[Wiskedjak]

This morning my MacBook seemed to be getting a little flaky. The wifi was connecting and disconnecting, despite my other wifi devices maintaining solid connections. I decided to reboot the machine ... it's been at least two weeks since it was last rebooted. On reboot, I received a chime, but the screen was off. After a few seconds, the screen flashed on but remained blank with no obvious bootup activity.

Is it dead or does anyone know a possible recovery. Laptop is out of warranty.

[amazing]

have you tried an external HD? resetting the SMU and PRAM? can it be seen in firewire target disk mode?

[Wiskedjak]

Resetting PRAM did the trick.

[amazing]

thanks for reporting back--it's always great to hear that something worked.

[polendo]

Hi, how did you get to reset the PRAM?
regards,

[ibook_steve]

Documented here many times and easily Googled:

Hold cmd-option-p-r at boot until you hear the boot chime at least twice.

Steve