Gateway ZX4800 'All In One' - Restoration! 

Congrats on 10k subs! I uploaded these recovery discs to the internet archive a few years ago so I'm glad you were able to get use out of them! Always interesting to see computers restored to their original functionality.

The channel is growing quickly, I am very happy for you. Congratulations!

For upgrading the video, that's a *maybe* depending on how deeply involved with the motherboard you want to get. It looks like it has pads for a MXM slot, it might be possible to add the slot to the board and install a MXM video card for improved video. The pads for the slot being there means that there was at least one configuration of that machine with a dedicated video card. There will likely be a few passive components needed as well as the slot. Since MXM is just a PCIe bus in a different slot, it probably needs some capacitors on the lines. I think they're 22 nF. I've added PCIe slots to OEM boards before. It is time consuming, but it has a decent chance of working. The capacitors are the things that take the longest time to add though, since they're often the size of a grain of dust.

The "newer" Dell All-in-ones (like the 2350 as an example) with hardware in the base make nice secondary 1080p HDR monitors. They have an HDMI In port on them and you can turn off the screen seperately from the computer part. They also make a decent general purpose streaming PC or server PC with the i3/i5/i7 CPU's in them. I've picked up a few for next to nothing.

Never been this early! AIO are not necessarily my thing either. At work we put together the modular version by putting in a very small dell optiplex system in a dedicated case that is screwed between the monitor foot/arm and the monitor itself. I have seen several AIO with a VESA mount. That would be pretty interesting on a monitor arm. One advantage of glossy display's is that color's can really pop. Disadvantages: Shiny mirror! note at 20:00. That is part of the chipset. The processor is from the Core 2 era so it is still based on the traditional separate north and southbridge design. with graphics integrated in the northbridge same with the memory controller.

Running an SSD really speeds up these systems. I had a Lenovo AIO for 8-9 years before something went wrong and it stopped working.

Congratulations on 10K, by the way - well deserved.

OMG! I can't believe how much useless crap the OEM manufacturers used to put on these systems! These older PC's were like the modern "billboards" for software back then! I guess Gateway was trying to save their company by selling screen space to all those software developers but all they did was just accelerate their demise by literally killing the performance of their systems as a result. Let that be a lesson to you Dell!!!

Where? "Here" Drink everytime he says "here" 😂 Love the content!!

Congratulations to 10.000 subs! :)

cpu upgrades should be cheap and easy to find. Many laptops used that socket 479

Nice! Good to see that a harddrive replacement doesn't require too much work and as you say the ram is enough for 32bit windows 7.

I think Gateway is a nostalgic pc brand.

I used to do optical drive first but decided years ago it was better to stick to the boot drive and just pick the boot menu if you need the optical boot. Now its a flash drive anyway with Windows 11 needing dvd9 for optical lol. You make the boot time longer checking the optical drive booting in.

A computer lab closed at work about 18 months ago and I was able to do a "dumpster dive" in there are salvage a few interesting bits and pieces - two of which were Lenovo Thinkcentre A70z All In One Machines that are about the same age as your Gateway one. I was able to upgrade the Core 2 Duo CPUs in them to really cheap Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPUs. They also had 4GB RAM (2 x 2GB) each but because they are DDR3 RAM it was very cheap to put in two 4GB RAM modules in each to upgrade them to 8GB. (Your machine is DDR2 and 4GB DDR2 RAM is expensive, assuming your machine will recognise 8GB.) I also stuck an SSD in both machines and put (Gentoo) Linux on them - they are perfectly fine daily driver machines, even if they have only Intel Series 4 graphics. I wouldn't buy such machines normally (due to the form factor) but am happy to use them as freebie PCs.

Great video, I enjoyed that,I still occasionally use my all in one pc almost identical to your one in this video, it's ultra reliable and have owned from new, the imo best feature is the movie maker it's just so simple to use, only downside to these old PCs that uploading to you- tube ect takes ages lol , thanks for sharing,ATB Matty

Heh, I see you did an unintentional 'face reveal' with the Gateway's screen being glossy / reflective! The camera / mic on my laptop have on/off sliders which physically disconnect them, great for privacy! Nice that the Dual Core T4400 has 64-bit support & I read the ZX4800 can do 4GB maximum.

Congrats on 10,000 subs 😄 Speaking of upgrades, since it uses Socket P processor with GM45 chipset, it should be able to take Core 2 Duo P9700, T9900, maybe even Core 2 Quad Q9000 and Q9100 but they have 45W TDP. They aren't cheap though as they're the top dogs of their respective lines, so you may wanna consider lower models like P8800 or T9600 which cost less while not being much slower. Also it can take 8GB RAM but 4GB DDR2 SODIMM modules are rare and very expensive, so I'd just upgrade to 4GB and be done with it, 2GB DDR2 SODIMM modules are cheap as chips anyway.

One big advantage of this AIO: Being able to see you a bit in your video. 😄

I've never been keen on the All-in-One computers as they are a pain in the neck to repair, and you can only basically upgrade very few bits like the RAM, HDD and optical drive if it has one. I like the small form factor systems, like the Dell OptiPlex 780SFF which I own one as at least I can upgrade the graphics, and install a WiFi card. I do have a Acer Veriton USFF with an Intel Atom which only the RAM and HDD can be upgraded, but I only use it in the bedroom for streaming on RU-vid and some light office work. Also congrats on reaching 10K subscribers.

In my opinion, that computer is fairly well designed for maintenance, except for the cmos battery of course. The Dell XPS 2720 AIO is well designed for maintenance, however, it has a built in PSU., and those often fail, they are removable though and after market replacements are available.

