IMac Screen issue! Yea, what's new? Is there a difinitive answer?

My father in-laws iMac (15") has a totally black screen. When you power it up you can hear the start up tone but no picture what so-ever. Here's the important part of this issue (besides the fact that it's not working properly)... I got to get it fixed or he's going back to the PC world! HELP! He's 79 and is in no way going to change over that quickly. The iMac has been effortless and easy up to this point.
M

Sorry, no definitive answer and sometimes this really is terminal. Have a read of the ideas in this post: (link). 
regards
mrtotes

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