I purchased a Gateway GT5235E from a different place then right from Gateway and it seems to be a problem child. For that is all I had from day one. Below is the system.
Gateway Model Gt5235E Desk Top
AMD Athlon 64x2 processor 3800+ Dual-core 64 bit processor with AMD 64 Technology
2.0 GHz. 2x512 KB L2 cache. 2000MHz system Bus.
nVIDA GeForce 6100
UP to 128 MB of shared Video Memory
PCI Express slot available
Optical Drive DVD+/- RW multi-Format Double layer
Western Digital Hard Drive 200GB
Memory 1024 MB DDR2
Dual Channel
9-in-1 Memory card reader network +modem
10/100MBPS Ethernet LAN
56K itu V.92-Ready Fax Modem
Micro_Btx system design
Cpu 24-20424D00AB
Mother Board 1394 ID:0040CA070307591F
Mother board Model K2BC51G/PV this is what Gateway tell me but on the motherboard is K2BC51 LF
cpu fan speed 1099 RPM
From day one I had trouble first I had to replace the modem and the by Oct of last year the system stop working all I got was a black screen and the nothing. I was told by Gateway that the battery had gone out and to replace it I did by Nov. it stop working again and would not load anything. By the end of Dec I had gotten a reboot disk from Gateway ( none came with it ) By Jan 4 08 I was back up and using it only to have the system crash again on Jan 20,08 by Feb 3 I had it back running but not for long, It has done this now four more times and I was running it yesterday and it started to go that is only running now for three days before crashing.
When it crashes there is no way to reboot from recovery for it takes that file with it all I get after the system restarts is NTLF system missing.
There has to be a reason for this . The hard drive works fine in my old desk top. so I know it is not that. Thanks