Important info if your screen backlight has gone out! READ!

So a few months back, the backlight on my iBook G4 went out. It is only about a year and a half old, and not having the Apple care, and not being able to spend $700+ on a new screen (i would rather just put that towards a MacBookPro anyhow!)....I went by an Apple Dealer in Birmingham (my g/f got a macbook pro ) and told him about my backlight. He said he had this happen before too and told me to bring it in and he would try something.....SO I did and he FIXED IT!! All he did was type in codes and I got him to write it down so I could post it here.

1. Turn iBook OFF.

2. Hold Apple-Option-O-F

3. After 15-30 seconds, Release Keys

4. TYPE:

RESET-NURAM (might be RESET-NVRAM, but I think it is RESET-NURAM)
SET-DEFAULTS
RESET-ALL

(each followed by "return", which means press 'return')

This should work, it did for mine! I was so excited...now I can see everything as clearly as I had before...I didnt realize what a difference that makes!


Please let me know if this helped anyone out!

Thanks for posting your good result story sleepy monkey! (apologies if your user-name is sleepy_monkey - can't tell with the underlined usernames here)

hopefully this will help everyone out that has had this problem!

Great link! It's funny that on Apple's tech page, the main Admins tell everyone to get a new screen. Money money money....MONEY!