Edit: in norway at all Child schools we have school bands, and each half A year we have something called "loppemarked" were we sell all kinds of stuff. And once we got in a computer which was working, and with almost no personal files on it, but the previuos owner had managed to leave A cd in the cd-rom drive with personal pictures on it!!
Our school districts still use some of the older versions of these BTX Gateway PCs, although the ones that they are using are the P4 HT 3.20 GHz systems. They are fast systems on Windows XP (I should rephrase, SCREAMERS) but are kinda sluggish on Windows 7, due to the fact that some of the idiots that work in our school district's tech department put x64 copies of Windows 7 on some of those machines with only 1 GB of memory. One of them is running a Dell install of Windows 7. But they aren't bad
I also can say around me no one throws them away. They now take them to Best Buy and get a $10 for each computer sometimes even more if it a newer . I found it about a few months ago. I took my old pile from 1990 well broken beyond repair . I also strip them for any good parts.
I do have that very same Gateway computer form factor and I am looking to get it going again for modern era however I am unfamiliar with what parts work what parts don't.
It's weird how some Gateways of this era had the image in the recovery partition, and you had to create backup CDs, and other had the recovery image that you had to complete with the included CDs. I guess MCE was a bigger image than regular XP, although not really by that much. My 3522GZ had the full recovery image on the drive.
I have this exact computer sitting next to my desk unused. The USB ports haven't worked since at least 2007 (not a driver issue, something is just borked to where USB doesn't work at all), and I suspect there are bad caps. I'm only keeping it around because there are lots of memories on that computer I don't want to let go. Maybe I'll try to fix it and get it back up and running one of these days.
The later installs of Windows XP (after SP2) do not state the specific edition on startup. Also, I had a Gateway from around that era. Same config, too. But all the caps were blown. All of them. The motherboard was trashed.
I agree with TheSoxmania: get that Bestec PSU out! But, at this point, try experimenting with Windows 8 on that PC for starters (to see if you like Windows 8). If not, it could theoretically be a great little internet browsing PC with Windows or Linux 64-Bit. My ideas
I can beat that, used to have an MSI gaming rig with a geForce3 TI GPU and 512MB of RAM, well, the power supply I bought for this $900 (at the time) rig was a 450W Bestec PSU, I got it for $24.99 and after about 9 months, the standby rail went open circuit and lobbed 240 volts right through it, every little part of the system was fried, had to spend $700 on a low end rig. decided not to get another bestec PSU and went for a Delta 268.9W power supply which is still working now with no issues
you might wanna change that psu, Bestec are known for bad standby rails that blow components out, due to the design, the standby rail fails after a few years and this causes a spike that ranfes from 12 to 24 volts, the original rail voltage, as you most certainly will know, having a strong knowledge on computers, is 5 volts, but even a cheap power supply is safer than that bestec that's currently in that system, in fact, 98 of mobo failures were due to those Power supplies!!
I can remember I worked on a machine when I worked for NCR . They had the contract for Gateway and dell and there laptops. Back then a Gateway had some nice laptops. I had to keep a log of all those machine I worked on. For that machine it was the power supply and keyboard. I never seen the Belkin wireless n in those 2 I worked on .. They had a Gateway wireless G card . Give me the complete models and serial I still have the repair books and a lot of parts.
dang nice find. around here its not common to find stuff just trashed its mostly recycled for free through some computer recycle store or some thrift store. i wish i had a pci wireless n card with the 3 antennas but alas i dont oh well. but u got lucky none the less
yh, I replace the PSUs if they're bestec, especially the ATX250 series, My school has also done as I advised, all the old machines they had with that model PSU had a corsair 250W PSU installed, I had a stockpile of them that I sold off in bulk for somewhere in the reigion of £199.95 for 30 PSUs, Cheapest buy they had!!
i have that exact same pc as that one, just without any bad caps (i checked) it has a 2.2ghz amd athlon 64 single core socket 939, 1gb of ram, 200gb hdd, nvidia geforce 6100 on board graphics.
when did you say this pc was made? the win vista era? sata was fairly common back then man. My computer is from 2005 and it has sata, and most of my lga 775 p4 computers are sata sorry for spam lol
i wish i could get winxp media center edition. the dell optiplex 330 i have had messed up usb. they stoped working when os booted. worked in bios and stuff. had to reinstall and update chipset driver. my computers don't even have firewire. my laptop has mini firewire think it is though.
what i did before i sold my old pc i wiped the hdd and then recoverd windows of the partition. i have the same computer and i sold it on ebay for 60 bucks
Gateway bought out Emachines and somewhere around late 2007, Gateway and Emachines bought out Acer! plus i have a similar Gateway but it's a GT5056 but it still works and i still have tha official disc 4 it! but if i could i could find a extra one and then send it 2 u if u would like and it can go all tha way up 2 4gb of DDR1 ram which i have on mine! i just use it 4 older games! i wanna find a Quadro 2000 4 it and i had replaced tha PSU several times! currently have a 600w Thermaltake on it but plan 2 put a EVGA PSU on it
I have a dell xps 400 that uses btx, it has 4gb ram, intel 2.8ghz pentium d, ati HD5770, and two 160gb sata hdd's I got it as part trade for a GTX 480, it came to me with 1gb ram and ati x300.
