From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 00:44:22 EST
If it has MWAVE, it is without a doubt a 760E, could be a 120, P133, or a
P150
Sounds like someone mixed and matched the case and system board. Really
strange that the BIOS reports it as a 760EL!
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Hufnagle <powrlftr_at_ix.netcom.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 11:46 PM
Subject: Something Oddball..
> 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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