I have a old gateway pc the mobo has become outdated bad . So I bought a barebones kit with an ABit UL8 Mobo with AMD 64 clawhammer 512mb of ram upgradeable to 8gb. I am wondering how I can get it read my old harddrive until I can get a newer SATA harddrive. My old pc ran 98 SE and i want to be able to just plug it in and go but without losing the 20gb i have saved. Can anyone help me with this delima? Also Can anyone recomend a excellent yet affordable video gard for the 8xAGP that is compatible with the 1.5v or 0.8v that the mobo supports? Also what is the opt-out 1 slot plug into?
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That's alot of questions...:) First, try putting your old harddrive into an external case and plugging it into the computer with USB...if you're running Windows 98SE, you'll need the drivers for the external case. A card that will suit your needs yet is under $100.00..ATI RADEON 92** series video card. Last question...not sure...is it a fibre optic port?
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well depending on your motherboard and how well you know the inside working of the computer this is possible but the board must have ultra IDE and SATA ports and reguler IDE and each connector can have 2 drives on one connector except sata those are single drives.\n\nSATA - Serial ATA\n\nThe best place to get answers for this is to know how to work on a computer and to set it up but more help can be found for this type of thing at the below link.\n\nSorry for less help? it's just that people who don't want to go in to the technacalitys of this are lazy like me and are here to answer simple questions or some with not that much technacality to go in it.\n\nregister with this site and in the General Hardware area start a topic with the same question you asked here and you will get noting but technaclity answers here and there willing to answer because they like to show there skills off to new people :) so have fun!
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I am not 100% sure.\n\nLest start here.Most 32 bit PCI slots have a maximum theoretical transfer rate of 133MB's (I.E. the maximum theoretical transfer rate of IDE)\n\nIF your motherboard's PCIslots run at 64 bits and your sata card can handle it then the maximum theoretical bandwidth is double, namely 266MB/s.\n\nIf you want true speed go for a drive that spins faster than 7200rpm like the WD Raptor. Otherwise get a raid card, 2 identical harddrives and set them up for striping.\n\nAt 133MB/s  there will be little notible differenence in speed. Sata 1's performance gain is hardly noticeable at present. However if your motherboard uses a budget chipset then maybe it would be better to get a Sata card with a better chipset on. The sata card will still be slightly bottlenecked because your motherboard is using a budget chipset but things should be noticably faster still.\n\nI benchmarked an 80 GB sata I drive on an budget SIS chipset, budget Via chipset, medium to highend Intel and a medium to highend Nforce 4 chipset. The sis and the via never got near 30 MB/s while the Nvidia and Intel scored 61 MB/s, under the stress test( it's all about the chipset).\n\nI am no expert so there might be one or two technical mistakes above.\n\nIf you get a sata card, go for something with that uses an Uli chipset, if you can, otherwise anything will do fine.\n\nAs for harddrives 8 or 16 MB cache, 7200rpm(10000rpm is very expensive). Access time shouldn't be nore than 8.0 ns to 8.5ns (lower is better)
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just buy a good drive, maxtor ( now seagate ) or western digital\nmake sure the interface is the same ( it's probaly PATA and not SATA is you got a 33gb hardrive ), most all are 7200 rpm\nyour biggest problem will be weather or not your bios can handle a drive over 137Gb if you get one that big, you also did not mention your OS, and what you be foramtting the drive to ( FAT32 or NTFS ).
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You have not stated WHAT ram slots your Motherboard has.\nGuessing by the PII 333, I would say SDRAM, the older style.\nThe newer style, DDR ram, is able to use 2 cards of ram at the\nsame time - one can read, the other can write, so that 2 cards\nof identical ram will add speed to the motherboard ram system.\nSDRAM will not add speed to your ramm system by using two identical cards - MORE ram will certainly help.\n You really should find out what the motherboard is, and go on the website to the manufacturer ( ASUS, etc. ) and get the manual PDF file, and read what ram your computer uses, at what speed.\n ( All ram comes in sizes, and SPEEDs, so that you would waste money buying faster RAM speeds than your motherboard can use ).\n The SDRAM and the DDR ram slots are slighlty different, and\nsome newer boards have both - SD is usually about 3.3 VOLTS\nwhich is clearly, but microscopically written on the edge of the ram plastic holder, about the middle of one edge on the top, and\nthe PINS are marked clearly, but microscopically on the ends from 1 to 168 pins. The DDR, is usually about 2.1 volts, and again, is clearly but microscopically marked on the plastic...\n Don;t buy any ram unless you first find out what ram sticks are allowed by the motherboard, and exactly what speed is allowed.\nIf the motherboard only sees 3 , 128 meg, PC100 ( speed ) ram\nsticks and you buy , 3 , 256, PC 133 sticks, your motherboard can happily "see" 3 128 meg sticks ( and stop counting ), and\nstate that they are running at PC 100 speed ( that is all the motherboard can do ), and you are wasting a lot of money on\nextra ram and speed that you are not using!\n There are other issues with ram, in that there are hundreds of manufactuerers, and although the amount ( 128 Meg ) and\nthe speed ( PC100 ) may be the same, the manufactuerers \ncan arrange the ram chips on 1 or 2 sides of the chip, in sets of 2 BIT rows by 64, 4 bit rows by 32, 8 bits by 64, etc. etc. and the\nram card you buy may not work in " YOUR " computer, even though it meets the Size/Speed requirements.... \n I often take the tower into a computer store, put it on the counter, and ask the salesperson to put in the ram I am buying, and\ntest it on a monitor. Sometimes I have to get 3 sticks of ram to find one that actually works...  \n Some salespeople actually build the units, and know as a rule of thumb, the "kind" of ram that fits a certain motherboard, but the best bet is to actually try the ram in the first place... There is an\nexception to every rule...\n\nHope this helps\n\nrobin
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SATA (Serial ATA) is a newer technology that uses serial transfers instead of Parallel transfers, which IDE used. It allows for smaller cables and advanced features like hotplug, which, on supported hardware, will let you plug and unplug your drives without shutting down the computer. The cost difference between the drives is minimal, if your motherboard already has a SATA port on it (most all new ones do) I'd advise for you to go for one with the connector. Keep in mind that if you have an older power supply, you may need a SATA power adaptor, as the power connectors on the drives are also different from IDE drives.
