Posts by buckeye rich

I'll contact Gateway and see if they will send me the install disc. It gives me the option to make a recovery disc, but unfortunately it includes all of the extra junk Thanks...

I bought a Gateway NV5378u from Best Buy a few nights ago and would like to do a clean/fresh install of Win 7 on it, without all of the crap that came preloaded. I have made the recovery discs, which I assume is a copy of the factory...

Just an update... I received a call at home on Tuesday night from the Dell tech that had been helping me. She stated that the drive had shipped and that I would have it on Wednesday. Wednesday came and went and no replacement...

Quote: Originally Posted by George Castanza <<I have a question on Dell's 65 watt and 90 watt AC adapter. Does anyone know the difference?>> About 25 watts. AAAWW...you beat me to it!

Quote: Originally Posted by laffingbilly i'd recheck the dvd software...were you using windows media player or some other dvd playing software? Windows media player would not play. Power DVD started to play a...

Quote: Originally Posted by wordhouse888 To threadstarter: Do you have a cdr/dvdrom combo drive or is it a dvd+/-r? Im asking because, the combo cdr/dvd drives are currently backlogged until april 20. so for those...

Quote: Originally Posted by DarqHelmet What type of Laptop is it and What drive do you have NEC/Sony/ETC... I6000 with the Sony DW-D56A. It works fine with cds, it will not play dvds...most of the time. I have...

After spending almost an hour and a half with some very poor English speaking person on Sunday...Dell decided that my brand new laptop needs a replacement dvd-rw drive. It will work with cd's but does not recognize any dvd. They stated...

Quote: Originally Posted by joseyu Cool....good luck with your replacement! Hope everything works out for you! BTW, are you a diehard tOSU football fan? ABSOLUTELY! I am on the verge of being considered an OSU...

Thanks...I really appreciate the help!