Strange depending on the source you look for, there are entries for a 190C when searched on Google and elsewhere. I also have a (dead-non working) 190C with a big red sticker saying PowerPC Ready. I'm thinking that the 190C is rare since many owners upgraded them to PowerPC 5300C's. It was a simpler upgrade to make as one just upgrades the logic board and not the logic board and LCD to make a 190CS into a 5300C. But that is neither here nor there.
Snake88USA - you should have mentioned first those details you mentioned later. I would have given more details on it than just the generic info I have posted. Your machine, it seems, was a 5300 at one time, had a failure of some kind and had its motherboard replaced with a 190. Such repairs are known but are not Apple approved because you are "downgrading" the machine. Now, what else does this machine has? RAM, HD, screen, etc.?
And the 190s had the "glass" for the IR but not the module itself unless it was installed by the Apple Tech at the store it was bought. So it looked like all 190s had it but didn't. Apple, in its bright mind, thought it could sell the IR as a cheap add-on thinking that everyone would get it. They were wrong. Thus my two 190s have the IR Glass but not the module.
But the 190 is still a great machine no matter what configuration you ended up with.
Snake88USA - you should have mentioned first those details you mentioned later. I would have given more details on it than just the generic info I have posted. Your machine, it seems, was a 5300 at one time, had a failure of some kind and had its motherboard replaced with a 190. Such repairs are known but are not Apple approved because you are "downgrading" the machine. Now, what else does this machine has? RAM, HD, screen, etc.?
And the 190s had the "glass" for the IR but not the module itself unless it was installed by the Apple Tech at the store it was bought. So it looked like all 190s had it but didn't. Apple, in its bright mind, thought it could sell the IR as a cheap add-on thinking that everyone would get it. They were wrong. Thus my two 190s have the IR Glass but not the module.
So that explains how I was able to recently boot a 1400cs with a CF used as a hard drive on my 5300ce. I had my suspicions. Now to figure out why my 5300ce seems to be faster than my 1400cs of the same speed. I'm suspecting something as done with the bus speed.
But the 190 is still a great machine no matter what configuration you ended up with.