Has anyone had any experience with the Gateway Media Center...or any of the other media pcs out.? Are they worth the $ ?

Recently, I have found that my system will take between 60 to 90 seconds longer than before to boot. It will boot up, and once it has, all seems to be fine. Any thoughts as to why it is taking this much longer for the OS to boot up completely these last few weeks? Thanks to all.. Fox

I have a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan YE0711-01 monitor and every time I turn on the power the monitor menu comes up. Does anyone know how to keep the monitor menu from coming up ? Thanks Dave

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...

What model is the 18.1 Flat screen (7004666) that Gateway is currently selling with their systems. Is it the FPD 1830. How does it compare to the FPD 1810 that I now have. Bill

I picked up this notebook in exchange for some work I did for a women who is divorced. Her name is on the notebook with the place she bought it from, so I don't think it is stolen. Before her husband divorced her he put a password on the harddrive and the notebook was rendered usable. I build...

I just purchased a DVD +R RW drive for my computer. I want to transfer my old VHS tapes to DVD, and maybe create some movies from scanned pictures and digital camera photos.. I know that I need a connector to connect the analog VCR and camcorder to the computer. I am not interested in the...

My 700x is almost out of warranty, and I'd like to move it to a nicer case. I am hoping to quiet things down a bit with a new power supply, etc. All of the cases I have looked at don't include an I/O plate that matches my Intel 850 ATX motherboard. My MB has the 2 extra USB 2.0 connections and...

try targus or you can call gateway the have a dept for overseas peter "Bradley C. Goldsmith" wrote in message ... Yeah. But most of the people peddling solo parts are in the states and won't

Would appreciate any sage advice concerning a problem I'm having connecting *external* speakers to my Gateway 400SD laptop, running WinXP Home. Sound card is ESS Allegro PCI (WDM). All sound works fine through unit's built-in speakers: mp3s, system sounds, CDs, etc. all work fine. Because of...

Where would be the best online place to purchase an additional large volume hard drive without having to give up my firstborn child? I am looking to get an additional 60 or so GB. -- Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. "Last night fear knocked on my...

This is a new machine to me, just got it last week as an online order. I have Win XP pro, Pent 1.4M, 60GB, 512 RAM, & DVD-R (upgraded 200 E model). There always seems to be a hiccup with standby in all the notebook machines I have owned, but I keep hoping. It appears, in my experience, that is it...

I just got a CD burner, and after writing to CDRW using Nero and burning more than one session, I can only see the first session on my 9300 laptop. I see others have had problem with this generally. Some people have reported that it depends on the drive reading the CD (the CD burner CAN read...

The AVG ver 7 upgrade (for my purchased ver 6) fails with the error message that 'DCOM must be installed'. Grisoft tech support confirms that I must have DCOM installed. Version 6 apparently did not require DCOM because I have it installed on a '2 user license' basis on 2 co-located machines. ...

Super Micro P6DGU/DBU, Dual PIII 500 XP Pro. Been through the groups, Google, MSKB. Edited Reg. Enabled APM in BIOS and Control Panel. I DON'T HAVE NT/Apm/Legacy Interface Node listed in Device Manager (hidden devices). Can I copy NT/Apm.sys from one comp to the other or extract it from...

I rented a Veggie Tales-Jonah DVD ... and tried to play it on my desktop. Ravisent CinePlayer launched and I was able to get to the main menu and chose "Play Movie" which promptly locked up the computer. Using CTL-ALT-DEL showed me that Ravisent CinePlayer was not responding. I am able to...

Want to buy the follwing processors Xeon 700 Mhz 1 Mb cache 5/12 V sl4xv / sl49q ( 174448-b21 ) any brand Xeon 700 Mhz 2 Mb cache 5/12 V sl49s / sl4xx ( 174449-b21 ) any brand Xeon 900 Mhz 2 Mb cache 5/12 V sl4xz ( 222627-b21 ) any brand Xeon Dp 2.0 Ghz 400 FBS sl6em ( or any other step ) Xeon Dp...

Please help. For some reason, in the last few days, whenever I go into IE 6.0 and it requires typing, it either freezes or you have to wait for minutes until a character will appear when you type it in a typaable field. What is wrong?

Hello, on a Gateway2000 computer (Gman G5 166Mhz MMX) I had the 00AAES035 and upgraded to 00AAES054 without backup as the utility provided by Gateway doesn't give the option to backup former version and doesn't even prompt to proceed. The BIOS upgrade resulted in the loss of the ability to boot...

Hello to all. Having trouble with my select 1200, win xp pro, two hard drives both have win xp pro installed. Drives are labeled c drive and h drive. When computer is working right, on start up , I get a choice of which drive to boot to. Well, now after selection on c drive, before the desktop...