Black Screen - Tried Everything. Broken?

I put my intel iMac to sleep last night. This morning, I go to wake it up, and it makes all the right sounds, but nothing displays on the screen. It is pitch black.
I've tried rebooting, clearing the PRAM, booting into the restore DVD and completely powering the iMac off and then back on. Nothing has worked, the screen is still pitch black.
Is it safe to say that it is broken and I need to get my iMac serviced?
Thanks.

hi,
i experienced the black screen today on my 24" imac
i tried everything and while searching i found this thread.
well, i put the imac into target disk mode and connected my ibook... unfortunately, i don't have the capacity to backup my data but was nice to see my files/folders.
i disconnected the imac and left it powered on.
a few minutes later the firewire screen saver was being displayed on my imac's screen!!!
i turned it off and powered it up again with no problems.
we had to leave so i powered off the imac and when i returned, over a hour later, and powered it up - no joy.
so, back to target disk mode and waited for the firewire screen saver to kick in.
once the screen saver kicked in i turned off and powered up again.
i'm writing this while i'm backing up my files/folders to an external drive!!!
i hope this helps someone.
i plan to reinstall the OS from scratch and go from there... i had been downloading installing software the last few days so i'm hoping for some kind of software conflict.
if it continues i'll bring it in for repair.
applecare anyone - lol????
joel

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