Here is another really good reason for Gateway to go bankrupt:
I have a client who bought two Gateway GM5643E machines (Core2 Quad, etc). They both came loaded with 3gb of PC2-5300 memory, 1066 FSB.
Both machines had Vista Home Premium installed, and neither could get out of its own way. I gave both machines a complete enema, and installed the customers XP Pro on both.
Here is the shameful part: one of the motherboards died on January 15. I told the customer to contact Gateway for a warranty replacement. Gateway took 60 days to replace the motherboard, and also wiped the customer disk clean and reinstalled Vista.
Gateway destroyed *ALL* the customer's data, setup, etc, so they could reinstall Vista. Shame, shame, shame. I had the system fully imaged, so restoring back to XP was a breeze. We did a data restore from backup, and that all came back... but the potential for loss was very high.
I have a client who bought two Gateway GM5643E machines (Core2 Quad, etc). They both came loaded with 3gb of PC2-5300 memory, 1066 FSB.
Both machines had Vista Home Premium installed, and neither could get out of its own way. I gave both machines a complete enema, and installed the customers XP Pro on both.
Here is the shameful part: one of the motherboards died on January 15. I told the customer to contact Gateway for a warranty replacement. Gateway took 60 days to replace the motherboard, and also wiped the customer disk clean and reinstalled Vista.
Gateway destroyed *ALL* the customer's data, setup, etc, so they could reinstall Vista. Shame, shame, shame. I had the system fully imaged, so restoring back to XP was a breeze. We did a data restore from backup, and that all came back... but the potential for loss was very high.
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