Failed to Connect -- Vista Problems

[Motenai_Ronin]

Gateway isn't a very reliable computer manufacturer either. Have you checked your connections / isp / any hardware you use to surf the web

Any firewalls you configure to allow things access to the web.

Networking is a very complicated bit of business there.

Wade through it and maybe months down the road everything will be fine.

(Unless you really do decide to chuck that gateway against some wall - in which case I'd recommend upgrading to at least a Dell, preferably a XPS / Alienware or a Vaio, hell even Toshiba is pretty spiffy now with their new 4 speaker laptop - avoid HP like the plague, never know if they fixed that overheating issue with their laptops)