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After the initial Gateway screen goes off, the screen is very dim and a flashing “hyphen " is in the far upper left hand corner. Nothing else happens.
@mamabooski sounds like you are having issue with the OS not being found. Possibly caused by a bad hard drive. try and start your computer from a bootable CD. Try something like a Live Linux CD. See if you can access your BIOS:
To run the BIOS Setup Utility:
1 Turn on the notebook.
2 Press F2 when the Press