I was just wondering if I should upgrade this Gateway Performance 1300 PC. I got it from a freind as a gift . They purchased a new one and gave me there old one . Now being that it is 8 years old I was wondering if I shoud spend the money to upgrade it.
Intel 1300MHz (1.3GHz) Pentium 4 Processor and Motherboard
AMD Athlon (tm)Processor
384 MB of Ram RDRAM PC800 Memory
I have changed the hard drive from 40GB to a 200GB
I had to remove all of her file and used a wipe drive and the pc said I had no harddrive when i remove thing sometimes I do to go of a job.
Right now I can not use the USB ports . The little white platic fell out. The mouse no longer works .
So what do you think should I try to upgrade it or not

I would check the motherboard and see what the max capability is and just max it out, you could pick up parts for an old PC like that dirt cheap.

Ok Here is what is in this system you tell me where to start.
AMIBIOS System Configuration(c) 1985-2001 American Megatrends Inc.
Main processor: AMD Athlon (tm) Processor
PIC Drives
ON Board USB Controller IRQ15
On Board USB Controller IRQ 5
AGP VGA, IRQ5
C-Media USB Audio Device Drive
C-Media USB Mas storage Controller Drive
4.10.2000 Drive
BISO Type American Megatrends
BISO Date 06-26-02
BISO ID 62-0626-001131-00101111-040201-SiS735-K7s5A-
OEM sign on K7s5A Release 06/26/2003
Super ID IET 8705/SiS 950 rev 2 Found at port 2eh
chipset SiS 735 rev 1
OS microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1.2600 serpack2
CPU
Type AMD
Speed 1200mhz Max speed 12mhz
BIOS Rom memory 384 mb
insocket yes
size 256k Max 512MB


This system has crashed many times the last big crash told me I had the following systems running on it .
Windows 95, 98, SE,ME,NT,2000,XP,AND Vista. The only problem with that is I don't have 95 or 2000 or Vista. This happen back when Vista first came out.

Hello I would not install Vista it is not capable to run it.

I would add more RAM say 512 stick.

This is not a great computer however if you are using as general surfing and downloading it is fine.

I would install XP Home as its cheaper than Pro.

You will need to download drivers for the system,ie,chipset,BIOS update and a few others.

If the USB are faulty you can buy PCI cards they just push in a slot inside PC.

If there is not an eithernet port you can install one for just a few dollars.

If you want to connect wirlessly then just go for USB adaptor they again are cheap enough to buy.