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Model A1181: 1.83, 2, 2.1, 2.13, 2.16, 2.2, or 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor

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Backlight problems

I have a issue with backlight as one quoted here, GPU is fine, I can see the screen content from an angle.

Backlight stays off all the time and also when moving the lid up or down, but it flashes for a split second when changing the brightness upwards. This rules out the cable.

Anyone seen similar before, is it an inverter issue or the fluorescent bulb?

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I strongly believe you're having inverter troubles, with a slightly lesser percentage of a CCFL lamp issue. We however first need to assess what's exactly your machine. To achieve that, you should provide us with the last fourth numbers and letters in your Serial Number, that you can easily find in System Profiler, Hardware tab.

However, short story: yes, it may be the Inverter. Or, in a smaller percentage, the CCFL, or the inverter cable got not only frayed, but trashed so badly to end up completely disconnected. But the more plausible option goes through an inverter replacement.

Long story, with explaination: That done, usually a failing backlight derives from four causes, and the latter of those is so unlikely that it almost never happens, unless there are some other causes, like water damage and such alike.

I'll order them in order of parts involved

  1. A worn out inverter cable: The cable running from the logic board to the inverter, passes through the display hinges, and in time it wears out and gets pinched in the display. When it happens, the backlight starts to act up, and, usually, jiggling the display up and down restores the backlight for a few seconds, or until the display gets even a small vibration. In rarer cases, the cable gets so frayed that even the jiggling does nothing.
  2. A failing Inverter: Inverters fail, in time. When it happens, they give short burts of energy, with the backlight working for shorter and shorter amounts of time. Sometimes, when it works, it also flickers, pulsating stronger and fainter. When it's overtly damaged, it acts the way you described
  3. A failing Backlight: The backlight is given by a small CCFL Cold-Cathode Fluorescente Lamp lodged in the bottom part of the LCD panel. Imagine it, for reference, as a tiny neon lamp. As you know, when a Neon lamp degrades, it starts blinking, taking lots of time to reach heat enough to keep working, shutting down at odd times and, when it works, giving out a degrade hue. For CCFL lamps, the hue is pinkish or yellowish
  4. Damaged capacitors on the logic board: As I told, you could chalk it off. Sometimes, the capacitors that push energy in the Inverter cable get damaged. But your machine has less than four years, I'd exclude that.

So, the safest course of action entails changing the inverter, and assess. You may solve everything, or you may need to change the inverter cable too, since your assessment rules out a frayed and pinched inverter cable, but doesn't rule all the possibility of an inverter cable gone completely ripped. That would entail dismantling your machine and check the status of the cable

I doubt you're going to need a new LCD panel, just the Inverter. That's all.

With your serial number, I could show you the needed parts on iFixit.

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+ very good answer but we only need the last three figures of your serial number for machine identification and get you to the correct part and installation guide.

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