sklaz

again that's what sucks is even if i hit F12 and try a PXE boot or something, nothing happens once it goes to the blank screen. I've tried prepping bios flash boot cds, memtest cds, booting off a vista install disk, usb boot drives with dos on them, its like it just stops before even trying to boot any device.

the harddrive light stays on as well which it didn't before. but again ive stripped it down to bare bones and ram, then added the drive etc back in and no change. the bios picks up all my cd/hdd/usb devices when i add them.

it is a extremely unusual and frustrating problem, aggravated by gateway's ridiculous policies not providing any kind of support and having a terrible knowledgebase on their site that doesnt even cover anything bios related. thanks for your ongoing suggestions!