I've mentioned that Gateway that's been holding down the floor for almost two years. We were gifted with a Gateway desktop two years ago, brand new, but having had bad experiences with a previous Gateway, I left it in the box and kept my old Dell running. Well, the Dell got eaten by Windows SP3. The hard drive just is not working and the boot disk didn't help.
So, we broke out the Gateway and set it up. It seemed to be okay. I ran a bunch of Windows XP updates (not SP3), loaded Kaspersky, downloaded a couple of programs and everything seemed find.
Then my husband touched it. He decided to load Sim City 4 while I was at work. Now all the Gateway does when you turn it on is beep, a long beep at regular intervals. My husband said that they (he and my older son) had made some adjustment with the monitor while loading the program or right afterward. The monitor does not start up from standby. I just received a boot disk today (cheap Gateway mofos), which will probably cost me a frikkin fortune for shipping, and it did not do anything.
At this point, the only thing I can think to do is pull the hard drive (of course, the case is practically welded shut, not the easy open kind) and format it.
If anyone has ever heard of this problem, I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you.
So, we broke out the Gateway and set it up. It seemed to be okay. I ran a bunch of Windows XP updates (not SP3), loaded Kaspersky, downloaded a couple of programs and everything seemed find.
Then my husband touched it. He decided to load Sim City 4 while I was at work. Now all the Gateway does when you turn it on is beep, a long beep at regular intervals. My husband said that they (he and my older son) had made some adjustment with the monitor while loading the program or right afterward. The monitor does not start up from standby. I just received a boot disk today (cheap Gateway mofos), which will probably cost me a frikkin fortune for shipping, and it did not do anything.
At this point, the only thing I can think to do is pull the hard drive (of course, the case is practically welded shut, not the easy open kind) and format it.
If anyone has ever heard of this problem, I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you.
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