Help!  My Mac screen is not responding!

This morning I turned on my mac and it suddenly powered down. At first I thought it had gone to sleep but the screen is not responding. I checked the contrast, tried hooking up to power, taking out the battery, force shutting down and restarting, resetting the Pram, doing a safe boot and hooking it up via firewire to another mac. None of this helped. I can hear the fans running and the sleep light is still on but nothing else seems to be working. I am traveling so I can't get to mac store for a while but I need the computer. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi Living Motion,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Have you tried resetting the SMC? To do so, disconnect the power cord, shut the computer off, take out the battery and hold the power button down for 7 seconds. Reinstall the battery and AC cord and turn the computer on. There's an outside shot that may fix it.
If not, the fact that the computer won't mount in FireWire Target Disk Mode is suspicious. It implies that your computer has experienced a large hardware failure -- not just the display. I would take the computer to your local Apple store and they'll probably ship it off for repairs.

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