So last night I came home to find my entire desk covered in water, surrounding my MacBook pro, apparently my window had been cracked during a down pouring of rain! My laptop will turn on but the screen remains blank! Can it be fixed?
Any advice? Hoping I can bring it into the apple store to have looked at? Anyone with similar experience?
You will most likely need a logicboard replacement which is $400+. Your HDD may be damaged, another couple hundred, and possibly the screen. If the bill is anywhere near $800, I recommend saving for a new machine, and seeing how many files Apple can recover from your old HDD.
Similar Messages
-
After downloading the latest version of iTunes, the store will not load. It appears as if it has loaded, but the screen remains blank.
I have the same problem and have been fighting with it for several days. I think the last thing that I did before this happened was to let Quicktime update itself. When I open itunes and click on store, the connecting bar gets halfway and then stops. That leaves me with the white store page, if I leave it alone for a bit, I see words as in names of singers and but no pictures.
I have ran the diagnostics and see no problems at all, no event logs in windows, no errors at all. I've un-installed itunes and re-installed but no change. I'm using Norton 360 from comcast. I have windows 7 pro 64 bit. Also, the help in itunes doesn't display.
I put in a ticket with apple and the response I got back basically told me to do what I've already done. I created a new user and have the same issue.
Any help at all will be very much appreciated. I think this started August. 8, 2011.
thanks so much for reading -
My 2008 MacBook Pro will turn on but the screen is black. It makes the sound when it turns on but nothing afterwards. Can someone plz help me.
Why not post here https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
You are more likely to get an answer -
My computer turns on and the light at the botton is on, but the screen is blank. I have tried pressing every button, turning it on/off, and also pressing the mouspad.
I have the same problem, the start up sound plays through the speakers but nothing on the screen
-
My 2008 MacBook Pro is turning on but the screen stays black. It makes the turning on noise but nothing happens after that. Can anyone tell me what wrong with it and maybe help me out??
Make a PRAM reset > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 Also, reset the SMC > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
If they don't work, that may be a display or GPU issue. Take your MacBook Pro to an Apple Store or reseller. If you want to know which is the part, connect an external display -
Hello.
I recently woke up this morning to use my iPod Touch (2nd Gen) to find that it was completely unresponsive to both buttons and would not turn on. I had been using it the night before and had not charged it. Thinking the battery was drained, I plugged it into a wall outlet for two hours, and still no sign of life on the iPod. Plugging it into the computer, it immediately showed up in iTunes and synced normally, and even indicated it had nearly a full charge. Still, however, the screen showed nothing. I checked the lock and home buttons to see if it was stuck, but it was not. Does anyone have an idea of what this is? Do I need to get my iPod repaired? Any help would be appreciated.
I am running iOS 4.1, and am out of warranty coverage.
Thanks,
- Justin1; Do a hard rest by holding the buttons at least 15 seconds. Does the Apple logo come on?
2. Hold the power button down for at least 5 seconds. Do you see the battery symbol?
If the answer is no to both questions, you most likely have a hardware issue--possible bad battery.
Basic troubleshooting steps
17" 2.2GHz i7 Quad-Core MacBook Pro 8G RAM 750G HD + OCZ Vertex 3 SSD Boot HD
Got problems with your Apple iDevice-like iPhone, iPad or iPod touch? Try Troubleshooting 101
In Memory of Steve Jobs -
TS1382 ipod will play music but the screen is blank
The ipod will play music but I can not see the screen. It remains blank.
By blank I assume you mean completely white is that correct?
If none of the usual 5 R's of troubleshooting do any good, you'll need to have the iPod either serviced or replaced as the LCD screen or ribbon cable is damaged or faulty.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/nano3gen/
B-rock -
Ever since I downloaded/installed the ICloud IOS5 I can not use the camera icon on my Ipod. I can click on the icon, the screen will lighten just a little but it is not letting me see what is in the camera view. Any one else have this problem or know how I can fix it?
Make an appointment at the genius bar are your nearest Apple store. At this point there is nothing you can do without a computer, so if you don't have one and don't know anyone who has one that you can use the Apple store is a good fallback.
-
what should I do?
Take it in for assessment:
Genius reservation http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
on-line https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action -
Equium A300D-16C turns on but the screen shows nothing/stays black
Hi there, I have a Toshiba Equium A300D-16C laptop.
It was fine until now...
When I press the power button, my laptop turns on but the screen remains black / off.
HDD indicator doesn't flash or anything ... ( in case this helps )
I've also tried to remove the battery, hold the power button for 30s and plug the power cord back in... Same thing laptop turns on but screen is black.
I tried to connect my laptop to my PC's monitor using HDMI cable but no success... Laptop turned on but my pc's monitor was showing nothing.
