Let's see,

The card was supposed to be generic, but it wasn't. So when I tried to flash the newest generic firmware to it, it failed putting the card into some kind of boot wait mode. That was after following the guides here telling me to use such and such a driver and then to reset the card to ...

Thanks all,

I deliberately attempted to abandon this thread once I knew what was involved with IMEI repair. But well, it looks like it grew anyway.

@radec: Yes Quectel Modems are dead simple, indeed atrociously easy, to make "repairs on the IMEI with." So much so, that I was considering buying one ...

So after trying 3 different windows 7 machines and a combination of every driver mentioned in the repair guide and on the sierra page here https://source.sierrawireless.com/resources/airprime/software/airprime-em_mc-series-windows-drivers-qmi-build-4773/

None of the windows 7 machine either 32 or ...