Want to get my wife one for Christmas. $500 15 inch screen no AMD processor min 3 gig memory Is GW still good option? emachine? Son says to avoid Dell with their current problems.

Hi 7 year old Gateway Profile 4 won't boot up fully. Get only a mouse cursor on the monitor. Monitor is known good. No beep during POST. Harddrive was removed and booted another PC properly. Hard drive is believed good. Peripherals light up on power up. WinXP Home Edition. Power supply is...

I have two Win98 machines and two WinXP machines. I put Acronis images for their hard drives on a 500GB external WD drive. I divided the external drive into two partitions. I thought I had formatted the Win98 backup partition to FAT32, but I just checked and both partitions are NTFS. Apparently, in...

Greetings, I am still using a Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboard that I received with my first computer in 1994 (although the computer I am now using it on is not much younger). Once you have become used to having this keyboard, you find that you can't live without it. I am thoroughly versed in the...

Bear with me, this is lengthy. I have discovered a problem with the Gateway install of XP MCE in my 832GM that thus far Gateway is unwilling to resolve. This may affect you, too, cuz it may be endemic to all Gateway MCE boxes, and maybe even all Gateway XP and e-Machines XP boxes. I ran the...

What is the maximum hard disk size I can put in a Gateway G6-266 Mhz? Specs: Intel AL440LX, latest Gateway BIOS revision (P18), 192 Mb RAM (not that that matters), original 4 Gb harddisk and 32 speed Mitsumi CD-ROM (both installed as masters), running Windows 98SE. I want to install the drive as...

The pc is running fine, but it gets *extremely* hot after 2 hrs. use. Is that normal for laptops or this model in particular? Also, is it true that if I only use the laptop at home always plugged in, it won't do any harm to the pc to leave the battery out? Thanks to anyone who will enlighten...

Of late I have noticed a delay in the movement with my cursor. Sometimes it just sits there even though I am moving the mouse all over the place and then you will see the indicator that it is getting ready to move (O blue in color rotating) and it will move. Is there any fixes or is this...

This just started. My 5 year old Alienware is having trouble booting up. After letting it rest it will boot up and I get a beep and it will run fine. Is this a power supply failing? I can smell a very faint odor from the power supply, but it doensn't smell hot. Thanks for the help

Hi Group can anyone offer me some tips on CD recovery software that works? I have tried about 8 (trial versions) so far they all say they can recovery if I pay anywhere from 29.95 to 59.95. If anyone knows of one that really works please let me know. TIA Ray

Hi folks, I have had this Gateway M505 laptop for abt a yr now.. Been working fine so far till y'day. The display is almost totally dark, but I can see the outlines of the icons and windows from an angle.. Nothing I have tried seems to help.. I have tried fiddling with the backlight setting,...

Reloaded W95 on an old PII Gateway and found that MS no longer provides downloads for IE 5.5. IE 6 doesn't run with Win 95. Can a Gateway Windows ME Restore CD be used to put a new OS on this old PII Gateway computer? It's too old to run XP. Flack

It's official... http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-04-01-gateway-stores_x.htm RazeNruin wrote in message ... I guess to be on the safe side I should say it's all speculation. But much of it is...

When I was running 98SE, I always backed up my outlook express messages which were neatly located in a directory windows. Each account I had in outlook express had its own directory and all I had to do was back those directories up. The when I did restoration, all I had to do was import the...

I had to re-install winxp home (critical error on boot, nothing worked). I did the dreaded FDISK, Format C: based on GW tech support directions. I wound up with a different folder structure (no winxp or OEM folders at all in the root of C:/. And to top it off, i'm only getting a little more than...

Gateway Essential 950c, FlexATX MB and SFX PSU. No added cards. When I press the power switch, it will only come on momentarily - the power indicator light is yellow and the PS fan spins a couple of times, and that's it. I tried another working ATX power supply, and the computer behaves exactly...

Just wonderin'........

Last June, my Gateway PIII-450, Win98se, started the following irritating behavior: It goes through the windows splash screen, the login doalog appears, I log in, then the disc drives whir for a moment, and a error box pops up telling me there was an error in explorer, which will be shut down. At...

Looking for a latop for my college bound daughter. Circuit City has the gateway 6010GZ Notebook on sale for 699 this week. Any thoughts on on this model? Any suggestions for a like Notebook?

I have a Gateway G6-200 tower with Intel VS440FX motherboard and the Pentium II Overdrive chip (replacing the original Pentium Pro). I would like to run Windows XP Pro (now running Win98SE) and upgrade to a Pentium IV. I want to keep the existing G6-200 tower case and disks, but replace the...