It might not even be asleep. Is the sleep light on the front on? If the front light is off, and the backlight won't turn up, maybe it's burnt out. Put it under a bright light, or flashlight and see if you can see anything on the screen. If so, you need a new backlight bulb. Paul On 4/19/03 6:10 PM, "Stephen Foster" <foster at mail.ca.inter.net> wrote: > Our son put our dual 600MHz iBook to sleep but when he went to use it > nothing happened. The number and cap lock buttons light up when > pressed but that's the only sign of life. Tried re-setting the power > manager but no joy, probably because the machine's not really "off". > I know I've read about wake-up problems before but I don't seem to > have saved any of the posts/solutions. Thanks for any help.