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Or, you could go with as big a hard disk as you could find, and use an external CD drive for those presumably infrequent occasions when you'd have wanted to use SCSI disk mode. You'd likely want a burner in any case, and since internal burners for the 3400 are extremely rare and expensive, you'd want an external CD drive for that reason alone.
Just a thought.
I could never keep track of which models need a working pram battery to boot, which ones will hang if the pram battery is half-flat, and which ones don't care.
I do believe that a completely dead pram batt will still allow the 3400 to boot, but I am not 100% sure -- I'm relying on memory, and that's a shaky thing.
You could simply leave it plugged in to charge the pram battery and try again in a day or so, or you could disassemble that puppy and disconnect the battery and try to boot that way. Since disassembly requires more steps, perhaps you'll want to try plan A first.
I do believe that a completely dead pram batt will still allow the 3400 to boot, but I am not 100% sure -- I'm relying on memory, and that's a shaky thing.
You could simply leave it plugged in to charge the pram battery and try again in a day or so, or you could disassemble that puppy and disconnect the battery and try to boot that way. Since disassembly requires more steps, perhaps you'll want to try plan A first.
Apparently the Lithium Ion battery still holds a charge. About 3-5 minutes of being plugged in gives a minute of battery life. The instant the computer is plugged in it turns on, automatically. The reset switch turns it off. Trying to reset the PRAM doesn't work. Also, an orange strip is present on the left side of the screen and has gotten progressively bigger. Please do help :-/
You've got some troubleshooting to do.
Disassemble the unit -- it's not hard (IIR, just a few screws, and the whole thing comes apart).
Carefully inspect the area around the pram battery. Quite often, the battery has started to leak its guts all over the board. If the problem has not advanced too far, then a good clean might restore health.
Verify that the ram card is seated properly. It's not held in place particularly well, and so it could have worked loose during shipping. Try booting without the ram card to eliminate the latter as a source of trouble.
Generally, just perform a careful visual inspection. Quite often, that's all that is needed to find the problem.
Disassemble the unit -- it's not hard (IIR, just a few screws, and the whole thing comes apart).
Carefully inspect the area around the pram battery. Quite often, the battery has started to leak its guts all over the board. If the problem has not advanced too far, then a good clean might restore health.
Verify that the ram card is seated properly. It's not held in place particularly well, and so it could have worked loose during shipping. Try booting without the ram card to eliminate the latter as a source of trouble.
Generally, just perform a careful visual inspection. Quite often, that's all that is needed to find the problem.
yeah, I will, I honestly have problems while working with laptops as the "ribbon" cables are so easily torn. Most of the screws are missing from the system so repair probably has been attempted. I am slightly angry at how it was shipped: one little sheet of tiny bubble wrap! The case was open when I got it, as was the box. The auction did say it wasn't working, though.
There is no corrosion and the computer still exhibits the same behaviors when it is unattached.
/edit/ this is my cheap bulleted list:
-The computer powers on the instant it's plugged in.
-The Power light doesn't do anything
-The PRAM will not reset.
-The power manager won't reset.
-problems still occur if the PRAM battery is removed.
-the reset switch turns the computer off.
-ctr-cmd-Power resets the computer
-the behavior doesn't improve when plugged in to an external monitor
-no disk activity continues past the chime (the chime is very short)
/edit/ this is my cheap bulleted list:
-The computer powers on the instant it's plugged in.
-The Power light doesn't do anything
-The PRAM will not reset.
-The power manager won't reset.
-problems still occur if the PRAM battery is removed.
-the reset switch turns the computer off.
-ctr-cmd-Power resets the computer
-the behavior doesn't improve when plugged in to an external monitor
-no disk activity continues past the chime (the chime is very short)
Congrats! Wat did u have to do to get it to boot?
It might be as easy as a loose connector or two -- for keyboard, trackpad and display. Just do a careful looksee around them there parts and you might be able to fix it quickly.
And finding a good-sized hard drive for that 3400 shouldn't be too hard. Just about any IDE laptop drive will do -- even the thick ones. You're also lucky that you have a full 144MB of RAM. It's very expensive memory, so you definitely made out like a bandit!
I don't know what did it. Right at the moment it's returned to sitting there dumbly. I really can't use such a laptop, so I am looking for replacement parts.
If I can't get it to work period I might sell the RAM, which is not the source of the problem (the RAM works great).
/edit/ and oh my, the RAM is very expensive
If I can't get it to work period I might sell the RAM, which is not the source of the problem (the RAM works great).
/edit/ and oh my, the RAM is very expensive
