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I changed the battery from another desktop(really old about 8 years old) and placed it in. Still same thing - "CMOS Checksum Bad".
I took the harddrive with winXP from the other old desktop and exchanged it with this one. The first screen did pop up but it went away very fast without my...
Thanks for the timely response starhawk.
by chance is this it? Is there a trick to getting it out? The HDD is blocking my reach. i unscrewed the HDD but i still cant pull it out.
Sorry
After carrying it home from a block away, I tried swapping the RAM slots but i think it got worst. Now 4 out of 5 times when I press the power button to turn it on, the screen is mostly black(no boot logo or any signal sent to monitor) and when it does boots, it loads to this screen...
Hello,
my friends' gateway desktop cannot load windows vista at all. I'm guessing its a hardware failure and needs replacement, the ram or harddrive? My friend don't know what happened.
After the bootup(with the gateway logo) screen, it listed two options - repair or "start windows...