5300ce, 1.1GB hard drive, 64MB RAM, OS8 (fresh install on an initialized HD)
When I started it up the first time, it was in 256 color mode. I tried switching to the thousands mode via the control strip, but when I did that the screen went light gray and then a little darker. Restarting does the same thing - I see the mouse pointer, then the welcome to Mac OS screen, and then a blank screen. If I start up with extensions off, I get a checkerboard pattern. I noticed after staring at it for a while that the pattern changes during the startup process. Then I realized that it's the display magnified a lot. So much so that the mouse pointer is about half of the screen, and the Apple menu icon is about the same size. I can actually select the menu, but of course I can't read anything that I scroll to.
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Hi Jeff!
It sounds like you may have been taken. A genuine 5300ce shouldn't suffer from this problem. I've only ever seen it on someone trying to use a 5300ce display with a logic board that only has 512KB of VRAM (as opposed to the 5300ce's 1MB of VRAM). That means that someone swapped in a 'ce display and called the whole machine a 5300ce. Which is fraud if they sold it to you while claiming it to be a genuine 5300ce...
What speed is your CPU? If it's only 100MHz, then that's a dead giveaway as being a 5300/cs/c motherboard and not a 5300ce.
Anyway, you might be able to fix it by booting from a floppy (or with extensions off) and removing the Monitor preferences (or display prefs, or whatever it's called - you'll know it when you see it). Of course, you'll always be stuck in 256 color mode... This advice came to me from another PowerBooks lister, but I can't recall who at the moment....
And Drew, I was so inspired by your redbook I painted mine blue.
Cool! Do you have any pics?
(For those who haven't seen it, the redbook he's talking about is my RedBook 5300: <http://www.alksoft.com/projects/RedBook_5300/index.html>)
Peace, Drew
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