Re: Gateway sonic something update degraded tv picture

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As mentioned in other postings here, apparently Gateway doesn't ship the
Sonic Encoders. Sounds like you may have a spyware or virus of some kind. I
suggest you try one of the antispyware programs to see if it can get rid of
the problem.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"xiowan" <xiowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5AB8D0A1-9F67-4445-860B-A1AA7110A42F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I recently had a window called Big Fix pop up on my computer saying I had
>an
> important upate from Gateway to my "Sonic Encoders". Ever since then my
> live
> tv picture displayed on my monitor has been a lot worse. I had the same
> problem when I got the computer and following the advice of members of
> this
> newsgroup, I installed an expensive graphics card and that helped a lot.
> Now I am back to where I started and have no idea what to do. Gateway
> won't
> help since I changed the hardware. If anyone can explain what I can do to
> fix the problem, I would sure appreciate the help.
> My computer stats are:
> Gateway 840 GM with Intel 945G Express Chipset, dual-core processor,
> 1 GB RAM, 250 GB SATA hard-drive, Windows Media Center operating system,
> integrated Intel graphics and ATI X800XL PCI Express 16 graphics card.


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