I have a 292mhz Wallstreet. Occasionally, the screen just goes blank...and I don't mean sleeping. When its sleeping, the little power light flashes, but when it does this, the power light doesn't flash.
When it does this, I can't get it to come back on (the screen), but I know things are going on as it still makes all the sounds and such. I used to do a forced reset, but today I pressed the power button once, heard the hard drive rattle, so I was assuming it was the 'are you sure you want to shutdown' message, hit the left arrow key and then <enter> and it did in fact shut down, so at least I don't have to hard reset it anymore.
Anyway, does anyone know what causes this, for the screen to just go blank and not come back? After it reboots, it's fine. But it seems to do this about every other day and is kind of annoying. Sometimes it's after I have closed it and it goes to sleep, then later I will open it up, hit the spacebar and nothing...sometimes it works fine and wakes up.
Today, I had just woken it up from sleep, looked away for a minute, looked back and it was blank again...hit the spacebar, nothing.
Any ideas or suggestions? I'm running OS X.2.8. With 512Mb RAM.
This is a sometime problem I run into on my Wallstreet. It's something goofy with the power manager I guess. You should be able to get the back lighting on by hitting the brightness control on the keyboard. That's a start but doesn't solve the problem, if it goes to sleep the backlighting won't come back on. To fix it restart into OS 9, put it to sleep, wake it up and then restart back into OS X and hopefully, all is well.
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