Black out display BACK ON

Hey everyone, my wife's iBook has had the lost display for two weeks now. My wife described the screen as looking like it shorted out and has been black ever since. We were stressed out because my iBook's harddrive is full, and we were moving all of our pictures and music to her iBook when this happened. I figured it was the dreaded logic board/display thing, so I was looking at the MB and MBP (I'm going to get one anyway soon). I thought I'd search the forums a little more in case there was anything I could do, and was just ready to reset the PMU (or at least I was trying to figure out how to) because the computer also hasn't been sleeping correctly since the display went out so I thought maybe it was something else.
I was going to link the computers via the ethernet to save as much music and pictures on flash drives as possible. We had been able to do this for the last two weeks, but today, my computer wouldn't network with hers, so I did a hard reset once (had also tried this before and even though computer restarted, screen stayed black), and the hard drive sounded like it was skipping (didn't sound like it normally does when going through restarting process). So I did another hard reset during this noise, and the computer rebooted again with the chime and THE SCREEN CAME BACK ON!! WEIRD!!! Has anything like this happened to any of you????

It sounds like you may be having logic board problems. You may know that enough dual USB G3 iBooks suffered from this problem that Apple began the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program in January of 2004. Check out the FAQ page and if the symptoms look familiar, give Apple a call. If your iBook qualifies, it's a free fix. (It's not unusual for an iBook suffering from this specific logic board problem to restart normally after a period of rest.)
If you are past the three-year time limit, try calling and asking for Customer Relations (NOT Customer Service--they can't help you) and ask them to please make an exception to the three-year limit in your case.
In order to back up files, you may want to try using FireWire Target Disk Mode to back up her files if your other computer is a Mac with FireWire capability.
Good luck!

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