Posts by RickInHouston

I tried buying a second bay tray from Gateway and then buying the hard drive separately and they wouldn't do it. My first extra bay came with a 60 GB drive (back in March when I bought it). The second time I called to buy a hard drive...

Battery bay is separate. Hard drive is under storage, hard drives, notebook hard drives, Gateway and hard drive with bracket kit. I think it is this. Call them to make sure. It fits on the left removable drive bay. The floppy/or 6...

My wireless signal would drop off or switch to a close neighbor's wireless signal. I did a search and found: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br...lessdrop1.mspx uncheck enable authentication box. It's made the difference for me.

Your M675 will be able to handle what you need it to do. I would suggest that if you're big into photoshop or need more hard drive space (for video) to simple buy a second drive for the 6 in 1 bay. I currently have two 80 Gig HD's...

Thanks a great deal for the response. My computer acts the same as yours when accessing explorer. At times when I extend the tree to show all programs I get the flashlight search for about a minute or two, then all is fine. I will...

I've had the 'puter since March. Just noticed for the last week or so, after booting up if I click on icons it won't open the program. After about 20 seconds I hear (the hard drive start spinning) noise and then it works fine. ...

I just bought a second swappable hard drive for my M675- one hard drive will have photo backups on it, the other mp3 files- they are for the 6 in one card reader bay. Can they be assigned the same letters when I configure them (for...

I had a laptop with one broken hinge and months later the second went out. Talk about immediatley useless machine. It was like a free moving door hinge. I took it apart and have since made two attempts at repairing it. (Compaq wanted...

Wide screen may be a big benefit (same screen as 17 inch Powerbook). I outfitted mine with a second 60 Gig hard drive (do CAD programs use/benefit from separate scratch drives?). Up to 2 Gig of RAM? Photoshop CS is a tough program,...

Do you have to use Easy Creator or can it be done in Windows? Thanks for any help.