11/26/2022 0 Comments Gateway esx 500s specs![]() I scouted around Newegg, Ebay, and Crucial's website for options. 1GB for WindowsXP seems to be the recommended minimum so I looked at 1GB sticks. Next up the biggest bang for the buck on upgrades is more memory. Also it was 7200 RPM versus the old drive's 5400RPM and had an 8MB cache versus 2MB. It had twice the storage of the old drive at 80GB. The hard drive I ended up getting was a Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJB 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 3.5" Internal Hard Drive. The second reason being that newer hard drives have bigger caches and faster platter speeds. The first reason being that hard drives have mechanical parts which wear out and fail. I figured on an older machine a new hard drive would be a good idea. The basic specs were ATA/133 interface, 40GB, 5400RPM, 12ms Seek, 2MB cache. The motherboard manual recommended 200MHz or 266MHz DDR.The legacy hard-drive was a Maxtor N256 Fireball 3 2F04OJO. The specs on the old memory were 2.5V, 184 pin, 200 MHz, serial presence detect, non-ECC, and unbuffered. According to the motherboard manual it would support up to a 2.8GHz CPU with a 533MHz front side bus and 512kb cache.The motherboard had an integrated video chipset with an empty 4x AGP 1.5V only expansion slot.The machine had 512MB in two DDR sticks. The Intel pages had very detailed info on what RAM would work which is what I was primarily looking for.The installed CPU was a Pentium 4 2.40 GHz. That was lucky because Intel still has lots of detailed documentation on their old products, unlike the Gateway docs which were not very specific on the PC specs. When I cracked open the case I found that the motherboard was an Intel D845GRG. My initial research didn't turn up any concrete recommendations so rather than order the parts blind I wanted to take a peek inside the machine first. Gateway was bought out by I think Toshiba awhile back, plus their model number system was a bit less straightforward than Dell. Unlike the previous Dell updates I worked on the Gateway was a little harder to research. The PC make and model number was a Gateway MFATXPNT ESX500S P04. ![]()
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