[l008com]

I'm getting an iBook, and it has a dead backlight. But its not the standard problem I don't think, where the hinge has frayed the video connector. The machine was working great and the owner spilled an something on it, all on the base. The backlight went out. He took it apart and carefully dried everything. It was turned back on and everything worked, except the LCD's backlight. You can use the VGA output, and you can see an image on the built in LCD, just very faint, with no backlight. So i probably don't need a new reed switch which has that wire that always wears out. Someone suggested an video inverter board, i don't know what that does so I don't know if that sounds right or not. Could it be the light itself, could this incedent have cause the light to burn out somehow? I've never really owned an iBook to disect so I don't know too mugh about the deep inner working of one.


Oh yeah how about some info...
Its a Dual USB iBook 600 DVD-CDRW

[ewiser]

Well after you take your ibook totally apart just use a multimeter to make sure that youre backlight cable does not have a broken wire. If that shows that the cable is good then you need the inverter board.
On my ibook it was the cable. I purchased from Smalldog for cheap.
Check out the Apple ibook display section and the 30 degree backlight thread.