On 11/03/04 16:37, "John W. Travis MD (Jack)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I noticed my daughter's Pismo 400/128 (OS 9.2) was flashing the sleep light
> but the apple was lit. I opened it to find a blue screen and the HD running.
> 
> Did a restart with Cmd-Ctl-Pwr and screen  turned mostly white with a
> gradient edge to the blue in the upper and right corners.
> 
> Had to pull the battery and power cord to stop it (I forgot about reset
> button). 
> 
> On restart I get a chime, HD spins up, but only one brief sound of any head
> movement. Screen stays black and the external monitor I plugged in also
> doesn't light up.
> 
> I then remembered the reset switch, held it in for 10 seconds and then
> restarted. This time the HD cycled through a normal bootup, but both screens
> remain black. I'm guess the video section has fried, but don't know much
> about it--like is it separate from the motherboard? Any ideas from these
> symptoms would be much appreciated.
> 
> I have another pismo I can swap parts with to isolate the component, but
> that board looks pretty buried.

Unfortunately, the video subsystem is part of the motherboard, so you would
have to swap the motherboards which means completely disassembling the
Pismo.

-Laurent.
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