Posts by Shellie

Hi: I have a Gateway m505 laptop, with a dvd-ram burner...Can I burn dvd-r and dvd-rw discs on this drive too? Also, there is supposed to be a fast infrared port located at the front of the computer, on the dvd drive face itself...What...

It is supposed to be pulled from a new GATEWAY computer...Matsushuta, model UJ-815-C Gateway part #5502958. I thought that all I had to do was install it, and then power it up...I got a screen once, it showed the BIOS version, and the...

I just got the new dvd-rw drive for my laptop. I removed the old cd-rom dvive, and installed the new one. As soon as I powered it on, nothing happened...It powers on and stays on the Gateway screen? What is wrong? Remember I said that...

I just got the new dvd-rw drive for my laptop. I removed the old one and installed the new one. As soon as I powered it on, nothing happened...It powers on and stays on the Gateway screen? What is wrong?

Thanks, GHN. I did check those links and saw some useful info...May not be as daunting a task as I thought. I went into the BIOS and copied down the information, in case I need to re-enter anylthing after I replace the cmos battery. I...

Darn!!!! I guess I am in denial about having to replace that darn battery. I replaced on in my desktop, that was a piece of cake. This opening of the laptop thing scares me...I cannot find anything on the GATEWAY site that actually...

How is it that all of the date and time information is preserved, as long as the ac power is being used? I've had the ac power cord plugged into the laptop for the past three days, and each time I powered the laptop on, the date and...

Hi: I just recently acquired an old Gateway M505 laptop. It has a cd-rom drive that I would like to upgrade to a dvd-rw drive. Gateway support does not offer much help. On Ebay, I see dvdrw drives for every model laptop for sale, but...

Hi: I have an old Gateway laptop computer M505...It has been sitting in a clostet, unused, for over two years. I did a full system recovery. I also purchased a new battery because the old one was DEAD. Would not even charge when AC was...