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.
Actually it's more like smacking a carburetor on the side to free up the stuck float.
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....
The LCD was on the underside and didn't get that hot. When I was doing electronic field repair work (on automated baseball batting cages) I often came across termperature sensitive components. I figured the 3400c was dead anyhow and radical action couldn't make it any deader! I was as surprised as a Florida democrat when it fired up.
Dan
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