Yeah there was a lot of experimentation with PCs back then. This is a good example of it and I love it! Prayers for you doing better after your surgery.
NIce vidoe, as always. Ugh Toshiba Optical drives. They are notoriously loud from this era. The grease on the transport gears gets dried out and sticky and that causes the loud noise and the mechanism not to fully close. If you want to use it you can take it apart, clean it and reapply either super lube or silicon based grease and it will work good again. I also use molykote but I have found Super Lube to be better and easier to obtain since it is sold locally and on Amazon. But you probably already know all this.
Guessing that that motherboard on the Gateway is EDIT an ASTORIA motherboard. THIS MOTHERBOARD HAD AN ISSUE WHERE IT CAUSED THE POPPING IN AND OUT OF THE DVD AS SHOWN IN YOUR VIDEO. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION IS TO GO INTO BIOS AND ENABLE IDE SHARING. Play about in the BIOS. Also, try and get hold and reach out to a Gateway 2000:L3 technician who worked in gateway around 1998! This was a known issue with the Astoria Motherboard and MPAC DVD - DVD was in its early days then
The ZIP and the DVD drive RESOURCES have to be SHARED in the BIOS. There was an internal memo in gateway tech support on how to do this with the customer.
id do a restoration of this if i ever found one for sure & also give it a few 5.25 bigfoot tx hdd drives as additional storage ( 12.7gb models as cable select or raid configuration)
The Gateway 2000 logo looks very cool!
Yeah there was a lot of experimentation with PCs back then. This is a good example of it and I love it! Prayers for you doing better after your surgery.
Yep, definitely from right before they changed their name. I love how the POST splash screen even still shows the old Gateway 2000 logo...
OMG! I forgot how huge those desktop towers used to be
Ding ding ding sounded like Billy won the $10,000 Pyramid! LOL
Also reminds me of winning on The Price Is Right.
NIce vidoe, as always. Ugh Toshiba Optical drives. They are notoriously loud from this era. The grease on the transport gears gets dried out and sticky and that causes the loud noise and the mechanism not to fully close. If you want to use it you can take it apart, clean it and reapply either super lube or silicon based grease and it will work good again. I also use molykote but I have found Super Lube to be better and easier to obtain since it is sold locally and on Amazon. But you probably already know all this.
Great video!
Guessing that that motherboard on the Gateway is EDIT an ASTORIA motherboard. THIS MOTHERBOARD HAD AN ISSUE WHERE IT CAUSED THE POPPING IN AND OUT OF THE DVD AS SHOWN IN YOUR VIDEO. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION IS TO GO INTO BIOS AND ENABLE IDE SHARING. Play about in the BIOS. Also, try and get hold and reach out to a Gateway 2000:L3 technician who worked in gateway around 1998! This was a known issue with the Astoria Motherboard and MPAC DVD - DVD was in its early days then
The ZIP and the DVD drive RESOURCES have to be SHARED in the BIOS. There was an internal memo in gateway tech support on how to do this with the customer.
id do a restoration of this if i ever found one for sure & also give it a few 5.25 bigfoot tx hdd drives as additional storage ( 12.7gb models as cable select or raid configuration)
So Big PC Case!
Cool computer I want one too.
I think that video card is a Riva 128. I had one long ago and it had that same heat sink on it.
Any interest in a G6-300XL or anyone for that matter?
Runtime error 103 could mean a missing driver.
👋👋👋☺️ hello Billy
First on me.
That's great, but I sure don't care!