Local girl who builds computers got the Gateway last Thursday. She's bringing it back tomorrow. Here's what she found, so far:
-160 watt power supply. Motherboard, per Intel's homepage, calls for 163 watts minimum. It also has a DVD player, a CD burner, and 2 hard drives.
-Modem will NOT connect to MSN network. Connects to her network fine. It's a new modem that Gateway sent a guy out to replace.
-Video card has a trouble in it. It's a high-dollar video card, too. She thinks that may be part of the problem.
-Found problems with XP Home Edition. Tried to get updates: didn't help.
-We bought from, and had Gateway install a 40G HD. The geniuses at gateway had it configured as a 2G HD.
That's all I can think of right now. She didn't fix it. She could have, but reccomended I take it back to Gateway.
I have an old Fone Co friend who first got a TRS 80 from Radio shack, and within about a week or two, had reprogrammed it to do what HE wanted it to do. Think I'll call him tomorrow.
I am very hesitant to take it back to Gateway, because all of the above problems were either IN the computer when we got it, or were PUT in the computer when Gateway worked on it.
-160 watt power supply. Motherboard, per Intel's homepage, calls for 163 watts minimum. It also has a DVD player, a CD burner, and 2 hard drives.
-Modem will NOT connect to MSN network. Connects to her network fine. It's a new modem that Gateway sent a guy out to replace.
-Video card has a trouble in it. It's a high-dollar video card, too. She thinks that may be part of the problem.
-Found problems with XP Home Edition. Tried to get updates: didn't help.
-We bought from, and had Gateway install a 40G HD. The geniuses at gateway had it configured as a 2G HD.
That's all I can think of right now. She didn't fix it. She could have, but reccomended I take it back to Gateway.
I have an old Fone Co friend who first got a TRS 80 from Radio shack, and within about a week or two, had reprogrammed it to do what HE wanted it to do. Think I'll call him tomorrow.
I am very hesitant to take it back to Gateway, because all of the above problems were either IN the computer when we got it, or were PUT in the computer when Gateway worked on it.