I haven't changed anything inside my laptop or unscrewed it.
PS:
I quite often kept my laptop on the bed/pillow so it may have something to do with overheating or something.
How did I get to this point:
Yesterday my laptop was fine, there was nothing wrong with it... I switched it off at night but when I tried to switch it back on this morning that's where I faced this problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Rejanu.Hello
> I tried to connect my laptop to my PC's monitor using HDMI cable but no success... Laptop turned on but my pc's monitor was showing nothing.
Its very good that you have this test with an external monitor because so you could make sure its not related to internal monitor and its working properly.
Well, you have tried a lot so my personal opinion is its a serious hardware malfunction It could be related to mainboard or CPU in my opinion
I think such hardware diagnostic can only be done from an authorized service provider. I think you should contact the guys. They can help you to get rid of this problem :) -
My iPod touch will not power on.; The charger is plugged in but the screen is blank.
My iPod Touch will not power on. charger is plugged in but the screen is blank.
Hello Dennisom,
The troubleshooting detailed below can help get your iPod Touch to charge.
If your battery doesn't charge, or if your device shows a low-battery image, black screen, or "accessory not supported" alert, follow these steps.
Inspect the connector at the bottom of the phone:
Make sure that there are no bent pins in the connector.
Make sure that the connector is free from debris.
If there are bent pins or debris, please contact Apple Support.
Otherwise, continue troubleshooting.
Make sure that the outlet you're using works.
Make sure that the Apple USB cable and Apple USB power adapter work.
Plug the device in to power and let it charge until your device turns on. This could take between 10 and 30 minutes. If you don't have an Apple USB power adapter, try connecting to a computer's high-power USB 2.0 port (not a keyboard). The computer must be on.
If the device still exhibits an issue, try turning your device off and then on again while connected to power.
If the issue persists, please contact Apple Support.
iPhone and iPod touch: Charging the battery
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1476
Cheers,
Allen -
My iphone 4s will still work and is still turned on but the screen will not light up. its completely black and my top button is broken.
Apple won't replace an iPhone under warranty if the iPhone has been opened/tinkered with by you or by a 3rd party, but they may under Apple's out of warranty or not covered under the warranty "repair" price.
There is only one way to find out for certain. -
I have an iphone 4s that is having display issues. If I turn the phone on, it vibrates to acknowledge it successfully turned on but the screen stays solid black. I can plug the phone into my computer and itunes will recognize the phone as well. However, itunes can not do anything with the phone because the phone is locked and I can not unlock the phone because the screen is black.
>CURVEBALL!!!<
The screen does work though! Through trial and error along side a little troubleshooting, I was able to figure out that the screen will cut on after the phone dies completely. The phone has to die completely with no battery power left. Then if I plug the phone into a charge and wait a while for it to charge, the phone will turn on like nothing was ever even wrong with it. I charge the phone up to like 30% and turn it off then bam the phone turns on but the screen is solid black again.
I am currently in the process of waiting for the phone to die and when I turn the phone back on I am going to completely remove the auto-lock and lock code off of the phone for the time being.
Any other suggestions? Please help!Sounds like the device was dropped at some point and damaged as a result.
Take it to Apple for evaluation and a replacement. -
Once resetting appletv, the screen remains blank while the light remains lit.
Try here:
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on -
my ipod got wet and allow time to dry, I turn now the musics and sound and everything but the screen is blank and nothing is visible. a solution please urgent.
See my reply to your other post
Maybe you are looking for
-
TS2972 Why don't all the movies in iTunes library show up on Apple TV?
I have five movies that I purchase from the iTunes Store in my iTunes library. They all show up on Apple TV except for "Fantastic Mr. Fox" which does not. Any guesses why not?
-
The Next Version of Premiere Pro CC - Warp Stabilizer
With the recent post of what's coming in the next version of PPro CC, I was sad to see no mention of Warp Stabilizer. As amazing of an effect as it is, it needs a bit of help. I know there are improvements and fixes that probably weren't mentioned in
-
Windows 7, Itunes 10.1.2.17, Touch 2nd gen, Won't sync and itunes freezes.
Just downloaded the latest update for itunes and the touch. Now whenever I try to sync itunes won't recognize it and the entire program freezes. The rest of the computer is fine (other applications, internet). Message was edited by: USC fan
-
Web App name tag capabilities and Upload response handling
Hi Guys, Let me begin by apologising for how long-winded this is going to be. I have set my products up in the ecommerce module utilising catalogues etc - I have removed the buy now and cart options, so the ecommerce module is operating essentially
-
Set operations & tables with different columns
I have a problem. I have 3 tables - Countries, Locations & Departments. I want to output the country_id and country_name from the countries tables for countries that have no departments. Locations has country_id and location_id columns and department