Macbook backlight gone??

Banjaxed82

Got up yesterday morning. Opened lid of macbook and their was no light. When I lowered the brightness to nothing then back up again, it would illuminate, but over the last 24 hours or so things have gotten gradually worse.

It was remaining illuminated at 50% brightness, but now it's at the point were it will only illuminate for half a second and that's it.

I've rebooted, taken out battery, reset the pram, etc, etc.

The macbook is just over 2 years old. I've never opened it up or added anything to it. This is just something out of the blue. Ideas? Any thoughts as I type away on the brand new macbook my missus owns?

MiniNukinfuts

Have you tried to reinstall the OS? Have you tried to install all recent updates?

Banjaxed82

Thanks for the reply. Updated but made no difference.

Here's the thing though: I noticed that if I flick between brightness down and brightness up really quickly that it will remain illuminated.

Currently I have the brightness at 100% for the last 5-10 mins. Hasn't gone blank yet. I'm waiting for when it does, but does this point more towards software or loose connection issue as opposed to failing backlight?

MiniNukinfuts

Here is an apple forum discussion on what i think your problem is. Have you tried safe booting OSX? by holding the shift key on boot.

Sad Professor

Disconnect all peripherals and boot from the install disc - see if the problem exists there as well.

This sounds like a backlight problem to me.