[nashstradamus]

I let my 1.5GHz Powerbook sit in my office on my desk and when I come back in the room sometimes the screen is just black, but I can tell it is on. When I hold down the power key, the PB turns off and starts up fine. I recently added a Bluetake bluetooth mouse, but this also happened before that. This has happened to me twice in the past day and I added the mouse on Friday. I have no clue what this is and it is making me very angry because this is very "Window-esque" and that is the whole reason I switched. Does anyone have a clue as to what it could be and what I can do the next time I encounter the situation?

[jknight8907]

Try turning up the screen brightness. It probably put itself all the way dim for who knows what reason. My sister's 15" PB has done this a few times.

[nashstradamus]

this is happening more often now and i still have no clue what is causing it. it is like the screen is turned all the way down like you said jkight, but it has nothing to do with the brightness. i have to make sure to save before leaving my computer everytime i get up because my only recourse so far has just been rebooting. to remedy temporarily i have extanded the screen saver wait to an hour or two, but i want a permanent fix. this is making my mac feel like my old dell! can anyone lend a word of advice for my situation?

[SpaceRockness]

If it is causing lost work, call up AppleCare or go to an Apple Retail Store and let a Mac Genius take a look at the problem. I prefer letting a Mac Genius look at the problematic system because they can experience the problem and over the phone support are limited to descriptions.
I'd guess it would have to do with loose LCD wiring expanding/contracting from internal temps or the video chipset somehow got stuck in sleep mode.

Good luck, I hope it is just software related than hardware... I'm still paranoid of shipping my first gen alu 15" in for a new screen