I have an old memory card. It says PC100-322-620 -- I believe it's 128 K Went to this place I found in google: http://www.allmemoryupgrades.com/pc100sdram.html Have no clue whether this is for HP or Gateway? Free if you can use it. Judith Making the Complicated Simple! Learn how to turn your knowledge & expertise into cash http://www.agoodread.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <DeaconDeamon@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:25 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway Question 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------