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Screen has gone. find a stand alone screen and use the VGA plug.Once connected, hold down the Fn button on the computer keyboard and press F3 once or twice and your computer with show on the spare screen. Repair will be about 200 quid.
Your operating system shouldn't need a new driver for that. CD drives are recognized configured automatically. You can try cleaning the laser lens on the CD Drive with a CD/DVD laser lens cleaning kit. If that doesn't work then you'll need to replace the drive.
Have you received Windows 7 installed at the time of purchase? If not, check the compatibility with Windows 7. Check your Ethernet adapter with LAN for its proper functioning. Try using latest driver for Ethernet adapter from the laptop manufacturer. If the adapter is OK, restore the system to previous date on which it used to work or reinstall the operating system as a last resort.
Unfortunately there isnt much you can do, the only real solution that has ever been known to work is to completely drain the battery (I mean keep trying to turn it on even after its died, many many times) and then put in on charge for 8hrs.
Other than that, regardless of what people say, there isnt much else you can do. And I wouldnt put too much faith in any tests these techs have run, its almost impossible to really see what state the battery cells are in.
For future reference, when you are using your laptop plugged into the mains, take the battery out, that wil help prolong its life, and never let it get too hot or charge it longer than it needs (can bend the cell walls)
I would suspect a bad connection on the motherboard since you say your battery is OK--I take it to mean that your computer runs when plugged in or on battery. Try this: Leave the charger plugged into the computer and unplug it from the wall. Then plug it back in. Do you have the same problem? If not, then it's the physical act of plugging the plug into the machine that is causing the problem and that would be causing some kind of contact problem on the motherboard.
your battery has just gone to junk, you will just have to use your power cable, until you are able to buy a new battery. Your lucky though my battery kept crashing my laptop. I just had to remove the battery completely and keep use the power cable to get it to work.
you can order battery from gateway, or go to newegg.com or ebay.com or any other place you want to.
I have a new gateway laptop with windows 7 and today it said plugged in not charging 8%. I tried everything and nothing worked so I turned it off and unplugged it and took the battery out and put it back in and it started charging...hopefully this works.
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