On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, "James Matthews" <> wrote:
>Please provide somemore info try to use http://housecall.antivirus.com
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Thanks for your reply, and also the other two gentlemen who replied
so promptly.
The problem went from bad to worse, so the Gateway tech said to take
it to our local Best Buy, which we did yesterday. Since it is a
brand new computer, and as of yesterday wouldn't even boot up in safe
mode any more, they thought it is probably some sort of catastrophic
hardware failure, bad hard disk, or maybe a bad mother board.
They promised to fix it, or replace the whole box with a new one, if
necessary. It's my daughter's first computer. She cried when it
stopped working. I felt so bad, so I thought I'd ask around here for
some expert help, before calling Gateway's tech support, and getting
transferred to some third world trainee who speaks broken English.
But Gateway's tech support was surprisingly helpful. Hopefully,
this problem will never crop up again.
Kenny