20 Most Recent Gateway MT3705 Notebook - Page 5 Questions & Answers

remove the battery immediately, do not try to turn it on. if you can get yourself a sack of uncooked rice, put the notebook in it and leave it there for a couple of days. the uncooked rice absorbs all the moist from electronic gadgets.

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This could be a sign that your laptop is overheating. If you touch the laptop while it is running & you find it too hot, make sure that the fan is running properly & that the air ways are not blocked.
You can blow compressed air into the cooling vents of the fan. If you notice clouds of dust coming out, then it might be a good idea to disassemble the laptop, clean the fan & air ways, & reassemble it back. If the fan has failed & is no longer running, it might need to be replaced.

If none of this solves the problem, or is not the case, then you might have a bad motherboard.

Thank you mewms_14904. The problem was the F key. In my case it was F7 that enables and disables the glide pad of my notebook.By pressing fn key and then F7 solved my case.

Do you hear the OS booting up(Start up sounds and stuff). Did you try hooking it up to an external monitor? If not then please try it and see if it works with the external monitor. From what you have described it sounds like a LCD screen/backlight failure.

You may need to download the driver(s) and any possible apps for your laptop. This is based on the assumption that your laptop supports Windows 7. If this is the case, Gateway should have the available drivers for you web cam. Worse case scenario is that you'll have to search the internet for the driver(s) in case Gateway does not have them.

I had the same problem, so I deleted a bunch of applications like Messenger and Skype that also use the webcam but that didn't work. Finally, I deleted something called Windows 7 codecs and my webcam started working again. If you happen to have that program on your computer--delete it; otherwise, keep looking for the culprit. It took me about three days of messing around to nail it.

1. Take the battery out of the laptop & try to turn on the laptop using power adapter only. If the computer turns on, then the battery is defective & needs to be replaced.
2. Make sure the power adapter is not defective. Test the output voltage of the power adapter using a voltmeter. Compare the voltmeter reading to the nominal value written on the adapter or the laptop.
3. If you have another processor which is compatible with your laptop's model, try swapping processors & test to see if the laptop will work.
4. The power button could be bad.
5. The motherboard could be defective & needs to be replaced.

Have you scanned your computer? cec_main.exe is a windows component that detects computer errors. BUT!!!! this component might be a malware. These windows component are often copied by malwares so they cannot be detected as viruses. First thing you need to do is run a virus scan and get rid of that error...

There could be two possible reason for such a problem either you got two or multiple CD drive and you might have inserted the Disk in other drive...please check how manny CD ROm Drive you have got..check both the drive, open both the tray
Else its possible that someone else ejected the drive and took out the disk, please check if someone else had used the computer

Technically and practically its not possible that CD disapper inside the system as inside the computer cabinet, there is no such space except the CD drive.

Hope this would help

type camera in the search under the start menu and you will see a little camera if u have the nv52.. just click it and it will start your cam

Ok they thought of this issue about 2 years after the 1st CDROM was made. If you look real real close you should see a little tiny hole near the tray of the rom. Take a paperclip and stretch it out until its straight. Stick it in the tiny hole and it should push ur CD tray out for u to retrieve ur cd back. If the paperclip is too big look 4 a straight pin or heavy needle.

reboot your laptop , read the screenwhen it says press ? for boot menu
press (f8) for bios

press the one that says boot menu and then when it asks you where to boot choose the one that says hard drive. when that boots up and works. you need to restart your pc and press the f8 one to go into bios, then go to the boot tab, and change it to boot 1st from your hdd. somehow it got changed and it is looking somewhere else for the boot directions and its making errors

There is a power button on your laptop which looks like ( ' )
press it for some time and it will start.you will lights coming on.if it is not coming on like that,connect your laptop to power adapter ,may be your battery is not charged

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Replacing the touchpad of your laptop is not difficult but because laptop parts are very delicate you need to be careful

To remove the touchpad you need to remove the top cover, also known as the palm rest

1.Power off the Gateway laptop, then disconnect the AC adapter from the power jack. Remove any other devices connected to the laptop.

2.Place your hand on a bare metal surface to release any buildup of static electricity. Close the lid to your laptop and turn the computer over.

3.Slide the battery lock over to the side to pop the battery out from its compartment.

4.Set the battery aside, then turn your computer over once again so that it's facing up. Rotate the laptop so that the back (not the bottom) is facing you.

5.Remove the two screws securing the bezel in place from the back of the laptop

6. Open the lid to the laptop, then insert a flat-head screwdriver underneath one end of the bezel to loosen it from the top cover. The bezel is located just above the keyboard, but below the monitor

7. Carefully remove the bezel the rest of the way. Insert the end of the flat-head screwdriver underneath the top of the keyboard to pull it away from the laptop.

8. Turn the keyboard over and place it face-down on the top cover. Remove the cable connecting the keyboard to the motherboard. You may need to pull back and unlock a connector securing the cable in place.

9. Set the keyboard aside. Remove the four screws located just beneath the display panel, then remove the cable connecting the monitor to the motherboard. Carefully set the LCD display aside.

10. Remove the four screws located near the center of the top cover. Release small blue and white cable connecting the touchpad to the Gateway laptop.

11.Pull the top cover up from the base of the laptop, removing the touchpad along with it.


NOTE; you can remove your touchpad and swap it out with a new one, but you can also buy a top cover with a touchpad pre-installed.

just delete the home page you dont want.
go to Tools / options, choose the general tab and you set your home page there, if you have closed the tab you dont want, just click on use current page

what is the error saying. This might be something very serious or if you can tell me the error i can tell you if it can be solved.

There should be a tiny hole next to the eject button:

• Straighten out a paper clip and push it into the little hole until you feel it "make contact"
• Then, give it some "encouragement" (push it in farther) -- once you've pushed the paper clip in far enough, the CD drive should then manually eject itself
  

Hope that helps!

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The Gmail themes tab is missing from the Settings because you are using the older Gmail version. To use themes on your account, you need to change to the standard version or the more advanced Gmail version. And this is how you do it.
Log in to your Gmail account. Once you get to the inbox, check for the Newer version link near the top right. You cannot miss it - it's to the right of the Settings link. By the way, changing the Gmail version will not harm or delete your email messages are information, so go ahead and click on the link.

Most probably you pressed the F11 key in the upper key row on your keyboard, and it entered "full screen" mode.
Press F11 to exit full screen mode, this should do the trick.

If this is not the case, please come back and write a comment to that effect, we'll try to assist you further.
Good luck :)