Macbook screen goes blank depending on its angle?

My macbooks screen goes blank unless it is at a specific angle, is this a cable problem and how much to get repaired?

While it's impossible to diagnose a hardware problem online it is more than likely a bad inverter cable. Go to www.ifixit.com and look up the repair tutorial to see if you'd rather do it yourself.

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Macbook Screen goes blank

This morning I upgraded to iTunes 10.1. I decided to sync my iPhone 3GS running 4.0 OS, and my MacBook Pro screen goes completely black, like its in hibernation. When I disconnect my iPhone it goes back to normal. I'm syncing my iPad right now with no issues, so any assistance would be appreciated.

Hi Beddo,
      Thanks for getting back to me regarding this. Here are details from my system profiler:
Intel HD Graphics:
Chipset Model:          Intel HD Graphics
Type:          GPU
Bus:          Built-In
VRAM (Total):          288 MB
Vendor:          Intel (0x8086)
Device ID:          0x0046
Revision ID:          0x0012
gMux Version:          1.9.21
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution:          1440 x 900
Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display:          Yes
Mirror:          Off
Online:          Yes
Built-In:          Yes
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          256 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0a29
Revision ID:          0x00a2
ROM Revision:          3560
gMux Version:          1.9.21
Displays:
Display Connector:
Display Connector:
Status:          No Display Connected
So it seems I have two graphic cards. The Intel one seems to be active. Could an inactive Nvidia still mess around with the system?
Many thanks,
vnayak

Macbook air issues with osx mavericks - screen goes blank

I have a late 2010 MacBook Air 11". When I open the screen several time during the day, the system hangs and the screen goes blank. I usually have to reboot several times to get the Mac to come back. Any ideas as to what is happening.

The keyboard and trackpad reside on top of the motherboard and all the components of the computer. The keyboard and trackpad are not liquid proof. It is VERY likely that the liquid made its way to the motherboard and has affected those components. If EVER there is liquid spilled on a computer, the last thing you want to do is A. Turn it on to make sure it is working.. and B. Plug it in and charge it. Do the EXACT opposite. Unplug and turn off all power, and, if possible, remove the battery from it. The liquid itself doesnt do the damage...the damage is done when the liquid comes in contact with the circuits and shorts out the contacts and components. You could try to connect to an external monitor, if you have the means to do so, to see if it makes a difference, but it probably will not. I seems that the motherboard is not functioning correctly.

MacBook Pro, randomly Windows 7 doesn't start and screen goes blank

Hi, I installed Windows 7 (Ultimate 64-bit) using the BootCamp on my MacBook Pro (MBP) i7, mid 2010. Installation was successful without any issues. This is my first Mac and, for now, I primarily use Windows on my MBP. The problem: After selecting Windows OS, randomly, Windows doesn't start and the screen goes blank. When this happens, most of the time I have to press the power button twice and press the Option key again to restart in Windows. Sometimes I have to hold down power button for several seconds to turn off MBP, then power it back on to start over. Windows 7 seems to restart on second try every time.
I can tell when the screen will go blank and Windows will not start, when the blinking cursor does not appear on upper left corner of the screen. Also, I enabled Windows OS Boot Log and nothing displays when this happens.
I took in my MBP, twice, to local Apple store Genius Bar and I was told that it was a Windows problem and I must purchase AppleCare Protection Plan to get help resolving the blank screen. It was explained to me that AppleCare had Windows experts who can help with resolving the issue. Therefore I purchased the AppleCare Protection Plan and spoke to AppleCare directly and still no resolution.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

There is a forum specifically for Boot Camp, this is a general MBP forum and most of us don't use Boot Camp or Windows. The link to that forum is:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
Apple does support Boot Camp however if your problem is with Windows Apple does not support a Microsoft product. You would need to contact Microsoft for help.
Roger

My macbook boots up get a screen picture then screen goes blank, when boots up I get the sound then a screen then screen goes black is this a battery problem or something else?

my macbook boots up, I get a screen picture then screen goes blank...I get the start up sound, then a picture, then the screen goes blank but computer is still on..does anyone know what the problem is...do I need a new battery or am i just screwed.

