Macintosh Performa 5200

Macintosh Performa 5200 series

Macintosh Performa 5200. Photo: All About Apple museum, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Specifications
Manufacturer	Apple Computer, Inc.
Type	All-in-one desktop personal computer
Released	May 1, 1995
CPU	PowerPC 603 at 75 MHz
Memory	8 MB, expandable to 64 MB
Storage	500 MB to 1 GB IDE hard drive; CD-ROM; 1.4 MB SuperDrive
Display	Built-in 15-inch shadow-mask CRT
Sound	16-bit stereo output (some early boards 8-bit)
ROM	4 MB
Dimensions	445 × 406 × 383 mm (17.5 × 16 × 15.1 in)
OS / Firmware	System 7.5.1 and later
Model no.	M3046

The Macintosh Performa 5200 series is Apple's first all-in-one PowerPC Macintosh for the consumer market: a 75 MHz PowerPC 603 with a 15-inch colour monitor in one case. Apple sold it as the Performa 5200CD, 5210CD, 5215CD and 5220CD, and to schools as the Power Macintosh 5200/75 LC. Apple's technical specifications list no Performa 5200 without a CD-ROM drive; "Performa 5200" is the name Apple's repair notice uses for the series.

The later Performa 5260CD and 5270CD look the same but use a different logic board, power supply and 14-inch tube, and have their own service manual.

Models

Performa 5200 series (Apple technical specifications; order numbers from EveryMac)

Model	Introduced	Hard drive	CD-ROM	Market	Order numbers
Performa 5200CD	May 1, 1995	500 MB – 1 GB	2× or 4×	US	M3940LL/A, M3941LL/A, M4110LL/A
Performa 5210CD	May 1, 1995	500 MB	4×	Not sold in the US; Japanese system software (J-7.5.1)	M3970J/A
Performa 5215CD	July 17, 1995	1 GB	4×	US	M4107LL/A
Performa 5220CD	May 1, 1995	500 MB	4×	Not sold in the US; Japanese system software (J-7.5.1)	Not recorded

Sources: Apple's technical-specification pages for each model and EveryMac. EveryMac gives July 14, 1995 for the 5215CD and 5220CD, and says the 5210CD and 5220CD were sold in Asia and Europe.

All four share Apple's figures: PowerPC 603 at 75 MHz, 8 MB of RAM in one of two 72-pin SIMM sockets (64 MB maximum), 4 MB ROM, 256 KB level 2 cache, a 1 MB DRAM frame buffer on the logic board, and a 15-inch shadow-mask display with a 12.8-inch viewable image. The full specification is on Macintosh Performa 5200CD.

Revisions

Apple introduced a revised "Rev. B" version a few months after launch, with design changes that are not backward-compatible. Remove the front bezel: if the speakers are part of the bezel it is the original version; if they are attached to the sides of the metal chassis it is Rev. B. The label on the lower rear of the case reads 620-0635 or 620-0835 on the original version and 620-0637 or 620-0837 on Rev. B (pp. 4–5).

Separately, a "version B" logic board has a "B" at the end of the serial number printed near the communications port (pp. 56–57).

Repair Extension Program

Apple ran a Repair Extension Program for system freezes and for sudden changes in video colour hue on the Power Macintosh and Performa 52xx and 53xx, except the 5260 and 5280. Apple's service steps were (pp. 225–230):

Apple's repair extension checks

Check	Fault	Apple's remedy
Clock chip at U10	Not part number 343S1191 or 343S1121 (ignore any letters after the number)	Replace the logic board
Cache/ROM DIMM	Laid out as in Apple's figure, with no sticker on the middle vertical IC	Replace the DIMM, part 661-1278
Ethernet card fence	Does not hook onto the logic board fence, so the card can rock out of the slot and drop the network	Replace the fence
EMI clips	Can damage the board when expansion cards are fitted	Replace them on any machine whose logic board is not being replaced
Internal RGB cable	Sudden or intermittent changes in colour hue	Replace the cable, part 922-2357

If the colour hue is still wrong after the RGB cable has been replaced, Apple replaces the analogue board. Freezes caused by Type 11 errors are a software matter, cured by a clean system install or a third-party software update. Apple's 5XXX/6XXX Tester application checks for the logic board and cache faults but not for the colour hue fault (p. 231).

On a version B logic board with a card in the processor-direct or communications slot, a flashing question mark at startup is a board fault if the chip at U6 has no picture of Texas, is part number 343S0138-a, and there is no wire at U27 on the underside; Apple replaces the board (p. 56).

Open Transport 1.1 does not work on these machines; they need 1.1.1. If installing 1.1.1 reports a hardware issue, Open Transport will not install until the cache/ROM DIMM is replaced under the programme above (p. 7).

Related pages

• Macintosh Performa 5200CD
• Macintosh Performa 5200CD General Maintenance
• Macintosh Performa 5200CD Troubleshooting
• Macintosh Performa 5200CD Capacitor Replacement Guide
• Power Macintosh 6200