11:26 Yes, the temperature is normal. BIOSes of that era usually poke the CPU at full speed, at least one core. If you leave it like that, the temperature will raise more a bit until the fan kicks in and the terature will fall, assuming no dust bunnies covering the finns. T4400 is a socket P CPU. You can probably upgrade that system to have intel Core 2 Due P8800 or P9600/P9700. I mentioned Pxx00 because those are lower wattage and the Txx00. 44:15 It's probably too late for Windows 10 as MS no longer lets us free upgrade from Windows7/8/8.1 to 10. However, you have digital licenses free from paste Win10 activations in your MS account, you can try to associate one of those licenses to the new installed Win10. I would throw in a intel P9x00, 4gb ddr2-800, and a cheap 128gb ssd. Then I would install Windows 10 x64, or maybe force it to Win11.

I really enjoy your videos, I always look forward to new ones, how about twice a week? LOL

Those AIO units are a real hit or miss.

Congrats on 10k subs! :D By the way, will you be posting the restore media discs for that specific model Gateway on the Internet Archive?

Try some Meguire's Cleaner Wax from the automotive section on the rear of the case. is should help with the scratches and help bring up the shine.

With the blackboard game, you drag the fan icon. it's essentially a physics game

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When that computer was new it would have come with a wireless mouse and keyboard that worked of a usb dongle.

I swear my highschool had a fleet of these (Though with slightly better specs) in the computer labs

This looks similar to my HP Touchsmart 310 PC that I have floating around here..

ZX4800 should take up to 8GB of ram, given that it's based on Intel GM45 chipset. However, expect to pay exorbitant price if the motherboard uses DDR2 module. Update: on laptops with identical chipset, I have also managed to replace the stock processor (usually some mid-range Core 2 Duo in my case) with something like a Core 2 Duo P9600. And yes, I absolutely hate replacing cmos cells on AIOs and many laptops.😮‍💨

Thank you for that video, Interessting All in One PC. I have Two Lenovo thinkcentre all in One PCs. With the same Foult, both running fine, but both can´t restart (WARM) so i neet to zurn of the PC and restart it cold. Every time i try to restart the PC the PC Froze with Black Screen. Beside that, Both Systems Running well. And both have 8 GB DDR3 RAM one with Core i3 and other with Pentium.

Never feel that bad for a mistake lol, I have been so worked up before just to realize a plug was not fully inserted on the PSU lol.

That battery location is terrible, if'n it were me, I prolly would've soldered a couple wires to the holder, and then mounted a holder somewhere more convenient so I never have to deal with that. As to all in ones, I like them, I'm currently running a POSIFlex for my laser engraver.

"If disable, System Fan will run direstly the maximum speed.." Did a BIOS engineer back in the day use google translate from mandarin or something.. :D

I was at my local Goodwill (thrift store down here in the states) looking for an old CRT or 4:3 LCD monitor, and they had this 27" Lenovo monitor for $12.99 and I was like "hmmm what's this" then noticed it had a decal for intel Core i7 on it.... I bought it without testing it, and it turns out it's a 13th generation i7 with 16GB RAM 512GB SSD and 27" touch screen..... the screen has a couple scratches, but all and all, it's a great little AIO system....

First time I see a 3,5 inch drive in a all in one computer. I could not see how the gpu die made contact with the heat pipe, was it a pad or why no thermal paste?

Maybe I missed it - did you put thermal paste on the chipset as well when reattaching the heat sink, or did it have a thermal pad on the cooler assembly?

My parents bought that same Gateway AIO computer new and I liked the computer but unfortunately It wasn't that reliable. Two years old the HDD drive. Three years later ODD failed and on fifth year the screen backlight failed. After that it got parted out.

This one is quite neat, but what in the PENTIUM??

I just found one of these in the garbage but it has a password needed. what can I do to get around that. Thank you

HaHa, the blackboard game program. So tied up in narrating the video, you missed that the game was giving you the solution right in front of you! But it is cool, all in good fun!

I was right Can Upgrade CPU

I would have replaced the SATA HDD with a SDD while you had it apart.

ANother interestig PC with potential for upgrades!!Bios update and CPU ,RAM and maybe SSD!!Of COurce x64 bit OS!!

AIOs are also not my cup of tea, to the point where I barely care if it's retro. Nevertheless, I suffered through this video with you lol

I Thinking Cpu On AIO In Upgradable

I'm over here like upgrade???

Cool video but I don't like this kind of PCs. There are often thermal problems with this 😊. This All in one PCs only have heatsink without fan.

Why not install a fresh copy of windows 10 on it, I'm sure it would work good on this all in one, my 16 year old Lenovo ThinkPad t61 works good with windows 10, it has a intel core 2 Duo CPU and a nvidia Quadro GPU

you should have upgraded th Cpu , It's socketed

Gateway ZX4800 All in One PC Windows 7 include Microsoft Office 2007 but not Microsoft Office 2010

My mom had a ZX6800 that had to be taken apart a few times (let's just say the original hard drive was not very reliable). Interesting that the 6800 uses desktop components and the 4800 uses laptop components; the 6800 also had a built-in power supply. Random observation: these came with elcheapo non-bluetooth wireless keyboard/mice with a teeny little dongle that would easily get lost... This was certainly made by Acer.

Nice video as well!😊

Nope This Is SouthBridge Chip Not GPU

i absolutely hated all in one systems as they are hard to work on and all the ones friends had were trash

my dell is cursed

we can't really call it retro Windows 7 is still usable in 2024