That looks like the exact pc I have but myne has a intel motherboard with a pentium D 2.8Ghz and it came with windows xp 32 but I up windows 7 64 on it. came with 1gb ddr2 has 4gb ddr2 now. none of the caps are bad and its been on almost 24/7 since like 2005 lol. Extra 500gb sata hdd, upgraded to 500W psu with one I had laying around. an ATI 5670 1gb its small 1 slot card to fit in the stupid btx form factor. extra x-fi sound card becuase the mobo audio SUCKS sd card reader doesn't read sdhc
I was remember my last OG gateway was a BTX and I searched "btx tower" and yours is the first video. :D
Wow! That computer, though relatively old, is still quite capable! Excellent find!
CF (compact flash) is a memory card, usually for high end devices. They're still used. :)
Edit: in norway at all Child schools we have school bands, and each half A year we have something called "loppemarked" were we sell all kinds of stuff. And once we got in a computer which was working, and with almost no personal files on it, but the previuos owner had managed to leave A cd in the cd-rom drive with personal pictures on it!!
Our school districts still use some of the older versions of these BTX Gateway PCs, although the ones that they are using are the P4 HT 3.20 GHz systems. They are fast systems on Windows XP (I should rephrase, SCREAMERS) but are kinda sluggish on Windows 7, due to the fact that some of the idiots that work in our school district's tech department put x64 copies of Windows 7 on some of those machines with only 1 GB of memory. One of them is running a Dell install of Windows 7. But they aren't bad
Blowing air directly across the CPU, BTX definately has an advantage on my Dell XPS 700, as it uses a Pentium D which produces a buttload of heat.
I also can say around me no one throws them away. They now take them to Best Buy and get a $10 for each computer sometimes even more if it a newer . I found it about a few months ago. I took my old pile from 1990 well broken beyond repair . I also strip them for any good parts.
No, it's not supposed to say "Media Center Edition." Only Home edition says it on the splash screen. Professional says it on the login screen.
I do have that very same Gateway computer form factor and I am looking to get it going again for modern era however I am unfamiliar with what parts work what parts don't.
Still have a Windows 98 hard rive from the first computer I ever used. My family still regularly uses an HP Pavilion a520n from 2004.
It's weird how some Gateways of this era had the image in the recovery partition, and you had to create backup CDs, and other had the recovery image that you had to complete with the included CDs. I guess MCE was a bigger image than regular XP, although not really by that much. My 3522GZ had the full recovery image on the drive.
I have this exact computer sitting next to my desk unused. The USB ports haven't worked since at least 2007 (not a driver issue, something is just borked to where USB doesn't work at all), and I suspect there are bad caps. I'm only keeping it around because there are lots of memories on that computer I don't want to let go. Maybe I'll try to fix it and get it back up and running one of these days.
The later installs of Windows XP (after SP2) do not state the specific edition on startup.
Also, I had a Gateway from around that era. Same config, too. But all the caps were blown. All of them. The motherboard was trashed.
I agree with TheSoxmania: get that Bestec PSU out! But, at this point, try experimenting with Windows 8 on that PC for starters (to see if you like Windows 8). If not, it could theoretically be a great little internet browsing PC with Windows or Linux 64-Bit. My ideas
I can beat that, used to have an MSI gaming rig with a geForce3 TI GPU and 512MB of RAM, well, the power supply I bought for this $900 (at the time) rig was a 450W Bestec PSU, I got it for $24.99 and after about 9 months, the standby rail went open circuit and lobbed 240 volts right through it, every little part of the system was fried, had to spend $700 on a low end rig. decided not to get another bestec PSU and went for a Delta 268.9W power supply which is still working now with no issues
you might wanna change that psu, Bestec are known for bad standby rails that blow components out, due to the design, the standby rail fails after a few years and this causes a spike that ranfes from 12 to 24 volts, the original rail voltage, as you most certainly will know, having a strong knowledge on computers, is 5 volts, but even a cheap power supply is safer than that bestec that's currently in that system, in fact, 98 of mobo failures were due to those Power supplies!!