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ok you only want the system to surf the net, i pressume you will at some point want to watch video files?\nso you want a system with a minimum 512MB 333mhz or faster (higher numbered) DDR or DDRII RAM(Minimum).\nprocessor speed of 1.8GHz (1800Mhz) is a little slow but will work adequetly (i built a system for a neighbour with similer requirements to yours)\nas much cach level 1 and level 2 as possible (the higher the number the better)\n\nfor your needs as a beginer 120GB (unformatted) 111GB approx (formatted) should be a good starting point, however make sure the hard drive RPM is above 7200RPM and if the system has SATA capability even if the system has no sata drive installed will enable you to upgrade to larger hard drives (although you can upgrade your primary drive) SATA transfers faster than PATA/UDMA/IDE drives of the same size and RPM.\n\nif you can make sure the System has seagate brand hard drive(s) as this brand is the most reliable you can get.\nyou should also check the systems PSU (Power Supply Unit) as most budget systems come with only around a 350 to 400W this will in the short term be ok your system may (if you get the right PSU) work faster and with a greater level of system stability with a much larger PSU for example in my primary system i have a 650W PSU but then i'm running 7 internal hard drives, 1 DVD burner, floppy multiple PCI cards, AGP graphics card, AMD Sempron 3400 CPU.\n\nyour current system at 240MB? that sounds a little problem? as memory is normaly in multiples such as 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB (1GB), and buffered or unbuffered you should never mix buffered and unbuffered in the same system or your system will become unstable.\nremember when you get your new system you should be able to install the old hard drive in the new system for ease of accessing your old personal data.\n\nif you were local to me i could possibly provide better assistance such as either browsing the stores with you or buying the components and assembling the system yourself.\nremember that if you do build a new computer and scrap your old one you can get away with using your old software, some of your old hardware such as your display panel keyboard and mouse etc.\nthe only think you would realy need to buy would be new main board, CPU, RAM, and possibly a new hard drive. you then just scrap your old system components. which means if money is tight why buy a complete new system if you only need the new components, by buying and building selectively you can get more for your money effectively. however unless you know what you are doing you could fry the componets as they are electostaticaly sensetive, so you need to ground yourself with a wrist strap or other device when building your system remeber to ground to any properly earthed such as a cable connected to bare copper on a central heating system or other similar instalation.
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You need to check the user manual whether your system supports SATA. FYI you need different interface on the motherboard in order to use SATA hdds
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open up your rig and look at the HD itself. I have never heard of a HD that supports more then 1 type of interface. It is either IDE or SATA. Your Hd may support more then one type of power connection. Thats about it.
