Brian put in his cheery two cents: > For what it's worth, this (for me) is the way pb100's seem to die. It's > like the contrast is "stuck" all the way up, right? All the pixels on the > display are "on". Brightness works OK. I have 2 in a drawer that did > this.
And proposed that a transcontinental journey at the mercies of UPS might joggle it back to life. Personally I suspect the USPS might do this job more effectively, but in either case a solid dropkick would be more exhilarating. And a little more encouragingly Kenta suggested: > what if you trashes the new system aswell ? a blank screen used to be > the result of a ID conflict - but i do not think that is possible > with a startup disk. Hook it up as a docked SCSI - save what you need > of the files and programs on the docked disk and lowlevelformat, > writes zeros , zap and rebuild the desktop and install again from > scratch? I'll give this a try (assuming it can be persuaded to dock again), but without much hope of success -- since nothing appears on the screen even when the PB is booted off a floppy, it seems pretty likely that the problem is in the hardware. My hunch is something amiss with the screen cable: it's right next to the PMCIA slot, and the ethernet card connection was the flaky actor in the first place, and the card has been doing a regular pas de deux in and out of the slot for the past several days. Thanks all! Best, Victoria -- Pacem in terris: Viva la France! -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
