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gateway laptop not booting

in the past 2 days my 2 month old gateway laptop boots as normal into the gateway boot screen, then nothing happens. if i restart it (by pressing on button!) it boots into a screen saying something like previous boot error press 1 to resume. once booted its fine in every way but why do i have to boot it twice? it just suddenly started happening in the last 2 days. thanks.
Fr. Stack: While you were out, I got the keys to your car. And drove it into a big wall. And if you don't like it, tough. I've had my fun, and that's all that matters.

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  • jamborino
    jamborino Posts: 78 Forumite
    Is it running Vista, and if so have you loaded any new programmes/applications that may not be compatible with Vista?

    A similar thing happened to my Gateway a few days ago after I loaded the software for my Netgear USB WG11T network adaptor. It seems that Vista prefers to use its own drivers and did not like Netgear's proprietory software.

    I uninstalled the software and the problem was sorted.
  • random456
    random456 Posts: 1,654 Forumite
    funny you should say that. the 2 things i have installed was a major update for the radeon graphics driver and a vista compatible logitech webcam, but I need both!? i have also noticed that when installing things from cd as administrator, it hangs just before finishing and i have to run setup again...
    Fr. Stack: While you were out, I got the keys to your car. And drove it into a big wall. And if you don't like it, tough. I've had my fun, and that's all that matters.
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