gateway gt5220 modding/dice?

[Skywalker12345]

hey everyone i just got an old gateway gt5220 for free! and ive done a little changes already.

• New 300w psu
• uv ide cable
• 80gb SATA hardrive
• Removed annoying btx fan case for the cpu
• added fan for exuast
• added fan to pull heat from hdds

i plan on getting a cheapo pci-express video card for some benchies ha.

i also want to overclock the shit outta this with dice pot but i realized that the mobo is gay and doesnt have any voltage options or fsb options so i would be limited. any ideas?

 

[Athlon2K15]

find the ECS board that matches that gateway board and flash the bios

 

[EiSFX]

Umm does that thing even boot by the looks of it you need a 24 Pin PSU or an adapter cuz i see your only running a 20 pin in the 24 pin plug

 

[Athlon2K15]

thats how gateway does it....my old GT5056 was the same way

 

[h3llb3nd4]

what happened to ketxxx?

 

[Geofrancis]

i think your pissing into the wind with that motherboard. only way to overclock it would be some kind of fsb clocking software and/or pin mods

try the nvidea ntune utility i think it lets you do it.

 

[Namslas90]

i think your pissing into the wind with that motherboard. only way to overclock it would be some kind of fsb clocking software and/or pin mods

try the nvidea ntune utility i think it lets you do it.

Actually AthlonX2 has it right. Find the "Retail version" of the same mobo; download the Bios and flash it. This will "unlock" the bios options available, Just be careful though make sure the major Mobo components are a match; Processor (support), chipset(type), memory(type), ethernet(version) and sound(version). Diff Bios's (depending on manufacturer) may have diff options in BIOS available!

BE CAREFULL...FLASH BIOS AT OWN RISK!! DO your research, Not responsible for BAD FLASHES. Also it may be a good idea to get a backup of your BIOS chip from http://www.biosman.com/ Also back up BIOS before flashing!.


AthlonX2 and I have both done this with great success. We found around 8-10 bioses from diff mobo makers that worked on our Gateway GT 5056's. I actually ran a Biostar Bios for about 3 months.

 

[aCid888*]

what happened to ketxxx?

X2 has the same picture.



Either way, I wouldnt kill this but I would sell it and put what little money you get for it into your rig.

 

[Skywalker12345]

do you think a C51PVGM-M (PCB:1.x) bios will work for my c51pcgm-gb V1.0? because i cannot find any other bios for this board

@acid i really wanna do some dice runs tho.... ha i might sell it after if it still works. im planning on building a itx rig soon

 

[Skywalker12345]

heres a link to my comp spec

comp specs

ntune doesnt work btw

 

[Athlon2K15]

just compare the chipsets and what it supports if your gateway matches it you could try it and see what happens

 

[Skywalker12345]

ha sounds like a good way to brick the board but more the reasoni to build the itx rig.....

im gonna try after school.

 

[Skywalker12345]

ok i just flashed the bios and botted into windows logon screen in 10 seconds! this thing is really fast at boot. only time it lags is when scrollling on web pages. i did a super-pi run ha

 

[Skywalker12345]

bios options are the same as before with a few exceptions any ideas?

 

[Geofrancis]

do you have any voltage /frequency options?

 

[Skywalker12345]

i think there is one or to avalible if i hit ctrl+F1 but there not cpu voltage i forget ill look after school.

 

[Geofrancis]

even if you dont have any voltage options try dropping the multiplier and overclocking the fsb and see how far you get. that should give us some idea of the headroom you have got on the motherboard if its a decent amount then you could look at some voltage pin mods or motherboard mods.

 

[aCid888*]

OK i just flashed the bios and booted into windows logon screen in 10 seconds! this thing is really fast at boot. only time it lags is when scrolling on web pages. i did a super-pi run ha
http://img.techpowerup.org/090323/untitled.jpg

Install the onboard video drivers and it won't lag.

Then you can sell this and get some water going for your rig.

 

[Skywalker12345]

i installed the video drivers multiple times but everytime i do the screen blanks and a little strip at the top shows the desktop thats it heres a shot right before it goes blank. i have to go into safe mode and uninstal driver for it to go back to normal.

 

[Skywalker12345]

bump

 

[Harbinger67]

What fan setup are you running as far as fan sizes go? Also, does the mobo have the proper hardware for mounting a non-stock heatsink?

I've got a buddy with the same computer who wants to upgrade it, but I can't be there in person to poke around inside. He wants to upgrade the CPU and video card, but along with those must come a new power supply and upgraded cooling. Finding out the small details like what size and how many of each size fans it can support and if it can support an OEM heatsink that comes with a boxed AMD cpu is a pain in the butt, so I figure I may as well ask someone who owns the same computer and who knows a thing or two about computers

Thanks!

 

[Skywalker12345]

well I think the motherboard only supports certain mounting for btx. But far as I've noticed my other oem and aftermarkerlt coolers don't work with it. Only single slot video cards fit because of the I/I panel

 

[Harbinger67]

Hm. There are/were some BTX-specific heatsinks out there, but they seem to be a dying (or dead) breed and hard to come by. From your pics and from what my friend tells me, the stock setup for this PC is a passive heatsink with no fan. I'm wondering if he can't just get an OEM cpu, and a fairly beefy case fan and stick that on the stock heatsink. I've done that one of my old computers when the stock fan broke; an 80mm case fan and some zip ties did the trick just fine. My only concern is that he'd be going from the stock 2.0ghz CPU to a 3.0ghz one...I wouldn't personally worry about in order for me to confidently recommend doing this for someone else, I'd have to make sure he got the best fan for the job as far as power and getting the correct size goes. About what size would you say the heatsink is? From your pics it looks like an 80mm fan would fit reasonably well; what do you think?

 

[Skywalker12345]

80mm-120mm is fine to strap on there, i just hard wired the fans to there max speed one 120mm in the front and 1 80mm in the back

 

[Harbinger67]

Excellent, thanks a lot man