Nevermind, some 'persuasive techniques' managed to get it working fine

Well, I've found issue number two; the pismo seems to be fine with DVDs, but it refuses to do anything with CDs, kinda obliterating my hopes of Jaguar. Has anybody experienced one …

Curses, I was hoping to avoid that... Anybody know a good source for pismo batteries?

You have taken all of the normal steps to revive a dead battery. Regrettably, it is no more. It is pining for the fjords. It is an ex-battery. Re-celling a lithium-ion battery is …

LiIons are a pain. I've got some for my 3400 and 2400 that still hold at least an hour's charge, and several for Lombards/Pismos/iBooks that are dead as hell. I'm pretty sure that…

I just got myself a Pismo (poke around conquests ), and my only problem with it is that the battery is flat as a board. It shows up as empty and fully charged; if I pull it out …

Read the help doc and found out that when the vga monitor is hooked up a to a monitor, a dialog box shows up in the monitor and sound panel. The powerbook is not seeing the monitor…

Just one thing - remember that VGA port on the 3400 only allows mirroring - you cannot run an extended desktop on any PowerBook 3400.

Additionally, sometimes turning the machine on at an angle and holding down the trackpad button is required for a 'gravity assist'.

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No luck. It looks like he deleted some control panels. Will re-install 8.6.1

Depending on what System you're running, try checking the "PowerBook Display" or "Monitors and Sound" control panels to see if anything is available there. Also, the "Video Mirrori…

How do you get the VGA port going? Is there a setup or function key to press?

I just took apart one of the G3 AIOs that was arcing particularly violently. I blew everything out with canned air and jiggled the analog board a little bit and now, so far at leas…

Doh! I wished I had thought of that....

It is probably a combination of what Unknown_K said and the fact that I think the "remaining time" shown while its plugged in is time until fully charged.

Are Lombard batteries anything like Wallstreet ones? On a Wallstreet the lights on the battery are on when it is charging and when fully charged they go out. You could have issues…

No need to stick anything inside the drive in most cases. Just hold the mouse/trackpad button down and then start 'er up. Keep it held down until it spits it out (takes some time, …

Tweezers? Try taking the disk out with a pair of them.

...or just hold the trackpad button down -- an external mouse isn't a requirement, AFAIK. The trackpad button method has saved my bacon many a time.

Ok, the Lombard works as long as I don't make it overheat. For learning PHP/MySQL it's pretty good and runs cool. I ran it off of battery for a few hours yesterday, leaving it id…

Try plugging in a mouse and holding the button through startup, this is Apples force eject protocol for these drives.

I ask this on behalf of my uncle, who needs this drive fixed by the evening... He's got a CD-ROM stuck in his slot-loading CD drive (without a paper clip eject button). The drive …

A little patience and this was the solution :b&w: Newton now back in action. Thank you all very much. Michael Remove the battery and power for a little while, the…