packard bell

[alondra]

one of my neighbors just brought over a Packard Bell, says Force 2067 on front, did a search with out much help, can't get a post, to get to bios. just loads thru to win 98. has a socket 3. with a very strange CPU looks like some kind of adapter between the chip and socket. how do I see post, or get to settings.

[Bsdboy]

You might find help here: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8774/

Bsdboy

[sns]

I upgraded the ram on a friends packard bell and tried to find info on it before hand - what a hassle, a few sites said the name on the front didnt amount to anything because the m/boards could be varied. I think his was a legend 4433. Anyway opened it and found a MSI MS-6159 board and got all the info from manufacturer site. Was a fairly old board considering he hasnt had it long.
The board part number was between the pci slots and hard to see without a torch so if you can find out the neighbours m/bd part number you may have better success along that path. Just an idea.

[alondra]

TNX guys, found out alt>cont>s got to the bios forms, primative compared with other machines, still can't find out speed of CPU. only 2 slots for ram. have 16meg. does run win 98. somebody stuffed in a second HD, both total about 3/4 gig. interesting toy, really weird construction, a lot like an old Tandy I have.