Acer bought out Gateway, Gateway bought out eMachines.
I can remember I worked on a machine when I worked for NCR . They had the contract
for Gateway and dell and there laptops. Back then a Gateway had some nice laptops. I had to keep a log of all those machine I worked on. For that machine it was the power supply and keyboard. I never seen the Belkin wireless n in those 2 I worked on ..
They had a Gateway wireless G card .
Give me the complete models and serial I still have the repair books and a lot of parts.
Great find!
more like a eGateAcerway :p Might have some Packard Bell in there too..
that's very similar to a dell in the way it's cooled. neato
as always cool story bro
Love it!
No really ACER bought Gateway and eMachines ACER is actually decent I never thought gateway or eMachines was.
Gateway 2000 is like my second favorite PC OEM behind Compaq, and the machines made while the company was still good are great!
people never throw out computers near me
I have an an emchines recovery disc from that time and for windows media center, if you want it.
My Gateway 7330Gz had an image on the drive.
man that background noise creeped me out
dang nice find. around here its not common to find stuff just trashed its mostly recycled for free through some computer recycle store or some thrift store. i wish i had a pci wireless n card with the 3 antennas but alas i dont oh well. but u got lucky none the less
Is that computer so loud? Usually BTX computers are quiet. Or does the noise come from the other computers in the room?
yh, I replace the PSUs if they're bestec, especially the ATX250 series, My school has also done as I advised, all the old machines they had with that model PSU had a corsair 250W PSU installed, I had a stockpile of them that I sold off in bulk for somewhere in the reigion of £199.95 for 30 PSUs, Cheapest buy they had!!
Around here people cling onto stuff until it really is worthless.
I remember these!
thanks to my samsung smortfone i know that the error message at 9:48 says something along the lines of "server connection failed"
Nice find.
Say what model is that white mouse you were using i think i have one myself.
nice. wish could find stuff like this. also win7 would run on that no trouble i am sure.
i have that exact same pc as that one, just without any bad caps (i checked) it has a 2.2ghz amd athlon 64 single core socket 939, 1gb of ram, 200gb hdd, nvidia geforce 6100 on board graphics.
sounds good dude. I've got a chinese 7 inch netbook i'm about to do that with. (external hdd)
when did you say this pc was made? the win vista era? sata was fairly common back then man. My computer is from 2005 and it has sata, and most of my lga 775 p4 computers are sata
sorry for spam lol
i wish i could get winxp media center edition. the dell optiplex 330 i have had messed up usb. they stoped working when os booted. worked in bios and stuff. had to reinstall and update chipset driver. my computers don't even have firewire. my laptop has mini firewire think it is though.
what i did before i sold my old pc i wiped the hdd and then recoverd windows of the partition. i have the same computer and i sold it on ebay for 60 bucks
I have that same mediacenter case!
i bet linux mint would run nice on that
Massachusetts: the pay state or taxichusetts!
what's that noise in the background?
Gateway bought out Emachines and somewhere around late 2007, Gateway and Emachines bought out Acer! plus i have a similar Gateway but it's a GT5056 but it still works and i still have tha official disc 4 it! but if i could i could find a extra one and then send it 2 u if u would like and it can go all tha way up 2 4gb of DDR1 ram which i have on mine! i just use it 4 older games! i wanna find a Quadro 2000 4 it and i had replaced tha PSU several times! currently have a 600w Thermaltake on it but plan 2 put a EVGA PSU on it
and it was gateway that bought out emachines and i don't think this pc was low end
No ACER bought both Gateway and eMachines!
acer bought out gateway AFTER they bought out emachines -_-
Joshua's Recordings no acer bought packard bell
fane richardson Acer bought a bunch of brands.
true true those power supplies destroyed my hp pavillion a1700n
friend of mine had this exact model
liquid capacitators yeah
I have a dell xps 400 that uses btx, it has 4gb ram, intel 2.8ghz pentium d, ati HD5770, and two 160gb sata hdd's I got it as part trade for a GTX 480, it came to me with 1gb ram and ati x300.
9:38 Error: I cannot read Korean
That looks like the exact pc I have but myne has a intel motherboard with a pentium D 2.8Ghz and it came with windows xp 32 but I up windows 7 64 on it. came with 1gb ddr2 has 4gb ddr2 now. none of the caps are bad and its been on almost 24/7 since like 2005 lol. Extra 500gb sata hdd, upgraded to 500W psu with one I had laying around. an ATI 5670 1gb its small 1 slot card to fit in the stupid btx form factor. extra x-fi sound card becuase the mobo audio SUCKS sd card reader doesn't read sdhc
In norway at all Chile