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While I have had mostly great luck with ebay not this time.
A plain 9548-40U, that I think should have had a 233 came with a 200mhz MMC-1 board, PMC20005001AA. If I remember right this one had keyboard issues as well.
What else will be a proablem besides the ESC - F1 "keys on boot"
if I go with a PII upgrade over getting a correct PMC2300500xx procesor board?

That 40U model has the correct MB and processor, an MMX CPU sad to say.

Upgrading the early 770 series machines from the MMX CPU to a PII is problematic at best.

Either run it as-is or resell it on eBay and pick up a cheap 770E or better. There's tons of them available, some for as little as $25.

Regards,

James

Thanks, bout what I figgered. Will see if I can restore function, otherwise will part it out as it's mostly tore down now.

Well, depending on usage you might be fine. I had an old Pentium MMX 200 laptop from some off-brand company with 32mb RAM that ran Windows 98 like there was tomorow though if you plan on getting any serious use out of it, I'd reccomend restoring it to the best shape you can, sell on eBay for as much as you can and apply money towards something speedier like a 770E or more prefferably a 770X.