Posts by Heffy

In case anyone has experienced "Battery Drain Problems." Battery power may drain more quickly than you expect on a Windows XP SP2-based portable computer. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/9180....dailytech.com

I made a image of the recovery partition before I removed it on mine, even though it's very unlikely I will ever put it back. It's a MX3225.

Are you sure there are two memory slots? I see one on the bottom of the laptop. And I replaced the 256mb card with a 512mb card and would like to put in the extra 256mb that took out. Where is it? I looked in the hardware .pdf

Seem like Gateway may have different recovery CD's for different models. I picked up a MX3225 with 512mb RAM for my wife. On sale for $549 and with some Reward coupons it cost $400. With Bootit I made two extra partitions, one 40GB...

I found out the problem, it was the blooming TV was bad, got a new TV today and it works.

I have been using my notebook with a projector and it's working fine. This morning I thought I would try hooking it up to my TV using a S-Video cable. I set up for TV on the graphics card, and tried the Fn + F4 keys and my TV says no...

Before you open Working with Partitions open Settings first and check the box to use USB 2.0 Support. Then open Work with Partitions. I put my old 80 gig in a USB enclosure and it sees it fine.

I understand your point and you're right. It's mostly because I'm a backup freak that I want to do this. It would only take about 30 to 45 minutes to do it. So making an image of the recovery partition and the OS seems to be just a...

I know it does that I've seen it on other new PC's, and I intend to make the recovery CD's after Windows starts for the first time. But I also want images of the notebook before Windows starts for the first time.

Thanks again for the info. I plan on making a image of the C: partition and the recovery partition before I even start the notebook. I can make a backup partition with BootIt first, them make some images. After I start the notebook...