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Fixing the Dreaded iBook Backlight?
Aliencow inquires: "I've recently bought an iBook, and it started having the very common backlight problem. Basically, there are two types of things that can cause the problem: either the screen hinges pinching the cables, which is pretty easy to fix if you're not scared of opening things up; or it could be the logic board, which is what happened in my case. I've heard of someone being able to fix it by doing a bypass operation on the board, soldering a wire before the break and soldering it directly on the backlight connector. Aside from that, however I haven't been able to find much about how to fix that particular problem. Have any of you iBook-owning Slashdot readers had to repair your iBook like this? Any hints? If my repair is successful I'll surely snap a bunch of pictures and make a website, as this is a problem that affects a lot of iBook owners."
The backlight the poster was referring to is the light in the screen that makes you able to see it (and lights up the nifty apple logo).
Hold F1 until the little bar goes all the way down to see what it's like with the backlight off. To turn it back on, hold F2.
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What do you mean it doesn't have a backlight? Has it never worked? Do you not use the machine's built-in display, using external VGA or something?
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I see what is meant by backlight now.
... how about the power button? It glows on my G4 tower, but not on the iBook. That's by design, right?
I thought it referred to a backlite keyboard, or a way to make the plastic that surrounds the screen light up (kinda like those makeup mirrors).
Now
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