The Thursday Post
Hey remember me, long time no chat. lol.
I have had what you’d call an excrutiating experience with Gateway tech support. I bought that cheap Portable Media Drive 160GB at Circuit City for my Quad Core gateway PC. The Gateway PC has a Portable Media Drive bay, so I thought great, I don’t have to plug something else in and it’s good to go. Except when I put it in the drive bay, I got the red power light but no blue activity light and my PC wouldn’t recognize the drive.
So then I try Gateway online chat, with such gems as:
“You can’t use an optical drive in the drive slot” (hey asshat, it’s not an optical drive)
“You can’t make an external drive an internal one” (so why is there a slot for a Portable Media drive, idiot)
“That drive is incompatible with your PC” (not true).
So, basically I take the PC apart, and find out that the drive slot is merely a USB and power holder. You slide the drive in and there’s a USB cable it plugs into as well as a power cable. The USB cable goes directly to the motherboard. Obviously the power works. I still can’t get the damn drive to work that way (it works fine with the USB cable as a traditional external drive). If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. They can’t be any worse then the “support” from Gateway.
In other news, I’ve been assigned Time Crisis 4 for review. Yes the game is $90, and yes, the LED sensors are much better than the PS2 Guncon and rather Wii-like, but the game sure is fun…and looks gorgeous. I feel bad for the suckers that bought a 40GB PS 2 though…because you need 3 USB ports to play with two guns. Ooops! Guess you should have bought the one with 4 ports. (Of course, I believe you’ll be ok with a USB hub, but I just wanted to rub it in).
Okay, gotta do the triple S before work.