macuserman
Well-known member
Well I'd just about given up on this 5300 I have been so frustrated with it, these aren't expensive machines so I haven't wanted to invest much into it, but man I have tried a lot of tricks. Anyhow I bought this parts lot of 5300 parts for $1 hoping the power board in the machine would fix mine. It didn't and the motherboard was rough looking had the DC jack torn off. So on a whim I removed the jack from my complete machine and put it onto the parts bin board and boom we have startup chime all is wonderful, and the ugh that horrible screen which changes if I apply pressure to the bezel on the left hand side, but I can barely make out that flashing floppy icon. Now the question is what to do with this mess, fix the screen? Sell this mess for parts? ugh, so close but so far.