Hi All,
Yes I have one of these that has been working fine up until a week ago, and a much newer Macbook.
The 3.1 was used on battery power alone for quite a while one day recently, nothing unusual happened, then plugged into the mains.
Screen goes black after an ever shorter time. Started doing it after a couple of minutes. now down to 20 secs.
Everything is still running, just a black screen. I can get it to light up by restarting to see what's going on, then: lights out.
System report:
Battery reads 102 cycles (low, but it has been nearly always plugged into mains)
Condition: Normal
Charging: No.
Holding 4559 mAh out of 4600 ish max capacity
Amperage: 0 mA
Voltage: 12478 mV
Is it worth putting a new battery in and seeing if that fixes it, or doing some resets first?
cheers, DL
Thanks Brad,
It's definitely still alive as I alluded to.
Goes black, press power off, press S as in sleep option that I obviously can't see on the screen, wait about 5 secs till it audibly takes a nap the press power on. All good for about 15 secs then lights out again.
thanks, DL
Anyone at all out there who has a clue about this problem please?
DL
Do the fans spool up loud?
I believe I read somewhere that the graphics cards could have issues on these. They aren't very hard to pull apart. The GFX cards can get dirty contacts after time.
You may find some help here. Grab your model number and check it out.
MacBook Core 2 Duo - iFixit
JayTee
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JayTee
Nullus Anxietus
Getting involved in discussions is the best way to learn.
2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
If you can see the image how can you possibly blame the graphics card? The graphics card drives the panel and renders the image. The backlight makes it visible.
The image is visible so a logical deduction would be the backlight. Next step is find out if it's LED or CCFL. It's unusual for a led to behave like that, but not at all unusual for an aged CCFL or its inverter.
Because it's a well known issue with these devices. Admittedly so is the backlight. I've fixed one or two, including reflows on the logic board. I've never had to replace a display. But whatever. Take it apart. Clean the GFX card contacts as they will need it, do the same thing with the display connectors and see. No point getting into a ****ing contest over it.
JayTee
Nullus Anxietus
Getting involved in discussions is the best way to learn.
2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
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