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My MacBook Pro fell down from a considerably high point (about 4 feet). Now, when I turn it on, I can hear all the starting sounds and see a dim apple on the screen, but the screen is 99% dark. If you connect it to another monitor, it works. I tried replacing the LED driver board and this didn’t work. What else can it be?
Sounds like the cable. Check for nicks, & that the connections solid. Remember to return and mark accepted the answer that best solves your problem. Good luck, N
Sorry I didn’t see this before. If you can see the desktop dimly, your inverter or inverter cable are bad. First hook it up to an external monitor and let me know what you get and we can go from there. Also hook it up to another Mac via firewire cable and try to start your machine with the “T” key held down. Your hard drive icon should appear on the other machine.
Yes, actually, I replaced the hard drive in my Macbook and can boot from the old hard drive as well, if I choose to. You can get an external enclosure online for less than $20 and put the old hard drive in there. Then, you can either use it for your startup disk, or you can format it and use it as a regular external drive. As for the rest of the computer, you can part it out and recoup some of your money, especially with the screen and the super drive. People would even pay money for the body of the computer without the board. Good luck!
