Recent content by John Gibbs

Thx for the info, all. :) . So the memory board from the 5300 gives me the chimes of death in the 190 so I assume it’s toast. Still the 190 works so moving to that for my primary project for now.  I’ve hot a 3com Ethernet card arriving soon and will be setting up Netatalk 2 in My Linux server...

Oh no! So I picked up a working PB190 that arrived today - I understand there's a lot of commonality between parts. I might try the power daughtercard from the 190 in the 5300. Sadly the battery from the 190, while not as bad as the one from the 5300, is also toast. Mike, if the power...

Thanks both. Mike, let me know how you get on. $159 is over twice what I paid for the laptop but if it works :) Bibilit, the caps look worse in the photo but a few are SLIGHTLY bulging on the top, barely... I can't see how to unsolder them though if I wanted to replace. The good news is my PCB...

Awesome Mike, thx! Is that a new PRAM battery or the actual PB battery? Where did you get it? Cheers John

Hello all! I picked up a PB5300cs over the weekend, an eBay find. I should have taken "before" photos but didn't - the battery either leaked or there was some sort of electrolytic reaction as a good half of the case was covered in what looked like copper sulfate. Luckily, the motherboard and...