Yes, I read about the hinges pinching the inverter cables and breaking them. The inverter is much easier to change than the backlight. My experience was in changing an entire screen for a Wallstreet. The seller has since disappeared. He was advertising the iBook as having a darkened display. Thanks George On 3-Sep-06, at 9:39 AM, Stephen Mackenzie wrote: >> Has anybody done this? The seller claims that's all that's wrong. > > The backlight is part of the LCD panel, you would have to change the > entire panel. More likely is that the inverter board--kind of like the > starter for a fluorescent light--has broken, and that should be > replaced. > > I don't understand what you mean by the second sentence. > > SM -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 806 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/ibook/attachments/20060903/22413517/attachment.bin