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I'm guessing the keyboard took a beating from your mom beating on it but the case itself is in beautiful shape. 99 out of 100 of them are horribly worn out and beaten from being kicked around in garages for years.

I'm amazed that Deskstar drive still works though, I have quite a few of those that I need to take out to the garbage bin 😜

VOGONS is just the kind of forum I've been looking for. I'm really stumped as to why I never knew about it before now. This Gateway is my first time at restoring and modifying a computer for the best gaming performance. And I must have spent over a hundred hours on the internet researching and educating myself. The information highway was indispensable toward the success of this build. Wish I had known about VOGON.

You know it never occurred to me until you mentioned the keyboard. But I did have to get another keyboard because the original one had 2 dead keys. I bought an old NMB Keyboard. It's cream color, solid & heavy. Matches the Gateway perfect.

I was going to dispose the Deskstar and use a Western Digital, that was my 1st intention. Then I took a look at it and it seamed like a pretty nice HDD. It's heavy too, not that that means anything but it works great. It's fast enough, it's quiet and never even gets warm. I like how it looks, "IBM" real computerish. Western Digital HDD's make a humming noise and vibrate.

Had the P2 version of this, was MY (as not the families) first PC.
Interesting they dropped the on-board SB64 PCI form the Tabor 2, Still I always liked the fact its a rebadged Intel board.
Intel was famous for stable motherboards, BX was famous for being stable, so this must be one of the most stable motherboards ever?

One thing that always annoyed me was CD drive wont fit in the bottom bay as it hits the motherboard, that was back when I wanted a separate CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-ROM depending on what I was doing to save wear and tear on expensive drives. Now I'd just use a single DVD-RW and even then just to install the OS and copy everything else across the network. times change eh?

You actually have a nice crossover DOS/win9x gaming PC. add a ISA soundcard and your good to go, the TNT2 has great DOS support, although its holding back you Windows gaming a bit, or if you ant to keep it somewhat original, add a voodoo2 card or 2 and you'll be set!

When I first acquired this computer I had no idea what components were in it. During my research I was happy to learn that the motherboard was considered to be one of the best in it's class. The case is nice and sturdy with plenty of room, it's all business yet attractive too. This combination makes a great foundation for any build I may try on it.

I finished the build on this about a year ago. I'm just now posting the project for anyone who might find it interesting. Because I did a lot of unique mods to the case.
This computer was a special achievement for me because of a few reasons. I have very little knowledge about computers and this was my 1st time building one. This computer was destined for the trash and now it is sitting in my office as a serious Win 98 gaming PC. And, Since this computer is from the Windows 98 era and I built it in 2016, it was difficult to find the resources and information I needed, as I had no prior experience I had to learn everything.

Actually I have a Pentium machine that I use for DOS 6.22 this Gateway will only be Win 98.
And it's interesting that you mention the TNT2 & Voodoo 2. Because this PC originally came with the TNT2 card, and now it has the Diamond Voodoo 2 cards in SLI (Mega Monster).