Yeah I gave them the serial nunmber and they said no go. I may try again but have a repair shop do it, they sometimes have more clout or can do it through a distributer.
Oh man, I haven't heard 440bx in so long lol. Anyway yeah, that's it. It is a PIII so I would assume that double sided PC133 would work, but no, only PC100 will work in it. Thanks for the response.
I've been struggling to get an old Inspiron 4000 upgraded. I have 2 sticks of PC133 CL2 3.3v, both of the sticks work as confirmed in another laptop. The Dell works because the old 128MB sticks work. Both are identical except in size....
I got a 7200rpm Hitachi drive from an XPS, the XPS was replaced so I do not have the original unit. The drive was then put into a Gateway 7422GX. Dell of course will not warranty the drive since it is not with the original laptop,...
actually I just read on another forum that it is only an adapter to their PATA interface, you don't actually get sata performance which is what I am looking for. So far I have found that Dell has an Insiron with sata and so does...
actually yeah, found it out after doing some more googling
http://www.notebookforum.ca/phpbb2/docs/Benchmark.htm
I'm not sure if that is a barebones unit though, or are they all barebones? I see regular Asus brand notebooks for...
I decided to use my 7422GX strictly for work, no more games. So I just loaded all the drivers off the restore DVD vs online (except VIA). I restored the laptop first and noticed that something Gateway did smoothed all the screen fonts,...