Hello nosaint1961,
It sounds like you are unable to successfully boot your computer to your desktop. I would use the troubleshooting from the following article to help troubleshoot what is happening named:
Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1367
If your computer won't turn on, try each of these steps:
Verify you have a good connection from your Mac to the wall outlet by confirming the power cord and adapter if present are securely connected and plugged in. To check if the wall outlet is working, plug in a lamp or other electrical device.
If the wall outlet is working and you continue to have no power try another power cord or adapter if available. If it works you may need a replacement cord or adapter.
Note: See Apple Portables: Troubleshooting MagSafe adapters for further troubleshooting with MagSafe adapters.
Disconnect all accessories that are plugged in to the computer, such as a printer, hub, or other mobile device.
If your Mac supports user-installable memory, solid state drive, or hard drive, and you recently installed any of these, make sure they are installed correctly and are compatible with your computer. If possible, reinstall the original memory or drive into the computer to find out if the behavior persists afterwards.
MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory
MacBook: How to remove or install memory
Mac Pro: How to remove or install memory
Mac mini: How to remove or install memory
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012): Installing or replacing memory
iMac: How to remove or install memory
Reset the SMC.
If you are still unable to start up your computer after trying each of these steps, visit an Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) for further diagnosis. If you plan to visit an Apple Retail Store, make a reservation at the Genius Bar using http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/ (available in some countries only).Note: Diagnostic fees may apply for issues not covered under warranty or the AppleCare Protection Plan (APP).
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the very best,
Sterling

Help me please i have ipad 3 its screen goes blank white again & again ... last night i try to restart my ipad but after that my ipad is not turning on when i put it on charge there beep coming again & again..

Help me please i have ipad 3 its screen goes blank white again & again ... last night i try to restart my ipad but after that my ipad is not turning on, when i put it on charge there beep coming again & again..

The Basic Troubleshooting Steps are:
Restart... Reset... Restore from Backup... Restore as New...
Restart / Reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Backing up, Updating and Restoring
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
If you try all these Steps and you still have issues... Then a Visit to an Apple Store or AASP (Authorized Apple Service Provider) is the Next Step...
Be sure to make an appointment first...

Screen goes blank for a fraction of a second

hi all,
i just got a macbook pro two weeks ago. I am pretty satisfied with this laptop but since its my first mac experience and i am expecting mac's to be perfect there are a couple of things ( may be minor) that are bothering me.
first is, while working on my mac i have noticed the screen goes blank for a fraction of a second.
second, i have mighty mouse but at times it stops working as well, in the bluetooth menu it shows that my mouse is connected but it won't work, so then i have to disconnect it and connect it back again.
should i take my macbook to apple store or what
any suggestion would be appreciated.
thanks

You can try these steps in case of issues with web pages:
You can reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
*Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
*Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
*Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)
Clear the cache and remove cookies only from websites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
*Firefox/Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
*Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > "Use custom settings for history" > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
*Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
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Screen goes blank with slightest movement of the lid; problem related to hidden sensor

I posted this in the display section but got no answer. Because it's hardware related, I am giving it a try here;
The problem occurs in the following 3 ways:
- Vista: when the lid is moved back and forth a *little* bit, the screen goes blank/black; restore is possible by first closing lid, waiting a few seconds till the lid light dims; then quickly bringing the lid back in position and press any button brings it back to life
- Windows 7: almost identical, exept no button press is needed; this could be a settingin power scheme, I didn't check because it's not so relevant
- Linux: same but no way to bring it back to life again; reboot system is only possibility
This means the magnetic sensor in the bezel that deactivates the system when the lid is closed is still working, but I don't understand why the screen becomes black when it is slightly moved back/forth ? I have read about some sensor hidden behind the hinge depending on the model but very little info how to solve the problem
Could someone explain what is happening and how to find the cause ?

If only I could understand what's going on that would help me A LOT. I understand this is difficult, but there must be some HP expert who knows about this issue. Understanding the problem is the first step.
What could be useful for me to know is where exactly is that sensor, how to locate it, how to test it, what is the module or part to replace it if needed etc.
Here are the notebook and its specs:
http://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-dv7-1299eb-17-core-2-duo-p8600-vista-home-premium-4-gb-ram-...

