Hello,
(just passing here)

I had a Dell Inspiron 8000 years ago, now it is dead

For the onboard NIC, behind the connector, there is just a cable that go to the MiniPCI compartment accessible by a door on the underside.
You just have to replace the card
Actually, I got it with just a MiniPCI 56k modem and plastic filling in the RJ-45 connector. I replaced the modem by a 3com NIC to enable this connector.

I never managed to make its onboad sound working in pure DOS

It can be easily hack into a Latitude C800 to use C/Dock II that add 2 PCI slot

you can get 2.5" IDE SSDs now. that would drop the access times times and latency

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Hello,
(just passing here)

I had a Dell Inspiron 8000 years ago, now it is dead

For the onboard NIC, behind the connector, there is just a cable that go to the MiniPCI compartment accessible by a door on the underside.
You just have to replace the card
Actually, I got it with just a MiniPCI 56k modem and plastic filling in the RJ-45 connector. I replaced the modem by a 3com NIC to enable this connector.

I never managed to make its onboad sound working in pure DOS

It can be easily hack into a Latitude C800 to use C/Dock II that add 2 PCI slot

The card that is there is for the wireless. The NIC and modem are both on the motherboard, but I will take another look at it.

cdoublejj wrote:

you can get 2.5" IDE SSDs now. that would drop the access times times and latency

Not real worried on the overall HDD performance, just a small setup for some old gaming. Maybe in the future I will go that route but I have the PCMCIA/CF adapter to test out at the present time.