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TiMacLover
Senior Member
USA
1282 Posts |
 Posted - 02 Jul 2002 : 01:47:23
I have a PowerMac/Performa 5400 with TV, AV Card, ethernet, 16 ram and a 3gig hd with mac os 8.5 for sale. post me a price.Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops
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MrLynn
Junior Member
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2002 : 16:55:26
You got 8.5 to run on a 5400? We have a Performa 5215 here and it didn't even like 8.1--had to go back to 7.6.1. It has (as I recall, without starting it up) 40MB RAM, which ought to have been enough for 8.1 (but not of course 8.5, which is a RAM hog), but it crashed all the time. It's much happier with 7.6.1, but it's still a dog. Someone on the Low-End Mac site told me once, when I inquired about upgrading, that it was the worst Mac ever made. Oops--sorry, didn't mean to tread on your sale. /Mr Lynn PS In fairness, the 5400 series was a design triumph, even if woefully underpowered; it's all-in-one, with mic and speakers built-in, and a very good 15" monitor, much better-looking that the subsequent G3 all-in-one. Curator of: SE (6.0.4), SE w. 020 accelerator (6.0.8), SE w. no HD, IIfx (7.1), IIci (bad HD); plus various PPCs in family (blue G3/350 is main Mac these days).
Curator of: SE (6.0.4), SE w. 020 accelerator (6.0.8), SE w. no HD, IIfx (7.1), IIci (bad HD); plus various PPCs in family (blue G3/350 is main Mac these days).
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oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2002 : 19:11:00
The 5400/5500/6400/6500 series of Macs are great. They're based around a Tanzania logic board with a PCI bus and onboard ATA and SCSI. They have 8 MB of RAM on the logic board, and they take two FPM/EDO 168 pin DIMMs which are really cheap. My 5400/200 is happily running OS 8.6 right now, and it runs great. The case is indeed a triumph of design; the logic board simply slides out to allow for RAM upgrades and PCI cards to be added. The 52xx/53xx/62xx/63xx (except 6360) Macs are crap.TiMac, it might help if you listed the speed of the Mac and whether the ethernet is a CommSlot II card or a PCI card. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
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MrLynn
Junior Member
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2002 : 20:18:07
Oops! Senior moment!  Somehow when I saw '5400' I read '5200', and assumed it was one with my P5215. Sorry (nothing worse than public embarrassment).They do use the same case, I guess. So here's a question which oldmacman can doubtless answer: Can I replace the P5215 motherboard with one from a 5400, assuming one could be found? As you say, they just pull out. And would that solve all the 5200 series notorious problems? Or would it not be worth the trouble? /Mr Lynn Curator of: SE (6.0.4), SE w. 020 accelerator (6.0.8), SE w. no HD, IIfx (7.1), IIci (bad HD); plus various PPCs in family (blue G3/350 is main Mac these days). |
Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2002 : 20:46:25
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Can I replace the P5215 motherboard with one from a 5400, assuming one could be found? As you say, they just pull out. And would that solve all the 5200 series notorious problems?
nope, not unless you take care of the missing 3.3 volt requirement for the PCI slot. a 5500 or 6500 board will give you the 50 Mhz bus and a mobo that rolls its own 3.3 so that'd be a win-win situation. there are a couple of threads over on fritter about it if you wanna check it out.do you need to use the 1 slot reser/drawer face like on the 6360 or the higher 2 slot riser/drawer face from the 6400/6500 boxes? you might need to swap that part too, dunno. jt  ™.
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catsdorule
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Canada
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Posted - 03 Jul 2002 : 21:51:01
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that it was the worst Mac ever made
Actually the 7200s were the worst mac ever built. Just a bad design. -----
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TiMacLover
Senior Member
USA
1282 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2002 : 23:43:27
So you guys interested? Lemme know....Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops
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