 1. Sony, 2. NEC, 3. Viewsonic. Should I consider other brands, and would like to hear your experience, pro and contra, with these makes.

Do not know if my GW is feeling it’s age or if there is a software problem. Running WIN98 SE and cannot create a new folder on drive – get error message and request to debug brings up DrWatson and about 10 error messages. Also cannot run check disk to fix errors. Otherwise everything works well...

Original email sent to Gateway: I believe the video card has a problem. The screen went dark, then came back with a device failure error. Several times it wouldn't reboot. Once it did but then the picture broke up and froze. Can you please send me instructions for sending it in for...

So, i use to have a gateway laptop but i got rid of it like 2 months ago. Today in the mail i received a copy of "Express upgrade to windows vista home basic" So, what i want to knwo is if i can install this windows vista home basic on my desktop. Its not a gateway, but does that matter? Or can...

This was emailed to my supervisor while working at the Greenville, SC Gateway Country Store -- I remembered the customer right away... pretty bizarre letter, heh???

How do I get rid of a program that for some reason loads each time I turn on the computer or reboot? I dont want to get rid of the program but just not have it load up until I want to use it, Windows XP Home Missy Brown

Hi, What benchmarking utilities would give me a good overview of my computers performance level and alert me to sub-par operation for the given hardware configuration? My system is as follows: Pentium 4 Processor at 2.8GHz with 800MHz front side bus 1 GB DDR 400MHz SDRAM (2 DIMMs)

Since the Gateway paperwork does not tell you what type of memory you have, is the only way to know... to open the case? I have a Performance 1500, P4, with only 128MB RAM. I'll have to hire someone to install it anyway, but wanted to know what I should be getting before I call someone, and the...

Greetings, I would like to buy a LCD Monitor to go with my Gateway Performance 1400 PC. I would like to hear of some comments and recommendations for Gateway LCDs or other monitors available on the market. Thank you in advance for your comments and help. Leer

I have Paint Shop Pro on my Win95a system...200 MHz Pentium with 96 mb RAM. I went to install Paint Shop Pro 8, but it requires IE 5 or above (+ Win98) to install it. Do I want to put IE 5 or 6 on a Win95 machine? I suspect it would slow it down. Thanks! Scott.

Just had a funny conversation with a rep at Gateway about what Centrino actually is. I'm not syaing I'm an expert about this (because I'm NOT), but I don't make a living selling these products either. I connected to Gateway's live chat feature to see if they had anything similar to a Dell...

I purchased a Gateway Essential 900c in September, 2001. I get a fair amount of crashes (freezes; requires shutdown; reboot with scan) with it. A friend told me Gateways were notorious for having poor power transformers. In others' experience, would it be worthwhile to replace the power...

I have one of these monitors which has failed. Gateway cannot or will not supply any service information. I know the monitor was manufactured by LG electronics. Does anyone know the equivalent LG model number so that I may order a schematic diagram for repair? Mike in Ohio

Hi, I have just acquired a new PC (Dell, sorry - Gateway don't sell in the UK anymore), and I'd like to confure my old G6-400 as a server running Linux. I want to operate it 'headless', i.e. without monitor , keyboard or mouse. As regards the monitor I can simply not connect one, but I think the...

Last night the kids told me their PC's screen started going blank with no keyboard reaction so there was nothing they could do but a hard power off. When I pressed the power button the machine went through it's usual BIOS check, after that completes I received a black screen with the...