> From: Kevin L. Crawford [mailto:Lyrnia@...]
> Well EV... if you want to upgrade your system you may be
> better off doing
> the processor and memory only at this point. Question is:
Yeah, I might. There are more things to consider than I mentioned. (eg I
need more DASD again, all my apps are out of date, the 64 MB of RAM fills
all the slots, my BF would nag me less if I gave him my current PC & got him
hooked on EQ, it's a mini-tower and not every motherboard will physically
fit in it (though I'm not sure how much of a problem that is anymore), I
should really replace the winmodem, and the list goes on.
> Sounds like your friends didn't know what they were talking
> about. Gateway
> doesn't mix/match motherboards. They have 1 motherboard for
> one chip type
> (Pentium) and another for Athlons (you have to, they're not
> compatible)
> Generally speaking, up to about a year ago, Gateway shipped
> 90% of systems
> with the 440BX (argueably the best chipset ever) board from
> Intel (if you
> overclock it it IS the best board out and can use 133mhz SDRAM on it).
> They had a couple other boards that shipped with E-Series
> (IE: Business)
> systems but the customer systems were all shipped based on
> 440 BX boards.
I should point out that my experience with Gateways desktops has been with
the P series (which I can't recall having troubles with) G-200s (which came
with different video cards, NICs, and memory, if not motherboards) and the E
series. Portables were Solo 2000s, 2100s, 2300s, and 2500. The different
components in the desktops caused problems with drivers when trying to use
one image on every PC in a company. The portables were just plain crap.
I guess I shouldn't say that about the portables. Perhaps I just saw all
the lemons Gateway put out, but odds were you'd be replacing parts inside a
year and your replacement parts had as much chance of working as Lullaby has
of controlling a train of blue mobs. Although the failure rate on
replacement parts may have been the fault of Unisys (contracted for hardware
replacement) and not Gateway. Still, Unisys didn't come into the picture
until the Solos themselves started breaking down.
> At any rate, nice system. But you got lied to about Gateway
> ;) (I should
> know. I work at a Gateway Manufacturing center as a
> contracted Network
> Engineer)
Guess we should be careful what companies we slag off, eh? ;^)
Kevin, I've got no doubts you know more about hardware than I do, but I take
nothing back. I've had a worse experience supporting Gateway hardware than
I have had with any other manufacturer.
Peace
Evulia