Posts by BOSSAIC

I have had my M675 for a year now w/ the "original" screen and am curious to know if Gateway has come out w/ a screen that is similiar to Toshibas Trubrite display (the glossy looking one). If so, is it possible to replace the...

Those are the lights in question. Wondering if those lights actually have lightbulbs. Seems like their only purpose in life is to be a dummy. Sounds like me and my laptop have much in common

I am curious to know if anyone has ever seen the other blue LED lights on the keyboard portion light up besides the WI-FI and POWER buttons. If so, how did you do it? Seems like 4 wasted LED's to me. Thanks in advance.

For all those that have a 675 and might look to reinstall xp pro make sure you boot to the burgundy disc first. I tried to install xp pro directly from the blue disc which looks like the correct way of doing business, and it installed...

even in administrator mode it will not allow me to delete those folders. i can rename them, however, i can not delete the folders due to the update.exe file not allowing itself to be cremated.

when it asks me during the installation process to put in user account name put "ADMINISTRATOR"?

When I installed XP PRO it asked me for name of account, I entered my name. So it has Administator and David as the user accounts. Whenever I boot up the David acct comes up with (I am assuming) all the same priviledges as administrator....

I reinstalled win xp pro on my 675 laptop w/ the GATEWAY reinstall CD and there are folders leftover after the install I cannot delete such as C:\jfdsvb8oe5789y4g\sp2\update\update.exe. There are a number of those folders and I dont have...

Things I have already tried: 1)msconfig - safe mode 2)renaming files and changing permissions (not authorized for the update.exe file) 3) reinstalled again 4) Task MGR and shut down all processes including explorer w/ cmd.exe open...

I reinstalled win xp pro on my laptop and there are folders leftover after the install I cannot delete such as C:\jfdsvb8oe5789y4g\sp2\update\update.exe. There are a number of those folders and I dont have (maybe obviously) SP2, I have...