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Gateway 2000 P5 motherboard

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TravisHuckins

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Considering my Gateway 2000 P5-90 motherboard might be messed up beyond repair... the rest of the system seems fine. If anyone has a P5 motherboard I would like to know. I'm looking for something that uses modern CMOS batteries like the P5-120.

Perhaps I should ask if a P5-120 motherboard would work with a P5-90 case?
 
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I'll keep your offer in mind. Waiting on a part to see if it fixes my P5-90 board. Though I've noticed that P5-120 uses a modern-ish 20 pin power supply connector so I would have to get a new power supply.
 
Well after the new DS12887 arrived still no post so I think I need that motherboard. Just to clarify, it does have a really battery and not a RTC right?
 
I'm still looking for a P5-90 board (one with socketed 12887 or battery mod) or a better board with cr2032 that will work with a Gateway P5-90 case...
 
There is currently an Intel P5 motherboard on eBay, but it doesn't have a socketed RTC. IIRC Gateway also used Micronics boards for quite some time, so you might want to try searching for a Micronics board (Socket 5?) if you haven't already. Unless you want the Gateway 2000 BIOS. Im thinking your Gateway probably has the two PS/2 port holes? Most Gateways from the mid-90s did.

Here's the link
 
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PS2it said:
There is currently an Intel P5 motherboard on eBay, but it doesn't have a socketed RTC. IIRC Gateway also used Micronics boards for quite some time, so you might want to try searching for a Micronics board (Socket 5?) if you haven't already. Unless you want the Gateway 2000 BIOS. Im thinking your Gateway probably has the two PS/2 port holes? Most Gateways from the mid-90s did.

Here's the link
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Yeah I'm currently looking at a Micronics board and it appears it might have some weird socketing mechanism which would be better than having soldered directly to the board. The seller is going to take a look at it for me and that might be the board I decide to get.
 
TravisHuckins said:
Yeah I'm currently looking at a Micronics board and it appears it might have some weird socketing mechanism which would be better than having soldered directly to the board. The seller is going to take a look at it for me and that might be the board I decide to get.
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The Micronics boards are probably the best choice being that there fairly common and usually not too expensive. The only problem I have with them is the RTC like you mentioned, I'm not sure they made any Socket 5 (maybe 7 too?) boards that took coin cell batteries.
 
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