Here's an update. After days of not being able to power up my 3400c at all -- no chime, no lights, nothing -- I reckoned there might be a funky component on the motherboard or elsewhere, so I set the thing out in the sun, bottom up, on a 100 degree day and let it cook. When I plugged it again and hit the reset button on the back, it fired up! But without extensions. Also, the icons on the desktop won't open by double clicking, and don't deselect if I click on a second icon. In other words, it acts as though the shift key is down. I removed the keyboard completely and plugged in an external keyboard. It still acts as though the shift key is down. I fired it up without any keyboard. Same thing.
I think there is a funky component on the motherboard and/or in the input buss area. I've reached the end of my expertise -- and rope.
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I um, er, hmmm...I would *never* have thought of that as a repair technique, personally.
It's sort of on the order of having car that won't start and fixing it by lighting it on fire, or taking a sledge hammer to the doors.
I'm rather astonished that the screen works, as LCD's are considerably more heat sensitive than the rest of the circuitry, or that it boots at *all*. You probably took the interior of that powerbook up to 150-180 degrees, and left it there for a long time....
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