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Gateway E 4200 freezes at boot logo
Name: ccamio Date: November 28, 2008 at 07:12:32 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Pentium III 500 MHz/128 M Product: Gateway E 4200
Comment:
A Gateway E 4200 freezes at boot logo, showing the word "Gateway" and no keyboard response. It was unable to enter BIOS setup. Solution: change keyboard for other manufacturer. The PS/2 keyboards maded by DTK do not work with this Gateway computer. The PC works fine with no-brand PS/2 keyboard.
Another tip: while installing XP, the installation freezes at 60% copying files. We need to open the case and cooling the CPU with a large fan during installation. Then, the PC works OK.
Hope this help someone, I was spend many hours trying to fix this problem. Changing keyboard! :-)
Name: Cobra_R Date: November 29, 2008 at 01:37:17 Pacific
Reply:
Had a problem like this with a gateway gt4016 series the problem was the secondary hard drive the person had in his pc was causing the freeze. so once i took it out it booted right up again. Later test showed the secondary hard drive was going bad with many dameged sectors.
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