Original macbook sceen fades out to balck then it sleeps.

So i got the original macbook from when they first shipped out the intel processors. It's a core due 1.8 ghz.
The other day, all of a sudden, the macbook started to shut off it's backlight and the sceen fades then it falls asleep.
Sometime you can see that the OS is working even when the backlight shuts off, but even then, that fades and it goes immediately to sleep.
No matter the case, it always goes to sleep, even during a boot up, what's funny is that it would continue the boot up sequence when i wake it up.
I could tell that it's assleep because of the light in the front and the hard drive also gets parked.
Please help.
What can i do on my own to fix it, and if it is a hard ware problem, what parts could i buy or how much would it cost to fix on my own or how much would it cost for apple to fix it?
Thanks a mil.
<3 Ryan

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