Newbie needs 5300c advice. Hi I just purchased two 5300c's. Is there a site that shows how to open a case and upgrade these?
It looks like these have IDE HDs, not SCSI. I can put any OS in, it seems 8.1 would be best. Are the IDE HDs limited to a 2gig boot limit or under 8.1 as SCSI HDs are in the 7100/8100 cpus?
It's IDE. I put a 20Gb drive in mine. First partition was 18G and bootable. I only created a second partition on it as I had plans to put some kind of Unix in the second but I never did. I had OS 8.6 and 9.1 on the first partition.
With OS 8.6 does IDE 20 gig HDs work as a single bootable volulme? How about larger volumes?
Can I upgrade the video ram on the MB?
On some cpus when you overlaod the cpu max ram limit the ram works but is not seen by the OS/CPU and you still get a boost. This true for the 5300c?
Well if it's not seen by the CPU does it really matter if it works??? The only way to overload the 5300s memory is if you have 16Mb on the logic board and install a 56Mb upgrade. AFAIK it will work but you only get 64Mb.
I never messed with any OS under 8.1 very much and though I have the various X and Jag OS's since all of my macs are pre G3/upgraded to G3. I have usually ended up with 8.1 or 8.6, 8.1 most because of the support for pre powerpc apps in 8.1's language that even 8.6 does not have.
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