repair an old solo 2500

Greetings,
My solo 2500 decided today not to recognize the hard drive. I reseated it
and
had the same experience. Replaced the drive with a known good drive and it
did
the same thing. When I tried to have the bios auto discover the drive it
would hang.
Still, no joy. Called gateway support. They had no ideas other than
sending it in
for repair at $300 plus tax. Thinking maybe the bios was screwy, I
downloaded
and flashed the current bios for the unit (got it from gateway for my exact
machine).
Now the machine will automatically shutdown after a couple of minutes.

Any ideas ? Any good inexpensive repair places ?


thanks,
Darryl

Try reseating the memory modules and CPU.



"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
My solo 2500 decided today not to recognize the hard drive. I reseated
it
and
had the same experience. Replaced the drive with a known good drive and
it
did
the same thing. When I tried to have the bios auto discover the drive it
would hang.
Still, no joy. Called gateway support. They had no ideas other than
sending it in
for repair at $300 plus tax. Thinking maybe the bios was screwy, I
downloaded
and flashed the current bios for the unit (got it from gateway for my
exact
machine).
Now the machine will automatically shutdown after a couple of minutes.

Any ideas ? Any good inexpensive repair places ?


thanks,
Darryl

that didn't help at all.
thanks for the suggestion though.

-Darryl

"Edward J. Neth" wrote in message
...
Try reseating the memory modules and CPU.



"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
My solo 2500 decided today not to recognize the hard drive. I reseated
it
and
had the same experience. Replaced the drive with a known good drive and
it
did
the same thing. When I tried to have the bios auto discover the drive
it
would hang.
Still, no joy. Called gateway support. They had no ideas other than
sending it in
for repair at $300 plus tax. Thinking maybe the bios was screwy, I
downloaded
and flashed the current bios for the unit (got it from gateway for my
exact
machine).
Now the machine will automatically shutdown after a couple of minutes.

Any ideas ? Any good inexpensive repair places ?


thanks,
Darryl