Weird problem: A friend of mine recently did a system recovery for his Gateway 3040GZ (windows xp) and I'm not sure why or how he arrived at this point but he deleted the C: partition...so with the hard drive completely wiped out I advised him to insert the system recovery discs he made when he first purchased the notebook and boot from CD. This went fine, and the notebook ran once again but obviously without anything installed except basic windows components and generic drivers that weren't exactly right. So we went to support.gateway and got all the right drivers (after installing McAffee and turning on the firewall, etc., of course) and now the thing runs like a champ. Better than before, even, because all the useless factory installed programs are gone and we only got back the ones we needed.
Here is the one, small, but absolutely annoying issue: when you point the cursor in a text box online or anywhere in windows (word is actually not affected by this issue at all) you don't see the skinny "I" shaped, blinking text cursor. You get a large black box that is annoying and makes it difficult to type and highlight and really hard to just put the cursor right between two non-spaced characters. Also, when you highlight text in these scenarios, the highlight color is blue, not the usual black. I'm staring at this awful blinking black box (say that three times fast) right now, please help!
So far from Googling this around I have found the following suggestions, to no avail: change the settings in the mouse settings under "pointers" (I have a synaptics touchpad v5.9 and none of the settings apply to this or have any effect), hit the "insert key" because you're in overwrite mode (I'm not, and I think that applies to word anyway...the one place I don't have this problem), and do a system recovery, which has already been done. The keyboard driver is a "Standard 101/102 key or microsoft natural PS/2/Keyboard" and this is one of the drivers installed during the recovery. Gateway lists no keyboard driver for this laptop model and I have a feeling that the one he has on here is wrong or doesn't need to be here at all (can the synaptics driver "drive" both the mouse and keyboard?). I ran the driver guide toolkit and it didn't even detect the keyboard driver. Tried uninstalling said driver but it was reinstalled automatically. Please help!























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