Hello! This powerbook, hobbling along on one good leg, is finally working reliably. It need a few things yet to be 100% but it works finally. It was indeed a chain of things gone wrong. The Adaptor was indeed screwed up. With the help of an 800 number call to APPLE (Thanks, Larry Hill!). A replacement adaptor was Purred out the next day. Also the battery is dead, so it was frustrating to get power to the thing to trouble shoot. Also the 2 gig drive is damaged too. Will start the boot up sequence but won't continue. And the 14" TFT LCD monitor has damaged connector pins so was delivering a scrambled image. The other Passive Matrix monitor seems overexposed and kind of burned in at the same time. And with some inaccessible software settings (we couldn't see what was going on!) there was a seemingly impossible but tantalizingly solvable puzzle. So it was indeed a whole slew of different things. The bezel and ribbons are good on the 14" TFT, but I would like to replace the display portion of the screen, and find a new battery and CD drive, though these things aren't urgent The Powerbook will draw to an exterior monitor, so when I can hack together some kind of desk arrangement, I can replace the Performa for the kids. And I have a spare motherboard and power adaptor card to sell to disperse some costs. I am optimistic at this point. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. __________<http://home.golden.net/~samu>__________ _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/