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I looked up your system at http://www.coastmemory.com/\n\nHere are the two systems:\nSystem Specs \n Type of system: Laptops \n Bus Architecture: PC Card (PCMCIA) \n Comments: 100MHz FSB \nSystem Memory \n Standard Memory: 128 MB (removable) \n Maximum Memory: 512 MB \n Maximum Expansion: 2 sockets \n Comments: PC100 SDRAM SODIMMs \n\nSystem Specs \n Type of system: Laptops \n Bus Architecture: PC Card (PCMCIA) \n Comments: 133MHz FSB, Intel 830MG Chipset. \nSystem Memory \n Standard Memory: 128 MB (removable) \n Maximum Memory: 1.0 GB \n Maximum Expansion: 2 sockets \n Comments: PC133 SDRAM SODIMMs  \n\nIf you checked the markings can can't tell between the 100MHz and 133MHZ, you might open up the memory cover and look to see what is already inside.  These are often marked. \n\nThis company offers a guarantee that it will work.   So if you make an error, just call them and get the RMA number.  They currently sell the 512MB stick for $95.00.  1.800.4MEMORY  \n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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Usually, with or without windows on it, and even if the current hardware was different as u mentioned, the drive should have read alright..shouldn't have any problems.\nDo you a drive letter for that old drive when you go My Computers?\n\nThings to check:\n.. does your BIOS detects that an additional drive is there?\n(if not, your jumper settings are wrong)\n.. is the old drive set as slave and your current drive set as master? \n..do you get a drive letter for the old drive when you go to My Computers?\n(if not, right-click on My Computers--Management--Storage-->Disk Management).\n\nunless your hard disk is damaged or otherwise, you should be able to access it if you stick closely to those checklist.\n\nAnother solution I can give is to just format it, and then use a recovery software to search for and recover files deleted during reformatting.\nOne such example is RecoverMyFiles\n\nCheers!
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It is likely that you will blue screen as the mobo drivers won't be installed for any new mobo you put in unless it is the same board however if this does happen it is a simple matter to reinstall the operating system and this doesn't mean you will lose your data as long as you just reinstall the operating system only and don't reformat/repartition the hard drive. If you do that you will lose any data on the hard drive.
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One, your age doesn't matter.\n\nTwo, how do you know HD is good? Try a diagnostic tool for whatever brand. Is the windows cd good? You may have problem if your Windows is already installed on another system, as your windows license is good for one motherboard.\n\nAre you getting any error messages? You can edit the message in your original question. Remember this much details yield no analysis. Best I can tell you to do is run these different diag tools. Also, make yourself a Ultimate Boot CD and check system with that.
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No - they are different - The SATA drive / connection is 3x faster than the ATA (also known as PATA).\n\nThe board in the link will not operate at the 3x faster speed as the hard drive is a SATA II drive.  HOWEVER, it will still work with the board because SATA II is backward compatible with SATA I and is still faster (50% faster) than ATA100.
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Slide the harddrive into it's slot at the front of the case and tighten screws. Do not overtighten or it will cause the harddrive to bind. Then look on the motherboard right next to the cpu chip (the fan is on top of this) for a 25 pin connector attach one end of the ribbon cable (If it is cable select it will have a blue connector on the cable) then connect the other end to the harddrive. start the computer, the bios should automatically find the harddrive, but if it doesn't you will have to go into setup, (could be the esc, delete f-2 or f-8 button) and select harddrive. Provided you didn;t change any of the jumper settings on the back of the harddrive it should work with no problems.
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Look at the old hard drive.  There should be a label with the model number and manufacturer on it.  Search the model number at the manufacturer's web site.  It should tell you which kind of hard drive it it.\n\nTypically, it depends on what connector is on it.  A small connector which is about a little over half an inch is a serial ata connector.  A larger connector about 2 inches wide is a ata/uata/dma/udma/ide connector.  Each of these different modes are different transfer speeds, but plug looks the same.  By researching your model at the manufacturer's site will tell you what speed it will transfer at, thus giving you the right protocol hard drive to purchase.  \n\nfor example,\nultra 33 - theoretical 33 MHz transfer\nultra 66 - theoretical 66 MHz transfer\nultra 100 - theoretical 100 MHz transfer\nultra 133 - theoretical 133 MHz transfer\nsata 150 - theoretical 150 MHz transfer\n\nThere are also SCSI drives, but most mainstream home computers don't have them.\n\nHard drives don't come in RAID form, it is how how you set up your hard drives if your motherboard/host adapter supports RAID.  RAID is an array of hard drives.  You can use multiple hard drives in RAID to get effects such as combined output from multiple hard drives for more output speed, or for redundancy such as writing to two hard drives at once so you have an extra hard drive with with same data for backup in case one happens to die. More advanced versions of RAID can do both of these functions (combined output and redundancy) at the same time.
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It's an AGP card, & requires an AGP slot, not a PCI slot.\nIf your motherboard has no PCI slot then one of them will have to go.\n\nIf you investigate replacement of the motherboard, keep in mind that there exist different flavours of AGP - not all are compatible. (see link below).\n\nAlso, even if the new mobo will take your existing processor, you will probably need to remove the heatsink to remove the cpu.  Then you will need to clear the cpu * base of the heatsink with special solvent and reapply some arctic silver or similar to ensure an even and efficcient connecion between the two.\n\nThen it's likely that you would need to reload all your software from scratch.\n\nIf you were to buy a new new PC it might not have an AGP slot, as this is being superceded by the PCI-E slot.\n\nSorry.  The only possible ray of hope is that your PC actually has an AGP slot - you just weren't looking for it, and it already has a graphics card therein.  The R9000AIW would replace this card.\nThis might make you feel foolish briefly, but I hope that's the case, because it's all there is!