Recent content by blitzseed

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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    it's a copy i got from my school. now that i think of it i think it started after i updated that chipset and realtek driver. i may ask and see if my school has cs4 + and see if i can upgrade, if now i may have to downgrade to elements seeing that sc4-5 is 700+ usd ><
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    need some help, any photoshop cs2-cs3 users here that had updated there system and had phtotshop slow way down? b/c after i did some updates i found that Ps cs3 had slowed way down and cant seem to fix it ><
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    i do have a 500gb wd external hard drive. but how do i back up vista to it? would making a restore disk be ok?
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    what is the best way to make the image? edit: Now as for the drivers are there an order I should install them in?
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    Hey Renegade have some more question for you >< , after I install 7 to my other drive is it ok to just format the gateway driver? I just need the OS drive when I’m installing right? Also need some clarification as for the install, I just want to get it right >< So I move the 1tb driver to port...
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    no i have not does it yet need to wait till the end of the week... low on the money lol ><
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    hey Renegade will a windows 7 upgrade copy work to install to the 1tb drive?
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    ok so I move the 1tb WD to port 0 and the vista drive to one of the other port, then I reboot tell it to use the WD drive, have the windows 7 cd in the dvd drive, use Custom installation install to the WD drive. Install driver and update. Now when I’m in windows 7 can I still see the files on...
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    So now my plan is to try and get windows 7 at the end of next week and try it out. I will be using the 1tb drive I have. I just have some question about that, the 1tb drive has allot of free space will I need to format it or will the win 7 install just partition part of it for windows 7? also...
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    wow ok so all i need to get b4 i do a windows 7 install are the 5 drivers you have already linked to and windows 7 will do whats left? and for the cursor flicker issue is what i posted the right fix. ps, still cant get over how helpful you are not alot of ppl like you out there ><
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    So I may just get a copy of windows 7 and try that on the 1tb. But I’m not 100% on what driver I will need to find. The ones I know are ... ATI Intel(R) Rapid Storage RealTek Sun java The ones i don’t know where to get would be the motherboard/chipset (from Intel I’m guessing) , cd-dvd drive...
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    well I'm at a loss with the flicker. i think I'm just going to have to live with it for now >< on a side note the cursor flicker issue right now i just have the ATI High Definition Audio disabled and that stops it just want to know if there was a new fix for that or is that still the way to do...
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    yes newest driver from ati 10.3 as for other drivers got the 3 you posted ati,intel rapid, realtek, bios from gateway. that's all that comes to mind. did i miss any big driver updates?
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    I'm running 9 GB of ram. i can’t see it being something in the background i have had this pc for 5 or 6 mouths with no issues. As for a reinstall I have done a clean reinstall, formatted the driver and use the restore CD, I also removed all the gateway stuff I think. Doing a new reinstall is...
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    Gateway FX 6800-01e BIOS Update from Gateway Unsupported

    Hey just an update and sorry for double posting. So I uninstalled the ATI driver and went to the safe remove hardware icon in the sys tray opened it and there was no more flicker, I restarted and reinstalled the ATI driver, rebooted and now the flicker is back. It looks like it has to do with...