Hello listers,
I have recently acquired a dead 5300ce from which I scavenged the display assembly and have put it onto a working 5300 (that had a grayscale screen). The system booted right away and the bigger screen with active matrix really looks great. However, I have difficulties with the resolutions. The control strip and monitors control panel shows 256 and thousands and 640x480 and 832x624 available. How come this comes up? I thought this is a 800x600 screen? At 256 colors it works at 832x624 but if I set to thousands the picture disappears. Upon restart I see checkerboard and other patterns. Resetting PRAM, booting with ext.off and trashing display preferences restores things to previous state. Am I limited to 256 colors? What happened to 800x600 resolution?! I'm using Mac OS 8.0.
Please cc your replies directly as I'm on digest.
Regards, Boris
Boris, I am guessing the 5300 motherboard has only 1/2 meg of VRAM, and to use thousands of colors at 800x600, you need 1 meg of VRAM. The 5300ce motherboard had 1 meg of VRAM on it.
Theoretically, you can solder down the extra 1/2 meg yourself, but I dont know if anyone has been successful doing it.
Mad Dog
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