My Macbook Pro boots up with a blank screen.
It's as if there is no power to the screen at all? The lights behind the keyboard work fine, and the volume buttons are fine too, just a blank screen. Is there anything I can do?
Following :-
I have the same problem - completely nothing at all on the screen, is working fine with external monitor (am using it now!)
Diagnostics show passed
Graphics/Displays shows :-
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0863
Revision ID: 0x00b1
ROM Revision: 3448
Displays:
Display Connector:
Status: No Display Connected
SyncMaster:
Resolution: 1440 x 900 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-Bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Hardware overview shows :-
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,4
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP53.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.49f2
Serial Number (system): W8933J377XJ
Hardware UUID: B6080469-1D89-51E5-BE61-069BC117FCF7
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Any pointers bar "take it to Apple store" appreciated (it's out of warantee)
Thanks regards Graham
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Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: C720018D-ED30-41E2-B39A-CEAAB6847A2A
Fri May 20 19:31:07 2011
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xa7cc8f): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0x0a2910de 0x00100000 0x00000000, BAR0 0xc0000000 0xa617b000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
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0xb9a2b8d8 : 0xa7cc8f (0xc9223c 0xd02840 0xca13cc 0x0)
0xb9a2b978 : 0xb975d3 (0xdc95404 0xe7a3004 0x100 0xb9a2ba48)
0xb9a2b9c8 : 0xb8e5cc (0xe7a3004 0x100 0xb9a2b9f8 0xa6c76c)
0xb9a2b9f8 : 0x176e965 (0xe7a3004 0x100 0x438004ee 0x2b0a6c)
0xb9a2bb38 : 0xbb6250 (0xe7a3004 0xe7a4004 0x0 0x0)
0xb9a2bb78 : 0xa85e23 (0xe7a3004 0xe7a4004 0x0 0x0)
0xb9a2bc18 : 0xa82502 (0x0 0x9 0x0 0x0)
0xb9a2bdc8 : 0xa843d1 (0x0 0x600d600d 0x702a 0xb9a2bdf8)
0xb9a2be98 : 0xa18582 (0xc1d00015 0xaa910001 0x20802040 0xb9a2bee0)
0xb9a2bef8 : 0xdd84eb (0xe1de400 0xb9a2bf4c 0x0 0x7)
0xb9a2bf58 : 0xdd8696 (0xe1e2600 0xddfb54 0xb9a2bf78 0x2a358d)
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dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0xa09000
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dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0xa09000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x9e7000
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Thanks,
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