From: Shawn R. Lin (slin01_at_mail.orion.org)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 14:19:19 EDT
Marc Swanson wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I will soon have a TP 760CD--Pentium 90 model. I have seen in my
> auction site travels a Pentium 120 processor card that supposedly will
> work with the -760CD (I guess it replaces the P90 onboard?). My question
> is--is this a doable upgrade? Can the average TP user do this himself?
> I glanced at the tech manual for the 760CD, and it looks possible, but
> what are the ramifications, if any? Does anything need to be reset after
> it's done? For the record, the IBM part # for this card is 29H9297.
Yes, this is not a very difficult upgrade. The most difficult part is
remembering which screw went where when reassembling the computer, and
also remembering to put it back together in order! I've often put the
computer back together and then realized that I left something out and
have to take it apart again. Let me know if you need details on pulling
out the 760 guts.
The processor card sticks to the bottom shield via some kind of adhesive
double sided tape, so you will need to remove the old one very carefully
as they are thin and fragile. My TP760C which is a P120 also seems to
have a different card than the picture that I've seen of one on Ebay.
The card itself looks the same, but the one I've seen on Ebay has
several empty spaces for chips. My card is fully populated. It might
be those chips are just L2 cache and some have them and some don't, but
I really don't know.
I think the computer will reset by itself. Just disconnecting the
keyboard clears the CMOS. BIOS is the same.
Shawn
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