Today I was at a flea market and found a 5300c for sale for $15. It had a broken power jack, but it was complete. I figured I could part it out for more than that if I couldn't get it running.
Well after soldering a new jack onto the motherboard, I reassembled the machine and tried it out. I got a pop from the speaker and that was about it. I figure it's parting out time. I took the 5300c screen and replaced my 5300cs's with it; I never would have thought that would make such a difference! While I had my 5300cs open for the screen transplant, I put the RAM card that was in this machine into it, so I could check to see what size it was. To my surprise, when I fired the machine back up, I opened the About this Computer, and it reported back 56M. Well, my 5300cs has 16M on the motherboard, meaning this card is a 40M card. That's kind of an oddball size, and I seem to recall that the 5300 series had a max RAM of 56M. If this is right, I'm going to guess that this is really a 48M card, intended to be used with the 8M motherboards. If this is so, is there any problem with me using this card, even though I'm not using the last 8M of it? The card it replaced is a 32M card, so really I'm only gaining 8M, but if this one will work fine, why put the smaller one back in? Thanks in advance, J White Anyhow, the question I have -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
