I also had a gateway some time ago, I sold it to a friend about 3 years ago. I think it was probably one of the last decent machines gateway made. It had a full mid tower case that was made well. A real graphics card as well as a creative labs soundblaster sound card. It even came with a floppy drive, It seems like gateway quit installing those as standard equipment some time ago. I have worked on computers for a lot of people around the area that I am in. To the best of my knowledge I am the only person for at least 15 miles around that builds or repairs computers so I have seen a lot of gates ways since I first got mine and every one has been at the lower end of the quality spectrum. I must have had one of the last reasonably good ones that they made because I have had my fingers into many of them since then and every one has had some shortcomings with quality but this BS with the one that I helped my neighbor with this week is in my mind a whole new leval of crap for Gates way.
I have probably done over a hundred ML installations and have seen more than a few problems along the way but this is the first machine where I have seen something that screwed up.
Marc
Gateway went bust in australia and pulled out... Starting to see why..
I had cause to deal with gateway laptops several years back.. it seemed a solid if uninspired design..
wonder what the modern versions are like.
-- rgds
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