The top part of my screen is dim, is there anything I can do myself to fix it?

I have a 20 inch early 2008 iMac that has been perfect for me, up until now. 95% of the time when I now start it up, the top part of my screen goes dim. I play with it and put it to sleep and wake it up immediately, and sometimes that will work and it will stay lit up. The computer is clearly out of warranty...is there anything I can do to help this? How much would a repair like this cost without a warranty? I'm so frustrated.

iMac's are about the worst computer in the world value speaking to buy becaues of their "closed" nature.
Your only choice seems to be to call a online Mac repair shop or Apple, send it to them and get a estimate.
Consider a MacPro for your next desktop machine, at least with that you can run out and get another monitor, or hard drive, or video card, or power supply, or ...and install it yourself.

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