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| PowerBook 180/180c daughtercard compatibility with motherboard | |
| Posted by: croissantking on 2024-02-21 16:57:57 I have a PowerBook 180c daughtercard that I want to use with a motherboard that came with a 180. I see that the m/bd has the same p/n so I assumed this would be fine. But on closer inspection, I see this:  Compare to 180c version found on the web:  Has anyone tried interchanging these? | |
Posted by: mg.man on 2024-02-22 03:28:45I have a PowerBook 180c daughtercard...Hmm... I wonder where that came from? 🤔 😁 FWIW, here's a shot of the motherboard from that 180c :  Not sure what to conclude tho. | |
Posted by: croissantking on 2024-02-22 04:15:12Hmm... I wonder where that came from? 🤔 😁 No idea - it just turned up 😛 FWIW, here's a shot of the motherboard from that 180c : I see you have the glue dots that indicate it’s for a 165c/180c:  The difference has to be marginal - maybe some option resistors set at the factory? | |
| Posted by: imactheknife on 2024-02-22 05:02:48 I have a spare 180c board if needed | |
| Posted by: Powerbook27364 on 2024-02-22 15:05:16 This may not be relevant, but I have swapped the CPU cards on my 170/145B/140 all around and they have all worked with each others CPU cards and RAM. I have been running the 145B with a 170 CPU card for almost a year at this point without issue. I don't remember anything like that indicating a difference in boards however... | |
| Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2024-02-23 05:30:50 The 140/145/145B/170 all use the same motherboard so that's why that works. I don't know as much about the color vs. grayscale 2nd gen models, but if Apple called out that they were different, I'd expect them to actually be. | |
| Posted by: croissantking on 2024-02-23 06:30:52 I plucked up the courage to try and it works just fine. | |
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