Matthews1976

William If Youd like to keep your support from Gateway Id suggest that you keep Xp Home on that mechine. Once you format that Hd and install Xp Pro You take over support for that laptop. anything that goes wrong with it while it is running under xp pro wont be covered by gateways warranty and support unless you ordered the computer that way froom the start. I dont think you wasted your money either. Just my two cents. Thanks Matt

Hello all Just wanna say really fast that this is a great site Here's my thing. In Febuary of this year just before my beloved dell dimension XPST500 bit the farm I decided to build a new system. Easy enough since i work for a company that sells computer parts. anyways to get started I selected a Biostar m7vit mainboard that contains a via kt400 chipset ,and an Amd Athlon Xp 2000+ processor, and 512 megs of DDR ram Pc2100. TO enclose all this goodness I bought a generic mini tower case. I also bought a three year parts warrenty that covers anything except physical damage. well anyway after adding a 60 gig maaxtor hard disk from the old dell I was ready to go. I got it home and it wouldnt boot . next day took it back to the company where i had built it and had to replace the case. turned out to be a bum power supply. after that I took it home and began to use the new comp when the old dell just decided to exit. I thought fair enough since the new comp was in use. After two months of use I started to hear a grinding noise emenating from the top of my case. after taking it back to the shop the tech replaced the power supply fan. after that I was using my comp when I realized that It was running to hot at least I thought it was. I was getting stop errors when I was trying to clean install windows 2000 or XP. and so you guessed it I took it back to the shop. and at the shop the tech pulled the heat sink off of the proccessor and had to clean it and apply new grease. During Inital assembly I had put to much on it was covering the processor. Doh. But he put it back together and reinstalled windows Xp pro for me and also applied all the updates and service packs. Thank god for the warranty. After that my comp has been running like a champ/ before that last service stop I upgradeded the 60 gig maxtor drive to an 80 gig seagate hard drive. I gave the 60 gig maxtor drive to my parents for their dell. it replaced a 15 gig maxtor that died shortly after the new drive was installed. well anyways enough of my long winded story . Here is my system specs Amd athlon Xp 2000+ 1.70 gig Biostar m7vit mainboard 512 megs ddr pc2100 ram Soundblaster audigy 2 platinum sound card 128 meg geforce fx 5200 8X agp graphics card realtec 8139 nic connected to Dlink cable modem 80 gig seagate hard disk Lite on 16x dvd rom drive sony 48 speed cd recorder Generic floppy drive Generic mini tower case Just wanted to post hope you all enjoy Thanks Matt