any one here have a clue on how much a new mother bord with p4 chip 2ghz that has 4 pci slots will run me plus 1000mb ddr ram i think its ddr the new stuff do they make mother bords with 4 slots for pci? i wouldnt even bother to upgrade but my darn mother bord only holds two pci cards it sucks cause i need 4 availiable slots
Hi Blaze I have a little side-note: If I remember me well: you have a Gateway computer. Am I right? It could be that a standard motherboard doesn't fit in your PC. I really hope that I am wrong here, but I would advice to try to get info whether such a motherboard, that does not come from Gateway, will fit in your machine. I hope that there are users who can tell you more about this topic.
Blaze - something to consider: if you change the motherboard in your Gateway (assuming that's what you've got) you will no longer be able to install the OS and software from your restore disk(s) and, technically, it would be a violation of your EULA to operate the system at all with a new board and the Gateway-supplied OS. Have you tried checking with Gateway to see what they offer? If you can get the board through them, this could resolve the OS issue.
wha ok yup my pc is a gate way but its not in its standard box its in a huge boxwith 4 cd rom slots and like 8 slots in back for pci extentions lol i dont think room is an issue here lol lets see as for the os disk i use the xp os single disk and none of the other stuff on the other 4 or 5 cd's except for the modem driver on the drivers disk and thats it. so if the gateway disk says operating disk only plus i know where the xp set up is inside the disk you telling me it wont work on a new mother bord. well lets see the gateway is mine the cd's are mine yet you telling me i can't upgrade cause gate way some mofos that screw me on 23% intrest plus didnt tell me about the pc limitations nore told me it didnt come with the following graphics card room to expand room to upgrade a sound card the actual amount of ram to run norton and gateway utlity it came with told me this the pc i needed nore did they tell me that if the gateway cd's go bad with scratchs im screwed cause they wont replace the cds and yiu need the cd's to run gateway pc period or maybe that the gateway mother bord needs gateway specific hardware or that i couldnt replace the power supply cause it was soldererd on and the only one that could replace it was gateway that everything in gateway pc's to repair must go threw gateway so they can charge you 100 bucks an hour or something like that basicly any standard pc stuff to repair you just couldnt take it in to any pc shop and what eula they never told me squat as far as im concern from what they did to me and how much i over payed almost 3x the amount its worth frail them i owen it i bought it lol i should be able to do what i want with it everything on this gateway has already been replace with standard stuff just the motherbord left basicly dont buy a gate way there cheaters liers they basicly con men or really bad deallers there should be a lemon law on pc's if your going to buy a pc have one made for your specfic needs with standard parts so things can be upgraded make sure the following graphics card room to expand room to upgrade a sound card the actual amount of ram to run norton so can i or cant i get a new motherbord if so back to the question lol? ps the xp cd at stores is perty cheap anyway but if i can get alway with useing the xp os cd id rather perfer it save me the 40 bucks lol
