[Ti] G4 800 Ti: Screen goes "dark"

[zefred]

Hi Tim, To know for sure if the inverter board is responsible, have a 
look through the apple once the screen is dark. If you still see the 
desktop very (VERY) faintly, it means that it's the inverter board. If 
you see nothing... it's something else.

The inverter board controls the backlight of the screen, so it could 
also be the backlight itself which fails, (but this is VERY rare, the 
inverter board failure, on the other hand, is quite frequent ).

And, yes, unfortunately, it will die completely very soon. Mine lasted 
3 weeks before I had to replace it.
Menawhile, you can still use the powerbook with an external screen 
though.
To know if your powerbook is DVI, check the back plugs, if you have a 
VGA plug and an infrared port, it's not DVI, if you have a DVI plug and 
no infrared port then...

:o)

Good luck.

Z.

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