Screen Goes Blank, Hard Drive Stuck, Cannot Re-Install, or recover

I have somewhat a bizzar problem that even with several years of IT experience I seam not to be able to figure it out. I thought I toss it our here at Toshiba community in hopes of people's collective experience shedding some lights on my problem.
I hava a 3 year old Toshiba Sattellite A305D with updated BIOS to version 2.10. It came with Windows Vista Home 32bit and I had upgraded it to Windows 7 64-bit last Christmas. It was working fine till last month that I started getting sporadic blank screens. Here is the symptome with details: screen goes blank, backlight it on, but there is no content on screen. At this time the Hard Disk Drive activity light is steady lit. Initially the problem happened intermitently and sometimes it fixed itself after few minutes and screen would come back on, but when it started to happen more often, I started to look for some troubleshooting. Some people suggested that blank screen could be due to bad lid close button being stuck or Windows power management's CPU power being set to 5%. I have tried cleaning the lid button and fixing power management but no luck. Then, I tried re-installing Windows from DVD, screen never went blank till after the first few steps of setup to the point that it says "Extracting Windows Files". At this time I started to think this is a hardware issue. I took out the RAM, I installed it on my MacBook Pro and used it for few days, and I had no problem. I even diagnosed them with Windows Memory Checker in the list of Recovery Options and no problem was detected. So, the next suspecious thing was the video card or display inverter. I tried connecting the laptop to an external monitor to test the screen's inverter, and same thing happened and external monitor went blank. I used Windows Recovery options and left it on that screen over night and nothing happened so I concluded the video card is fine. Next, I had turned off the Wifi and Lan, but nothing seamed to change, so I concluded those are OK as well. My last coclusion was that the hard drive is bad. I took the drive out and coonected it to my Desktop PC and ran disk utiility scan to check for bad sectors and none was detected. So, I thought the drive might be totally broken. I went to local electronics store and bought a brand new HITACHI SATA II drive and installed it. At first same thing happened so I gave up. Since I didn't have the recovery disks, I ordered recovery disks from Toshiba and tried that. Save thing happend and as soon as it started copying files, it blanked out. OK. So this time I ran a different recovery option and formatted the entire hard disk and zeroed out all sectors. That took approximately 3 days to finish for a 500GB brand new hard drive. Seams a long time.After that I could install Windows 7 64-bit from scratch up to the end. However, things got gorry again when I started installing Updates and driver packages. I had read about some problems with ATI drivers and Catalyst software with .NET updates, so I did not install any driver from update site and made sure all .NET updates are installed. I had to install the updates slowly chosing a few at a time. Otherwise same thing would happen. I got stuck to the point that I could not update anything. Windows files seamed to be corrupt and turning on/off Windows Features in controll panel was blank, so I had to re-install again. I did Re-install successfully using the upgrade option. This time I installed .NET updates first before any other updates. Then I started downloading all Toshiba drivers. Aazingly, the laptop worked for few ours without the symptom. I managed to install most of the drivers and updates including Value Added Package, HDD/DVD Rom Patch, Registry Patch, Sound, Modem, Atheros Wireless, and Catalyst. Up till now things were ok. Then I ran Toshiba Hardware update patch, and things got really messed up. Windows never booted again and symptoms showed right after boot tried to load WIndows. I tried recovery options but System restore kept getting errors too and I could not restore any more. Since Windows 7 Install and Windows Vistal recovery to Factory Default from recovery disk did not work, I thought maybe I should try Windows XP. So, I got a hold of my old Windows XP CD-ROM and I took a stab at it. Everything went fine till it started to copy windows files. This time symptom was different. I got one of those XP Blue Screen of deaths saying Hard Drive is bad and I must run chdsk /F. So, I concluded HDD is the problem. Ran CHDSK and no problem. I formated the drive again using DISKPART and the problem still exists. This is a brand new hard drive. What is the problem?

Please include your full model number when posting problems on the forums. It can be found on the bottom of your laptop. "A305D" is only partial.
That's quite the problem. How often was it doing this? At some steps in your diagnosing, it seemed to get better, but I wonder if it was actually (temporarily) fixed, or if it didn't occur by chance.
Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you. Normally I'd suggest you get it serviced, but then you'd also be throwing more money at a three year old notebook when clearly you're knowledgeable yourself.
Hopefully someone in the community will have some suggestions. I have noticed that some people shy away from posts with large paragraphs of text. (I'm not saying that's correct, but it happens.) I'd suggest putting some bullet points at the top summarizing. If you feel like doing that, you can edit your message.
Good luck!
- Peter

Satellite A100: Screen goes blank after a while of no action and can't be reactivated

Hi all
I am after a bit of advise/help. I have a satellite A100 & after its been on for an extended period with no keyboard input (like burning dvds), the screen goes blank. It doesn't matter which keys I press I can't make it come back on. The only way out of it that I have found is to restart the machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Gary

Hi,
normally this means the machine is in standby mode (power LED is blinking orange). To reactivate you have to push the power button. Then it should bring back all opened windows as before going into standby.
You can deactivate standby function in the power management. (Start -> control panel -> power management)
Bye

Excel for mac ver14.4.1 screen goes blank when i change to & from full screen view

when i'm working on an excel document, if i am in full screen and hit escape to go non full screen the document goes blank.
if i hit the full screen arrows again, i see my document momentarily and then the screen goes blank again.
i believe this issue began recently after the most recent version update. i must constantly save my documents in case i go in or
out of full screen view and my page goes blank so i don't lose my work. does anyone else have this issue and what can i do about
it? my macbook uses os x ver 10.7.5. not sure if this is an excel problem or an os x problem.
thanks to anyone who can help me figure this out.

