Pimp my gateway

Melinge

Ive got an old win98 gateway pc,what I want to do is
Get a cheap small hard drive(for the os)
Replace the ram, (I have 512mb that came from a dell dimension 4550 will this work)
Get a cheap flat pannel
get a wirerless mouse and keybord(least importent
any advice or websites for a budget:D

Ruu_Old

The smallest hard drive nowadays to buy would be about 40gbs in most shops, unless you want something second hand. Give us the model of the gateway and we should be able to find out whats the max amount of ram (and type) that will work with your computer.

alantc

Don't bother with a screen. VNC. And use 2 monitors on your regular PC.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

to check if the ram works, put it in and see if it works

Saruman

A flat panel is worth more than the PC no matter what you put in it... is there anything in particular you want to do with it?

Go to www.crucial.com and put in model of the pc and it will tell you about the ram specs etc. You can compare to the Dell you took the other ram out of and see if its the same.

netwhizkid

alantc wrote:

Don't bother with a screen. VNC. And use 2 monitors on your regular PC.

If you are to use VNC use UltraVNC Software as RealVNC is a pain in the neck as it does not support the € symbol. This will end up bugging the heck out of you as did me and my neighbour who I was trying to fix it for. There is no fix so I shall have to uninstall the RealVNC software and install UltraVNC instead sometime soon.

UltraVNC FTW

Melinge

ok forget the flat screen, come back to the memory later where is the cheapest place to buy a hard disk

BadCharlie

sean_keevey wrote:

to check if the ram works, put it in and see if it works

If its the wrong type of ram and you somehow get it to fit into your motherboard then pop goes your moterboard !!

Nukem

Use evervesf or PC wizzad and find out the specs of the computer. Use crucial or corsair or someone like shop4memory to get a compatible type then. For cheap HDD's check adverts.ie ! Mite pick up a cheapy on nowafflepcs or somewhere like that

Melinge

how do i leave a comment on adverts.ie

Ruu_Old

Melinge wrote:

how do i leave a comment on adverts.ie

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mukki

i had a p5-120 gateway 2000 pc

i took out the old mailman mother board, fitted a silent 400watt power suply, an asus raid mb, 512mb ram, a silent geforce 5200fx and a p4 3ghz, parts cost me about €300 off ebay. it my 24x7 mediacenter that everyone who calls to the house is amazed by

zilog_jones

netwhizkid wrote:

UltraVNC FTW

Never tried UltraVNC myself, but I've used TightVNC a good few times without any problems - it can also do JPEG compression to minimise bandwidth (can be handy if you ever need to use it over the interweb).