Problem is, I cant even get past step 1, removing the back cover of the machine. There are no screws at the back, no sliders, absolutely nothing that would indicate a way to open the back.

The gateway support site has no answers and neither do their representatives they provided through live chat on their website. If this thing was assembled then its got to be possible to be disassembled? Anyone know how?

⟐ Answered June 24, 2016 at 14:42 MST

⟐ Answer accepted August 16, 2022 at 17:07 MST

⟐ Answer accepted December 09, 2015 at 6:07 MST

I have the PC open and there is nothing that may look like a CR2032 or any other cylindrical battery. It is dead and I can't even boot, need to replace it, if known where it is :-( THANK YOU - lorenzo.main@comcast.net

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Thanks in advance

Phil

⟐ Commented January 04, 2019 at 20:05 MST

⟐ Commented December 12, 2017 at 15:01 MST

⟐ Answered May 04, 2015 at 0:24 MST

My desktop - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...

⟐ Edited February 17, 2014 at 11:42 MST

⟐ Edited December 26, 2013 at 16:31 MST

Here is the old P2 connector:

Here is the new 8 contact connector:

Here are the new power sup specs:

Here is the motherboard info (hopefully turned the right way!):

Thanks to yous guys I've got everything all plugged in and ready to go as soon as I dig up a little bit of heat sink paste! Thanks to everybody that got me on the right track!!

⟐ Answer edited November 24, 2022 at 14:32 MST

⟐ Answered August 05, 2022 at 0:29 MST

⟐ Answer accepted June 06, 2017 at 9:18 MST

⟐ Commented September 08, 2023 at 8:07 MST

computer boots but no display , ive used several monitors , and still nothing i have a repair disc , any tricks ?

no video card , i just hooked up other monitors and cables , to make sure it wasn't one of those .

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⟐ Commented January 29, 2023 at 19:31 MST

If someone could point me to an article on the evolution of power and data connectors, it would be a big help!

All he did was test the power supply. It was arcing! Otherwise he did nothing except to remove the two drives and put them in static free bags. There are the big 24 wire ribbon data connectors which are clearly marked master and slave. but they don't seem to be usable for these drives. It is a much different picture than I had envisioned a month ago when I told him the upgrade to W11 would be unnecessary and too expensive! I just wanted things back to were they were so my wife could get back to her writing - she loves the old keyboard! I can send some pictures.

⟐ Commented November 23, 2022 at 13:33 MST

⟐ Commented June 28, 2022 at 21:12 MST

On closer inspection, the plastic jumpers had been melted to the pins and I was only able to get half of one of the jumpers to crumble off. They were on 5 volts. Also one of the pin holes on the socket was burnt and melted. Only one.

I really want to repair this board but i don’t know if it is fixable without thousands of dollars or fixable at all. This specific computer was made in 1995 but uses 1992 microprocessors. I think this is a development board but I am not completely sure. Needs a really old HDD and OS. I had to get a new clock battery for it but it wouldn’t even boot to MS-DOS because it still said needed a HDD. When I first got it as a gift, I tried to fix it but gave up after the CPU stopped responding. Then got it back out 6 months later and must have tried to find another processor for it and put the CPU back in wrong. Then 1 year later, i decided to fire it up (outside the case luckily) and I saw it smoking and a red light from the CPU voltage pins. (this red light was NOT an LED). I shut it down and put it away for about a month but couldn’t get my mind off it so I decided to search for an answer. I couldn’t get an answer that fit exactly so I decided to ask the question myself. I think the computer has 16 bit architecture but not sure. The CPU did not give me any information on what it was but it was old.

⟐ Answer accepted November 15, 2020 at 21:06 MST

Running repairs results in the following:

Problem signature

Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline

Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385

Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385

Problem Signature 03: unknown

Problem Signature 04: 21200805

Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover

Problem Signature 06: 6

Problem Signature 07: BadDriver

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1

Locale ID: 1033

Last know config doesn't help. System Restore didn't help

⟐ Answered July 09, 2020 at 13:20 MST

⟐ Commented January 12, 2020 at 12:33 MST

⟐ Answered November 03, 2019 at 10:51 MST