Screen Display going black on start.

My Macbook(2008) screen goes black as it starts, i can hear it is still on but screen is off. If I reboot from power botton screen displays again for few seconds and goes blank. Can some one tell me what is this and what i should do for this.Thanks.

Could you provide some essential information firstly?
It would be useful to know what notebook model and what system do you have exactly.
Did you check the notebook in connection with external monitor?
If not do that. It would be interesting to know if something would be visible on 2nd screen while internal screen is black.

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