aftrshock

Noel,

I believe it is a power issue, but not directly a power supply issue, seeing as how in my case, I hooked up a 450wt known working PSU that should put out way more than enough power, and still had an issue.

I believe the 610's were faulty pieces of garbage, as so many gateway products are.

Also, per my work on laptops, you actually draw less voltage when you have more memory -- reason being, less virtual memory (hdd space) being used, so less power goes to the harddrive for performing normal operations.

I don't recommend anyone without a lot of patience and documentation abilities and hopefully some experience attempt a teardown on these machines; it's a difficult one, filled with lots of wiring harnesses and cabling.

There appears to be no solid rhyme or reason; my unit already had the Rev 1 power supply, and I used multiple different supplies; never made a difference. I believe the inverter or screen was going out, and I'd be more likely to say the inverter. Keep in mind, with the screen on the dimmest setting, I got it to work just fine (for a while), but putting it up in brightness would almost always cause it to fritz.

My diagnosis: shoddy production and inferior support means the root cause of this issue will never be found. Could be wiring, could be damage by early revision PSU's, could be shoddy components elsewhere. If I were to be certain I fixed it, I would swap every part, minus the housing.

Again, multiple 'fixes' have worked for people. The woofer, for some, replacement PSU for some, external PSU for some, swapping out RAM for you... seems too randomized to just be one thing causing this issue.

Regards.