>I received an 8500/180 last Friday that I purchased from eBay and it
>has been giving me quite a few fits ever since, not the least of
>which is the difficulty in getting to the mobo to upgrade/swap RAM
>DIMMs. I find it so much easier to work on my 7600/132-which the 8500
>was intended to replace-the 7600 was to be going to my Ma's house. Ma
>is currently on an old Packard Bell 486 with 8MB RAM. I don't imagine
>she'll be tearing into a machine to do uprade's etc. anytime soon so
>I'm wondering now if I shouldn't set up the 8500 for her instead and
>keep the 7600.
>
>Coupla questions:
>
>Is it possible to swap out the processor cards in these two machines?
>
>Any other differences, besides design, and the processors, between
>them, that anyone knows of?
The 8500 and the 7600 have virtually the same motherboard. The 8500 MB has
some additional hardware for the composite video out capability. The
daughter cards are interchangable. Note that inserting the processor
daughter card takes a bit of force to insert. It has a double row of bins,
one is ground, so it has to go further. Make sure it is fully inserted
prior to firing it up. Yeah, the memory is a real bugger to get at.
--
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