on 08/05/04 13:14, Dan Colwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > Late last night my Pismo slipped from my grasp onto my hardwood floor. > Landed sideways on a corner of the lid. Popped the lid and DVD open. What a > sick feeling.... > Good News: it started up again, nothing physically broken. > Bad News: blank screen, big gouge on top. > > I waited for the hard drive to stop making noise and assumed I was at > the opening dialogue. I typed the first letter of my startup name and then > my password and it seems to be running OK. I'm at work now with nothing but > PC's around. Tonight I'll try either Target mode with my desktop or the > external screen with my TV and verify everything is running (except of > course my display). > What should I look for as the reason for the blank display? (besides my > clumsiness....). I have installed a hard drive and airport card and am not > afraid to open it up but not very experienced with this kind of thing. A > disconnected wire? Maybe just false hope here but if any suggestions please > reply direct to me or send a cc as I am on digest mode.
Might be the LCD inverter board, but I don't have any prior experience of this problem. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fandango on core n.: [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc(3) arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'. On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
