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and I don't really remember specifics, but I do remember taking off all of the tape very carefully, changing out the backlight, and putting the tape back on (also carefully). Basically, the laptop was useless without a working lcd...so it wasn't really much of a gamble to try to fix it...

so - this issue is continuing, with no real rhyme or reason as to what is causing it. It will randomly "fix" itself, but more often than not the machine is not able to talk to the world from mac applications. This appears to be systemwide, as I created a new user and experienced the same...

so - magically this has fixed itself, after a reboot. (the machine has been rebooted several times during the day, but for some reason this last one triggered *something*.) any ideas on what caused this problem, or how i can find out more information?

it's not a dns issue - i can ping a site by its hostname and by its url. but, when i try to browse in IE - either to http://hostname or http://ip, the error "A connection failure has occured" comes up. in Safari, it just stalls while contacting "66.94.234.13" or whatever else. Entourage is also...

no, and no...

I have a user who called me today because his internet programs have ceased functioning. He can open up safari/ie/entourage, but they time out while trying to connect. He is able to ping/traceroute machines on the outside world, and his machine is pingable, so I think the problem lies with...

i replaced the backlight - it's called a backlight bulb, but it's one part. http://wegenermedia.com/lcdpage.htm (scroll down to the bottom where it says backlights and lcd tools) i didn't do it all at once so i can't give you a good estimate of the time it took. basically, i took it apart...

$60 of course, as soon as i ordered it, i found a site that supposedly sells them for $30... oh well.

oh yes, btw, i fixed it by replacing the backlight. thanks again for the manual - it was a great help!

nice! thanks!

i have been given a 12" g4 aluminum powerbook which was dropped. (the owner took it to an apple store, and they said it would be almost $1000 to fix it, so he got a new one and told me i could do whatever i wanted to with the old one). everything works fine, except the display is very dark. the...