Done with GateWay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[athlonrulz]

Recently ordered a Gateway computer for wife.......just wanted it for web surfing......all I can say about it is...It is done for......In know way could I have voided the warranty more than I just did. this is the system specs...........

Athlon 1.2 T-bird
MSI MS-6389
PSU 200 watt----sick
128 sdram
nec burner
20 gig ata 100@5200
Integrated 32mb Savage pro video
Integrated sound(not sure what it is, but know for sure it sucks)
I need to not go on about specs, I think ya get the point.........


System after about 12 hours.........................


Athlon 1.2 @ 1.4(266)
400 watt psu
Abit raid mobo
512 ddr crucial
52x cdrom by delta
NEC_7700A burner
round ide cables
60 gig maxtor@7200 ata 133
sound blaster live plat
voodoo 5500 agp

Should I have done this or not?

At least now I got one worth paying for...........................

[MrOOBiLL]

LOL, you keep the case? :0

[mw521]

At least keep the cables!:beer:

[Jeff Bolton]

sounds like the case was the only thing that stayed the same. :beer: good job though!

jeff

[Yodums]

If its one thing you did right its switching from a branded computers. Now you can sell those damn products away thats lying around collecting dust.

[athlonrulz]

h e double hockey sticks no, didnt keep the case, it was a micro atx case (ick) .........................using a Q4 full tower

[athlonrulz]

Even before I changed everything....I was going to flash the bios to accept a faster proc..guess what, there is no bios update for that board or anything of that nature. Gateway said the board was manufactured by Keystone(ever heard of them) I havent. But on the board itself, it clearly says, MS-6389.....did a search, and the board is MSI. Gateway also, apparently when they buy these boards off of who ever it is they buy them off of, they take and put there own bios's in them, I ran a program called ambid or something, to give me the name and all that info about the bios. it said that I had to contact gateway. That it had a Gateway bios in it...........boy......I bet that was a nice bios. bios was by AMI, and I bet if you looked at the bios, in about 5 seconds, you would have seen every setting in there......lol

[Robbie]

Sorry to say man but you totally voided the warrenty. Nice system though.

Rob

[athlonrulz]

Ill throw a few of your words back at ya.......sorry to say, but I wanted to void the warranty, otherwise what the heck was I going to pay $1800 for..............lol............that sys was just SICK

[athlonrulz]

I strongly believe that women are equal to men:rolleyes: LOL whatever......J/K.....but.....not to bad of a system for my wife.......:cool: hope my wife dont read this post, or ill be :eek: when she busts me a good one

[nohoy]

im pretty sure i voided my gateway warranty when i upgraded the ram. so then id have to say that you may have possibly done so as well. and you get a monitor as well.

so you make out with monitor, cables, case, the gateway name, and a cute little worthless cow box. i salute you. (you bought it for the cow box didnt you)

[mbigna]

I will never buy Gateway again myself. I was trying to upgrade my mom's old PC from Win95 to Win98 because of some instability she was beginning to have on the system. That didn't work, so I tried WinME. Again, no dice. The problem was with the integrated video. Gateway did not have any updated drivers for the board and simply would not support the system with anything other than Win95. So I scrapped/stripped the system and built her a T-Bird 1.4 on an Asus DDR mobo and a gForce2MX video card (and I bought her a new monitor to boot!).

She's very happy now...

...and I have some more used parts.

[Randy]

Originally posted by athlonrulz
Recently ordered a Gateway computer for wife.......just wanted it for web surfing......all I can say about it is...It is done for......In know way could I have voided the warranty more than I just did. this is the system specs...........

Athlon 1.2 T-bird
MSI MS-6389
PSU 200 watt----sick
128 sdram
nec burner
20 gig ata 100@5200
Integrated 32mb Savage pro video
Integrated sound(not sure what it is, but know for sure it sucks)
I need to not go on about specs, I think ya get the point.........


System after about 12 hours.........................


Athlon 1.2 @ 1.4(266)
400 watt psu
Abit raid mobo
512 ddr crucial
52x cdrom by delta
NEC_7700A burner
round ide cables
60 gig maxtor@7200 ata 133
sound blaster live plat
voodoo 5500 agp

Should I have done this or not?

At least now I got one worth paying for...........................


I have one question, if you did all that upgrading after shelling out big money for that Gateway, why didn't you just build a system from scratch in the first place?? Not trying to be a smart a** but that seems like an awful lot to spend on a monitor. Hopefully thats a big monitor:)
Randy

[athlonrulz]

Yes I totally agree with ya, and I need smacked in the back of the head for that too...........................17 in mon.....16 viewable

[nil_esh]

Originally posted by athlonrulz
Athlon 1.2 T-bird
MSI MS-6389
PSU 200 watt----sick


I bought a used P2 266 Gateway for like $25. I gutted the 200 watt PSU for its fan and tossed it aside. But 200 watt for an Athlon system?!? Damn.. What were they thinking?

You did the right thing...

Though I would've ordered from Micron instead.

[Newbie_Doo]

Originally posted by nil_esh


I bought a used P2 266 Gateway for like $25. I gutted the 200 watt PSU for its fan and tossed it aside. But 200 watt for an Athlon system?!? Damn.. What were they thinking?

You did the right thing...

Though I would've ordered from Micron instead.

It gets better. They use a 145Watt PSU for their P3 and Celeron systems.

Moved to General Hardware

[Breadfan]

My friend todd had an old pII 266 system, I tried to upgrade to WinMe on it for him, and it'd load up, then when it rebooted it would search for the gateway restore cd...damn bios.

I learned quick that Gateway has their own bios's. You can't upgrade the OS on them...alteanst not from a fresh format, and with windows why would you bother doing it any other way?

The reason the bios is locked out is becuase they have everything working so that its somewhat stable...you change one setting and throw the balance off and live with bsod's the rest of your life, lol. I bet they've got special memory "tweaks" to give EXTRA latency...even more than the stock bios!

For the price they sell things and what you get, its highway robbery.

I do have to agree with an earlier post though, rathaer than upgrade like that, why not just return the gateway, get your money back, and build one from scratch. Or does gateway not allow returns?

Oh well, whats done is done...good way to void the warrantey though! Keep the gateway floppy in it, and try and send it back for support, LOL

Mike

[stompah]

Originally posted by Newbie_Doo


It gets better. They use a 145Watt PSU for their P3 and Celeron systems.


I can beat that... my HP system w/600celly has a 100 watt PSU

[turd]

hey just wondering, that voodoo did you do anything with the stock fans/heatsink?