-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway Question

  • From: DeaconDeamon@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:25:18 +0000

Hi Don
 Your right it's a Gateway thing with the ram.
Like I told G, I'm not going to sink a lot of money into this. I'll use it for 
know as it's faster then the one I was using. ( see my reply to G)
  My income is very limited, and I don't use credit cards, I get in trouble 
with them, So my plan is to use this machine for a couple three months till I 
can put away enough to pick up a new machine.
Thanks for the info. Walmart is where I was pricing them. 
Steve
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx> 

> I thought dinosaurs were extinct. :-)) 
> 
> If you have a hard drive laying around collecting dust go ahead and use it. 
> 4500, 5400 or 7200 should not matter... but then I would have said the same 
> about using PC600 memory to save a few bucks over the PC800. It must be a 
> Gateway thing. 
> 
> If you have to buy a hard drive, a new one will cost more than the computer 
> is worth, so look around for a used one somewhere. I used to have 3 or 4 
> 20-40 GB drives laying around and I'm sure others still do. 
> 
> I looked at a few memory sites... one said your computer had 2 banks of 2 
> slots each (mount sticks in pairs only) and another said it was 4 banks of 1 
> slot each (mount sticks individually). Either way you are looking at around 
> $75 to 125 for a gigabyte of RAM. 
> 
> Apparently the Gateway uses Rambus memory sticks. If I recall correctly, 
> that was a very short lived technology so the RAM will be in short supply 
> and higher priced. (Compare to a little over $100 to add 2 GB to my Dell) 
> 
> Wal*Mart is now selling an e-machines computer with Win XP Home, 2.xGHz 
> processor, DVD Super Drive and 512MB of RAM (RAM might be 1GB, but I don't 
> think so). Price: $298.00 
> 
> So don't waste a lot of money on RAM or a hard drive unless you just want 
> the experience of working on and upgrading an old computer. 
> 
> Don 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:52 PM 
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Gateway Question 
> 
> 
> >I was given an old gateway as payment for fixing a computer for a friend of 
> >my landlord. 
> > 
> > It's a E Series 5400. 966MHz CPU and 256mb Of ram. 10 gig hard drive 
> > running XP Home /SP2. 
> > 
> > I let both Crucial and Memory4all scan the computer to see what memory 
> > upgrade is available. as told by both sites that this computer MUST have 
> > the correct PC800 to work. Crucial did not show any and memory4all 
> > showed only 512mb sticks for 199 USD. At that price I'm going to stay 
> > with the 256 for awhile. 
> > 
> > I would like to put a different hard drive in, 10 gigs is just a little 
> > to small. The hard drive in it is a Quantum Fireball EX 10.2 A. It has 
> > 5400RPM. My question is do I need to use another 5400RPM or can I use a 
> > 7200? 
> > 
> > A little long winded but I wanted to explain things. 
> > 
> > Steve 
> > 
> > 
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