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gateway notebook boot error
Hi, I've been having this problem for atleast two months now. I tried
fixing it myself for several weeks, but I finally gave up and sent it into gateway so that they could fix it. I got the computer back about 2 weeks after sending it in and almost immediately the same problem happens again no more then about an hour or so after opening it up out of the box. This problem started happening about two months ago, I reformatted the hdd and re-installed xp using the blue oem cd the gateway gave me with the computer. Okay so after all the formatting and installing windows I got all the windows updates, sp2, installed all my spyware, anti-virus, turned on the sp2 firewall on, etc etc. So after doing that for a few hours I put the computer into standby mode. Leave it off for about 8 hours or so. I turn it back on and maybe 30 minutes or later the computer really seems to be lagging alot, it eventually freezes and locks up. I have no choice but to press the power button and manual shut it off, okay. So now I press the power button and it boots back up, but it seems to stop and freeze at the Gateway Splash screen for maybe like a minute or two, after that a black screen comes up with the following error message. PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 Copyright 1985-2002 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All Rights Reserved BIOS version 38.00.35 System ID = 31662677 Build Time: 03/12/03 12:39:09 CPU = Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz 503M System RAM Passed 256K Cache SRAM Passed System BIOS shadowed Video BIOS shadowed Mouse initialized ERROR 0211: Keyboard Error ERROR 0260: System timer error Press F1 to resume, F2 to Setup I tried pressing F1 and F2 but nothing works. Sometimes I can get lucky and actually boot up to Windows XP and it seems to work fine for about 30 - 2 hours before it totally locks up and requires the power button to be pressed, and then I get the same error all over again. This is a really weird boot error I seem to be getting. I've tried re-formatting the hdd and re-installing windows xp 4 times already with no success. I just continue to get the same error message over and over again. I've tried reseating the memory ram and the hdd, still I get the same error message. I have a Gateway 400VTX notebook, Intel Celeron 2.2GHz processor, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd. Running Windows XP Home. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I've come to several conclusions of my own, the hdd could be bad or the motherboard could be bad. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks. |
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It probably won't work because that keyboard error probably isn't a real
keyboard error, but try an external keyboard just for the hell of it. Sounds like a board issue really...how did Gateway "fix" it for you exactly? "snakeyes37" wrote in message news:8df95$42701227$455da0d2$3240@allthenewsgroups .com... Hi, I've been having this problem for atleast two months now. I tried fixing it myself for several weeks, but I finally gave up and sent it into gateway so that they could fix it. I got the computer back about 2 weeks after sending it in and almost immediately the same problem happens again no more then about an hour or so after opening it up out of the box. This problem started happening about two months ago, I reformatted the hdd and re-installed xp using the blue oem cd the gateway gave me with the computer. Okay so after all the formatting and installing windows I got all the windows updates, sp2, installed all my spyware, anti-virus, turned on the sp2 firewall on, etc etc. So after doing that for a few hours I put the computer into standby mode. Leave it off for about 8 hours or so. I turn it back on and maybe 30 minutes or later the computer really seems to be lagging alot, it eventually freezes and locks up. I have no choice but to press the power button and manual shut it off, okay. So now I press the power button and it boots back up, but it seems to stop and freeze at the Gateway Splash screen for maybe like a minute or two, after that a black screen comes up with the following error message. PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 Copyright 1985-2002 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All Rights Reserved BIOS version 38.00.35 System ID = 31662677 Build Time: 03/12/03 12:39:09 CPU = Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz 503M System RAM Passed 256K Cache SRAM Passed System BIOS shadowed Video BIOS shadowed Mouse initialized ERROR 0211: Keyboard Error ERROR 0260: System timer error Press F1 to resume, F2 to Setup I tried pressing F1 and F2 but nothing works. Sometimes I can get lucky and actually boot up to Windows XP and it seems to work fine for about 30 - 2 hours before it totally locks up and requires the power button to be pressed, and then I get the same error all over again. This is a really weird boot error I seem to be getting. I've tried re-formatting the hdd and re-installing windows xp 4 times already with no success. I just continue to get the same error message over and over again. I've tried reseating the memory ram and the hdd, still I get the same error message. I have a Gateway 400VTX notebook, Intel Celeron 2.2GHz processor, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd. Running Windows XP Home. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I've come to several conclusions of my own, the hdd could be bad or the motherboard could be bad. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks. |
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