Posts by chrisbean

1. I prefer Intel. Always had pretty good luck with them. 2. A combination of the two.Kinda broke right now so mostly price.Having 5 daughters kinda puts any NEW extras at the bottom of the list.

just for a update and closer on this post. Turned out to be a clash with the ATI video drivers. When I installed XP again, again, again and USED JUST the drivers ,not the full program. I gained the full use of my Fn keys again. I can't...

I have a gateway MX6448 that I need to replace the LCs top cover. Somehow,though the grace of god, I droped my laptop from my table and cracked the cover and broke a corner but not the lcd screen!! Anyway Ebay had on for .99 with $10...

Can't be the router side. I can turn on my other laptop and log right in.(no password or WEP - for now) The little wireless button isn't even lite up even though it says it's on and workiing fine.I'm not sure what I need to test it or...

For a couple of times when i turned on my laptop the wireless wouldn't work.Well sort of. It would say "no wireless networks found" or something like that.No ? marks in the device manager. But if I restarted it again it would...

My internal wireless works every once in awhile. I never had this problem befroe on any laptop I've owned so I don't know it it means the card is dying or what? I've been told there is a "whitelist" on what card do and don't...

Sorry about the lack of info. It's a gateway MX6448 with Media Center 2005. And yes it happened before I replaced the hard drive. And the drive was 100Gb and it was only 4200 RPM. Found a 80 Gb 7200 rpmhard drive.And it's the only issue...

Ok so I re-re-reinstall XP again..new hard drive) and I still have problems with the Fn key function. If I use it to dimm or brighten the screen or turn up/down/mute the sound,the screen goes black except for a small patch of mixed color...

I really didn't think so. I know it' don't show with Intel CPU so I figured about he same with AMD. I was hoping for maybe a 2.0 or 2.2. As for ram. I guess one RAM slot is dead(@%$*&!&!!) But I could look for a7200 RPM hard...

But is it any faster? Just 300MhZ faster? I haven't used or messed with AMD before till this notebook.