Hi，
As your request is relate to Excel for Mac, better to post your issue to the forum below:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac
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IPhone 4 screen goes blank after lock screen

My iPhones screen works perfectly on the lock screen but as soon as i enter the passcode it goes blank.
Its still fully functional in terms of recieving calls, vibrating, screenshotting etc. but what could i do to fix it.
I've already tried reseting the settings by holding the home and sleep button at the same time.
What else can I do?

I'm sorry, but this makes no sense. What do you mean by "screenshotting"? How can you tell anything is working if the screen goes blank after you enter the passcode?
If a reset didn't fix it, try a restore. If that doesn't fix it, restore it as a new device.

IPhone Screen Goes Blank

While making a phone call, when I take the phone away from my ear, the screen goes blank and I cannot end call or see call waiting - finally the screen comes back to slide to unlock, and the phone call is ended.
Anyone else having this issue? Any fixes?

WOW! So that's what the issue is!
Petshows, since getting my 3G last Friday I've been plagued by the same problem. It's been so chronic I suspected a fault in the iPhone itself. My first gen unit never exhibited this behavior so I was on my way to the Apple Store tomorrow to report it to the techs at the Genius Bar. But...
...I'm now convinced that Nathan C. has identified the source of the problem. I use a DLO brand "Jam Jacket" I bought for my original iPhone. It has little cut outs at the top for the position of the proximity sensor and the earpiece. I now suspect that either the 3G proximity sensor is less sensitive or its position is slightly different from the first model and it isn't aligning properly any more.
To test out Nathan C.'s hypothesis, I made a call long enough for the 3G screen to go dark. Lifting it away from my ear, I verified that it was not waking up as it should. I then flexed the upper part of the Jam Jacket's case to reposition the proximity sensor cut out and VOILA! the iPhone screen wakes and I can press the Hang Up button as usual. Now my only issue is whether to modify the cut outs and continue using this case or buy one that avoids the source of the problem.

N80 SCREEN GOES BLANK

Hi everyone im new here .....anyway lets go stairght to the topic.
i own a nokia N80 (11)
firmware:v 5.0719.0.2
The problem is everytime slode open my phone the screen goes blank for about 7 to 10 sec and then it returns back to its normal state,note this i also encounter nonresponsive down arrow key while the flip is open....
can anyone please shed some on this,.......

11-Sep-200701:08 PM
ken80ny wrote:
, I think it would be frustrating if in the coming years of owning a N80 requires you a frequent visit to Nokia Care Center to celebrate your phone's annivesary!
Pathetic,
11-Sep-200701:08 PM
ken80ny wrote:
Hence, I strongly urge every N80 owners to speak up to Nokia to step up the quality of the ribbon supplied and provide long term solution for these type of failure in future. Nokia should give free repair if the matter got bigger. Agree?
Hell yeah.
11-Sep-200701:08 PM
ken80ny wrote:
If you feel my frustration because you are experiencing the same problem that I faced, let Nokia feel it too!

My ipad 3 screen goes blank randomly

i have owned my new ipad 16gb (3rd gen) for 3 months and for 2 months it worked great with only having a couple of crashes, but then the screen started going randomly blank. I thought it may just need a reset but it started doing it again and again no matter what your doing apps video email everything. When the screen goes blank the backlight is still on if you had any sound playing you can still hear it with no image? To get the screen back on i press the wake/sleep button to switch the screen off then the button again to get the unlock screen back, then as soon as i unlock it returns me to what i was doing before the screen went. Its in repair at the moment having just come back from repaire last week but apple repaire couldnt find anything wrong with there service. Has anyone else had this problem?

go to settings>general>autolock and see what you have it set to. see if setting it to a higher time or never helps you out.
you don't happen to have a magnet on your right wrist do you? you might be triggering the ipad smart cover sleep with it.
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