This PII-233 MHz Gateway 2000 was one of the first computers to come with a DVD reader drive. Since the main CPU was not fast enough to support full-motion MPEG2 decoding for DVD playback, it uses a hardware MPEG decoder board which attaches to the video and sound cards. Unfortunately, the DVD-ROM drive is broken, and the motherboard has a "resource conflict" error which prevents it from properly recognizing IDE drives, even when using an external PCI controller.
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Monday, October 8, 2012
1998 Gateway 2000 Pentium II with DVD-ROM
1998 Gateway 2000 Pentium II with DVD-ROM Tube. Duration : 14.90 Mins.
This PII-233 MHz Gateway 2000 was one of the first computers to come with a DVD reader drive. Since the main CPU was not fast enough to support full-motion MPEG2 decoding for DVD playback, it uses a hardware MPEG decoder board which attaches to the video and sound cards. Unfortunately, the DVD-ROM drive is broken, and the motherboard has a "resource conflict" error which prevents it from properly recognizing IDE drives, even when using an external PCI controller.
This PII-233 MHz Gateway 2000 was one of the first computers to come with a DVD reader drive. Since the main CPU was not fast enough to support full-motion MPEG2 decoding for DVD playback, it uses a hardware MPEG decoder board which attaches to the video and sound cards. Unfortunately, the DVD-ROM drive is broken, and the motherboard has a "resource conflict" error which prevents it from properly recognizing IDE drives, even when using an external PCI controller.
