"Mini" tower... 🤣

yea that what i thought there is nothing mini about this its tall and heavy

That was MY 1st tower as in 100% mine not the familys although mine came with a P2 400
I was thinking you had something like this

The annoying thing at least with the BX motherboard was if you tried to put a CD drive in the bottom bay the top corner of the motherboard hit the back of the CD drive so it would stick out and you wouldn't be able to screw it in.

Whats the motherboards part number? Gateway only disappeared form the web a few years ago so the drivers and manuals will probably be kicking around somewhere.

nice i used to have the same gateway as u when i was younger it was my first pc also, ive been trying to get one of those again but i cant find it anywhere, but the sticker on my gateway slect motherboard reads p04c014025525138

Is that the only sticker? No doubt as you tired that gets no results.
What about BIOS, from memory it says the motherboard part number in BIOS or at the very least at the POST screen

in the bios it says it a gateway 2000, very confusing 🤣

I take it there are no ISA slots?

Now that you got XP running, you can run some hardware tools that list all the components.

The chipset driver is something you defintely need for Windows 98 SE.

Do you need the network card? 3COM shouldn't be hard to find a driver. Same goes for the Sound Blaster, though if it's an OEM version it could be trickier. But Windows 98 SE compatible PCI cards are readily available.

Drop the RAM to 512 MB to be safe, otherwise unknown devices in Windows 98 SE don't hurt anyone 😁 Chipset, graphics and sound are the main ones.

no isa, i did have everything working in win98se except for the amd chipset drivers i did have the sound blaster 512pci driver but i think it was a really outdated one tho, i did have a live ct4780 in it but i couldn't get the drivers from here to work with it

The Live! cards can be a pain to find the correct drivers for. One of the reasons I always use a Vortex 2 card 😀

actually what i meant was i had the ct4780 but couldnt get driver to work so i put the 512 in and found drivers for that but i have like 6 of the ct4780s tho

i probably should have started this in the help topics

Had a bit of success!
Idle google for
KAD 800 found this
http://www.ubbcentral.com/store/item/VINTAGE- … 1754937009.html

So.. going from that looks like you have a Jabil Kadoka M/B
and googling that found this page I'm keeping for myself!
https://panam.gateway.com/support/supinfo/ind … =dt_mot099.html
Looks like we still need to narrow down which exact P/N you have but at least know which numbers to look for 😀
Sadly the download links no longer work but the specifications still do, so can get chipset drivers from somewhere else. Only the BIOS will casue trouble.
Other hits seem to confirm the board can handle 1Ghz CPU's (not sure if BIOS update is needed though)

very interesting, so weird that there is not a single capacitor on this board, im hopping i can find a bios upgrade cuz the bios now dosnt have crap at all for settings. I did find the chipset driver tho, but it still shows unknown pci device in win98se right now im running a dual boot 2x 20gb quantum drives one with 98 and the other with xp

after a few hours of searching i think i found the bios file here-->https://panam.gateway.com/support/drivers/get … 6&uid=491038151 i will give it a shot later and post back if it worked or not im pretty sure there is another sicker on my board that reads 4000673

Be careful, might want to hot flash a empty bios chip if your not certain you have the right bios.

yea ill check the stickers on the board better ill have to pull the pci cards to get a better look and from what i researched this was the only amd kadoka board that gateway had and it supported 450mhz right up to 1ghz

i looked over more and im already running the latest anyways but yes that bios is for my board 4000646 but this might be helpful if somebody is looking for it

you have XP loaded onto it, get Everest home and run it.

Yeh my BX based Gateway had next to no options either, but that was rebadged Intel board as well so not really surprised.
If you google the device ID for your unknown device you may get a hit on what it is, its not like that motherboard has much more then the basics on it like, sound, video, etc