Display turns off after opening MacBook

This morning when I opened my Macbook, the screen came on to the password login, but not even three seconds later turned off. I closed it and opened it again and it did the same. I have tried restarting the computer multiple times, but nothing has worked. I was just using my Mac nit even 12 hours before and it was working fine.
I have a 2008 MacBook and run Snow Leopard.

Im surfing this kinda of problemes. Its insteresting your computer turn on the screen after restart, but there no much good news for us in here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1478474&tstart=0

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    Im surfing this kinda of problemes. Its insteresting your computer turn on the screen after restart, but there no much good news for us in here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1478474&tstart=0

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