20 Most Recent Gateway GT5670 Desktop PC Questions & Answers

Try another monitor. Here's some tricks I would try... 1. Verify the monitor's power cord is plugged firmly into the wall outlet and the back of the monitor. 2. Verify the monitor cable is firmly connected to the computer and the monitor. 3. Verify that you have turned the monitor power switch on. 4. If the power light on the monitor is not on, test the wall outlet (plug in a light or something you know works). 5. If the power light on the monitor is not on, try a different power cord. 6. If the power light is on and yellow or orange or flashing, but nothing displays, or the display is incorrect, borrow a monitor from a friend. If that works, your monitor probably needs replaced. 7. Also, you could try your display on a friend's computer. If it doesn't work, your monitor probably needs replaced. If it works properly on your friends computer, the problem may be with your computers video output port, motherboard video chip (or video card, if you have one), or drivers.

If you have MS Office, save all your documents and re-install office. Once installed setup you outlook again, see if the issue is resolved. Also check you configuration for outlook and write them down so you have them when you setup outlook again.

When you turn the system on do you see the BIOS on the screen?

• the power cord plugged in?
• Is the outlet good?
• Are you plugged into a power supply is it good?
• Try a different outlet
• Is the monitor on?
• Question I have, when you hit the power button do you hear the fans?
• If you hear the fans, I would have it taken to a repair shop and have the CPU checked and the memory sticks, they could be bad.

Hi Dear,The problem you discussed is hardware related, IT has to do with the cmos battery or the Sata cable.Disconnect/Connect CMOS battery and reconfigure BIOS settings again based on defaults- Replace "ALL" SATA Cables and reconnect all drivesRegardsSamson Ved

More than likely it's a lever to open the case or to take the front panel off...

test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions SATA

the leads from your (motherboard to your hard drive) make sure they have a secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty

make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd have secure connections and are not faulty

even something as small as an electrical extension lead or a faulty fan lead can cause you problems computer needs all of the data and power to travel through every working device and to have an end for a computer to be able work properly

a motherboard and a hard drive any leads between them will fail before your motherboard or your hard drive check all electrical extensions make sure they are securely seated even the cd/dvd drives need to have current go through make sure these devices are working

check the CPU central processing unit make sure it has thermal paste and dust free secure seating

also check your computer ram modules and cmos battery make sure it has charge and they are dust free and securely seated some motherboards cmos batteries are soldered in

also check the keyboard and mouse batteries or ps2 or usb leads and connections if applicablehope it helps

Sounds like your motherboard is messed up. Replace the motherboard.

Hi,I think the problem may lie with the newly installed RAM.

• Turn off the PC
• Remove the RAM.
• Check the RAM's slot and probably blow out any dust in it.
• Check the pins on the RAM and make sure they are not damaged.
• Fit the RAM back into its slot making sure its fully seated.

Also,check the graphics card.

• Remove it,blow out any dust on its seating and then fit it back.

Make sure all power and interface connections to and from the hard drives are well fitted.Hope this helps.Thanks!

No, you can't. (Well, it might be possible, but very unlikely, that it would work.) Recovery discs are made for specific machines. There are a couple of reasons why the discs for one system can't be used for another brand or model.

In addition to installing the operating system (Windows), recovery discs also include drivers for the machine's included hardware (video, sound, media card slots, etc.). The drivers on the recovery disc for an eMachines system won't have what a Gateway system needs, unless they were built using exactly the same motherboard and other parts, which would be quite unusual. If wrong hardware drivers are installed, Windows may not start and give you the famous "blue screen of death". Or Windows will start, then begin finding new hardware and asking you for drivers you won't have (although you could find them at the Gateway website). The discs also include the applications the manufacturer preloaded on the system. Some of these may not work and cause problems because of the hardware differences (a sound control program with the wrong sound hardware, for instance).

The other reason is that a restore disc also includes information that gets placed into Windows so the system comes up already activated and ready to go. Activation is based on information about the hardware configuration of the system, and yours won't be correct. Windows will see the this and you'll need to activate manually. If the Windows version on the eMachines recovery disc isn't exactly the same as the one on the Gateway, the product key on the computer won't work when you try activation.

Rather than try using the wrong recovery disc, see if you can borrow or download the installation disc for the Windows version specified on the product key sticker on the Gateway. Then you can do a clean new Windows installation and activate it using the product key. You can find the drivers your computer needs at Gateway's website as I mentioned before. It's more work than just running the recovery disc, but it will work. This does mean the system won't have any of the preloaded applications originally on the computer when you're finished. But this is not a bad thing.

Much of the preloaded stuff on a new computer is often called "bloatware", which you really don't need. It just slows the computer down, uses up Windows resources, and may be gathering information and sending it to sites behind your back. You can find good free programs to do anything originally installed and install only what you really need and want. Here are a few suggestions to get you started:

CD/DVD burning: CDBurnerXP
Antivirus: AVG, Avast!
Audio processing: Audacity
Image processing: GIMP
Office suite: OpenOffice

Good luck getting the system back up and running. Thanks for using Fixya!

these computers have a built in network card. by it saying that this is telling me you have a after market network card. if this is true you are going to want to look and find out what one it is. you then can type that model into Google with the drivers behind it and should be able to update the drivers.

I strongly suggest that you format the hard drive and reload your software and drivers. It is possible you have a trojan virus, or your operating system isn't a genuine copy. Good luck

Problably you will need to go back to "default options " by press F9 on boot" and problably loose all your prsonal data.
Or you can post your issue here.

leave only the motherboard and power supply connected. power on. listen for beeps....then put in the processor, check for beeps, memory, then video card,, then hard drive. test power supply voltage, or try with a known working power supply. if you still cant find the problem its most likely the motherboard

I am not sure of the specific case you own and there are a multitude of ways to remove the covers. Look in the back of the tower and locate screws or hex bolts along the outer perimeter of the case. Remove those and pull the cse off. If this does not fit your particular case, you may have a case which only allows you to remove one side of the case, but it will gain you access to PCI slots inside.

You did the windows 7 upgrade?

if you do a backup and full instal[reformat] it will work,

OK--you will have to go by the process of elimination.
First, open the case and disconnect all drives (hard drive, CD, DVD).
Now try to boot. Without a drive, it should boot but it will give you an error that says something like "no boot device."
If this works, then reconnect the hard drive. Reconnect everything in turn until you find the bad part.
If it still doesn't boot, you may have a bad memory stick. If you have more than one memory stick, take one out and see if it works. If it does swap it out for the other one.
You could also disconnect any add-in cards in case one of them may have gone bad.

check whether ur microphone is still serviceable. if so you will have to use a proper amplifier in between.

What is flashing?
I would suspect the power light is what you are talking about.
Would indicate a lack of signal. I would suspect a video card problem, but perhaps you are able to start the machine in safe mode. If you can, do a system restore back a few days.
If you can hit F8 and get the menu, try starting it in VGA mode. It's possible that your video resolution was changed to something the monitor can't handle.