I thought this would have something to do with womp rats.
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Oh, lol. It is a <i>Star Wars</i> reference: <i>"I used to bullseye womp rats in a T-16 back home."</i> The T-16 was some form of landspeeder/airspeeder thingumie. A real Star Wars fan could probably tell you more. 
Well you can download the User Guide here
http://support.gateway.com/product/default.aspx?modelId=2390
As for the Bluetooth Connection I would hazard a guess that as it's not supposed to be there, someone has replaced the M'Board with a different one and it has the ability to have Bluetooth, or that while the connector is present the rest of the required Electronics are not.
Many times different M'Board Makers remove stuff off different models of M'Board. Thus they have the one basic M'Board which covers several different Models with different abilities. While I do not play with Off the Shelf NB often with some of the cheaper nasty Desktop M'Boards they have the connectors which are fitted by a different Robot but do not have the necessary Electronics which are fitted by a different type of Robot. The plugs are just literally stuck into the M'Board wile the Electronics get glued first and then Ultravioletly Soldered after the Assembly is complete. So if Gateway bought this M'Board from a company who had the ability to have a internal Bluetooth Module the Socket and Screen printing would be present but it wouldn't do anything if you where to plug something into it.
Or conversely if the M'Board has been changed you would need to read the Model of it off the Screen Printed Circuit Board and then go looking for it's maker if there is no makers name Screen Printed to the Circuit Board.
Incidentally Gateway is a purchaser of Components and they pay another company to build computers to their Specifications/Costs. They do not actually make the Individual Internal Components. If you looked at the Internals you should have seen Gateway Stickers but also on the HDD and other components like that the actual Makers Sticker. Gateway didn't make the M'Board at the most they would have had it made to their specifications for them by a company like ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, BENQ, Clevo or any of the other NB M'Board Makers.
Also as for the speaker you fitted I hope it was a Magnetically Shielded unit or Magnetic Fields will eventually adversely affect the correct function of the Notebook. 
Col
Sorry but at the moment I can not reply to anything on TR
That Temp is OK for any CPU
I always supply a Cool Pad like the one shown here when I sell a NB to any client
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NzI=
They do several things but the most important is to suck the air born crud away from the Air Intakes of the NB and prevent it from clogging the Airways and Heatsink of the CPU and prevent anything from blocking the air intakes of the NB.
You can get cheaper ones than the Antec devices on places like E Bay and I have yet to have any serious failure when these things are used. The worst failure that any NB that I've sold has experienced was a broken Flexible Data Lead in a Optical Drive under the Tray which required the Optical Drive to be replaced. Took about 10 minutes and was under $100.00 to completely repair.
Increasing or changing the CPU isn't the most cost effective way to speed things up the best thing you can do to increase performance is to install as Much RAM as the Unit will hold or if you are using a 32 Bit OS 4 GIG of RAM. This will improve performance dramatically with no other change.
As for the CPU all I can suggest is to Suck it and See it may work and it may not as the complete lack of Information on that Particular M'Board that I can find tells me nothing about it's capabilities or what it can use.
As for needing to do anything to the installed OS provided you have not changed more than 3 components you do not need to Reactivate Windows.
Col
a few questions about my t-16?
now i want to know what some of these buttons are for, i got no manual with the laptop, and they confuse me since they are there but they dont do anything.
the first is one between the media button bar and the power button, it has an arrow pointing towards the media buttons on it, and it does nothing while the laptop is on, but it will bring it out of sleep mode. what does it do? is it configurable?
next up is two buttons in the media button bar.
one is a music symbol, and the other is the "dvd" logo.
they do absolutely nothing whether the laptop is on, off or in sleep mode.
are they configurable? is there special software that communicates wth them?
next up is the cpu, its a 1.9GHz AMD turion 64 X2, which is at 48*c as im typing this.
i have a 1.9GHz athlon 64 X2, from another laptop, would it be beneficial to the laptop in regards to the temperature? would it perform worse or better?
then the wireless, the realtek card shuts off whenever i plug in a flash drive, but only when i plug in a flash drive, if i put in a sd card, it doesnt, if i plug in a game controller, still, it doesnt.
only when i plug in a flash drive, but why? is it because its using the windows-detected drivers?
last is the bluetooth.
i contacted the people over at gateway and asked them about bluetooth and my laptop, and basically they told me there was no way my laptop would ever have internal bluetooth capability.
but, when i had my laptop apart to install a better bass speaker (yes, im sorry but i have a very bad habit for taking my laptops apart, luckily it still works)
and thats when i noticed that, on the other side of the board, about the area of the hard drive connection, there was a small (ish) white connector, and on the board right beside it, was written "bluetooth".
i contacted gateway again and basically this time they told me i wasnt seeing what i thought i was and the connector didnt exist. but i know its there.
why would gateway tell me its not there if it is? do they even know their own laptop?
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