Hey Guys. recently ran into a major hard drive issue on a tower im attempting to refresh and give to my grandmother to tool around on. Gateway screen pops up, i cannot access BIOS or ANYTHING else.....computer just beeps almost immediately and gives the following message...

" A problem with the hard drive has been detected. Consult the troubleshooting section of your users manual. Hit enter to continue"

After hitting enter I get a small gatway logo in the top left of the screen and the following directions over the logo

"Press <F4> to Resume"

This does nothing. I've tried restarting and using R, S, F, every single F button and cannot seem to bypass this to get into to the BIOS to change the computer to boot from the recovery disk. HELP!!!

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"I can't really hear what Jeremy says, because I got my two Stanley Cup Rings plugging my ears...." -Patrick Roy in reference to Jeremy Roenick's trash talking

do you have another drive you can swap with the alleged "bad" one?

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Unplug the hard drive and see if you can get into the bios. Or put in a bootable CD without a hard drive in...the machine should default to the next bootable option or prompt you to go into the BIOS settings.

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X I do not have a drive, I have tried unplugging the ribbon and power to the hard drive and its still goes through the setup and looks for an install and the hard drive

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"I can't really hear what Jeremy says, because I got my two Stanley Cup Rings plugging my ears...." -Patrick Roy in reference to Jeremy Roenick's trash talking

yeah, try what NYI said...do you have a bootable CD (windows installation or otherwise) and a CD-ROM drive plugged in?

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I'm no computer genius, but I can build them and what not. I think that hard drive is bad, and I suggest you buy a working one(computer) off craigslist for $50(the same you'd pay for a new HD). Save you a lot of headache. Believe me, I know. It's what I do with my parents when they have computer trouble.

You said you tried the 'F' keys...did you try 'ESC', 'Space' or 'Enter'?

Everything I read said that gateways always use F1 or F2. Are you using a USB keyboard? If so, does the computer have a PS2 connector (I'm assuming it does if it's old)? You may HAVE to use a PS2 keyboard in order for the motherboard to accept any inputs.

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That right there is an excellent point....

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