[Ti] Forcing 400 to use external screen

[John]

> I auired a 400 with a broken screen.  When it boots, it is using the 
> external as a second and I cant get to the menus. Is there a way to 
> force it to use the external screen or cause it to use the external as 
> the main?

Well, this may take some trial and error, but do the following:

Boot the machine

Do an

option F2 (option plus one of the brightness keys)

and once the monitors control panel starts up, try to get the cursor on 
the good screen. Once that is accomplished, attempt to locate the title 
bar of the monitors control panel on the Ti's screen. At this point, 
you can drag that control panel to the good display, and switch the 
menubar to the good screen. in Panther, the screen starts up nearly all 
the way to the top of the screen, and in the middle (from side to 
side).

This is really the best I could think of. Perhaps someone with an 
identical model/OS could save their prefs file and send it to you, as I 
assume you can at least browse files.

You can also try hitting "detect displays", which should be the key 
shortcut

command F2

This may or may not cycle through the display options properly.

Good luck!