@unkno
Thanks. I'll give it a try, see if I can get a TV-out cable in Hong Kong. I suspect I won't be able to unless there's another Nokia model with similar feature... the cable is proprietary for N900 isn't it.... perhaps I can get it shipped out from UK....

Request:
In the meantime can someone screenshot / photo me the boot-up device pin entry screen? If I can get it booting up, I think I can locate my osso-terminal shortcut blind and bring up usb0 and wifi from command line blind, and get data off the device...

Thanks