From: Blaine Hufnagle (powrlftr_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 23:46:56 EST
I Picked up what looked like a 760E today at a pawnshop for what appeared
to be a steal: $150.
I get it home and start doing the normal poking and prodding to see what's
there and how well it works, and something bizarre makes itself known; it
doesn't seem to know what it is.
The model/serial number on the case is from a 760XL (9547-U9C). The
model/serial number from the system board info is from a 760EL (9547-U4H).
Of course, the keyboard says a 760E. Confused? It gets better...
When I dropped the HDD from my 760C into it (2.1G EIDE), the Win95b
hardware autodetect sequences found an Mwave system, and there's a phone
jack on the side, and the modem works, as well as the sound. But the info
from the twbook.pdf file indicates that neither the 760XL nor the 760EL
were offered with the Mwave system. It did seem to correctly identify all
the PCI hardware, as well as the Cardbus options, which I'm happy to have.
(I figure that the Win95 install is probably a bit fubared WRT the 760C.
I'm not about to fubar my NT4 install... )
I also need to figure out what kind of RAM it needs; it's only got 8MB on
board, and even Win95 doesn't like that.
It seemed to work fine, albeit slow, before I started looking around at the
twbook.pdf file, so I'm not quite sure what to make of it... It's in
cosmetically better shape than my 760C, and it should run rings around the
760C in terms of performance (at least I'd think).
So can anyone help me figure out what kind of oddball I've got?
Thanks...
-blaine
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