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It can't be a failing backlight, the screen works fine in it's command line, boot screens and in Windows 7. My battery is junk. I have it disconnected and I have the unit powered by it's original power adapter.

Okay, it is doing it again. I think I figured out why. When the screen swaps from the Apple logo loading screen and launches the desktop, it instead just turns off the screen. I am pretty sure it is launching into sleep mode automatically. When I had the OS running a few days ago, the lid...

Yes, 4 GB was my goal. It is rather sluggish and that would add a great boost. My battery is also junk (now confirmed thanks to being able to boot into OSX) and needs to be replaced, but that is another matter altogether. :D

I actually solved the issue. I already had the hard drive formatted to HFS+ (I used another Mac OSX machine to run Disk Utility and got that out of the way) but it didn't solve anything. What I did was after I had finished the OS install from that other OSX machine, I held down Shift to boot...

I am not sure if this is hardware or software related, but it is driving me up a wall. I started with a MacBook (February 08 model) with no hard drive. I added a hard drive in, and since I didn't have a OSX install disc on hand I installed Windows 7 on boot. It installed fine, but I...