Any way to fix black screen from another computer?

[bcreid2]

I have a 2008 macbook pro with snow leopard installed. When i turned the computer on the computer boots up but my screen stays black. Sometimes when i try to restart the computer i don't even get a chime. When i do get a chime, i can share the screen and run the macbook from my imac. Is there a way to get my screen to turn on remotely from my imac?

 

[MrCheeto]

Click the  in the menu of the MacBook.

Hold Option and click, "System Profiler...", it will only appear as long as you hold option.

Check under Graphics/Displays that there is a display listed under "Displays:"

If your display is detected, it should look somewhat like this:

 

[bcreid2]

All it says...

when i go to display/graphics under the profiler all it says is:

Chipset model: GMA X3100
Type: GPU
Bus: Built-in
VRAM (total) 64 MB of shared system memory
Vendor Intel (0x8086)
Device id: 0x2a02
Revision id: 0x0003
Displays:
Display connector:

and that is it? Is this normal? Is it not detecting the display?

 

[MrCheeto]

Boy howdie, looks like your display is not connected. Have you ever opened you MacBook?

 

[bcreid2]

Yeah, i have opened it before. Where does the display plug in? If my graphics card is bad will it still not register a connected display? Thanks...

 

[MrCheeto]

As I suspected, it looks like somebody forgot a step in their ifixit guide ^.^

Go to iFixit.com and check the guides for disassembling and reassembling the MacBook so you can make sure you firmly and securely plug in the display cable.

 

[bcreid2]

Thanks for your help....i will see what i can see!

 

[bcreid2]

It looks as though everything is plugged in. Any other ideas? Another thing, if i do not do a pram reset when i turn it on then i don't get the chime and i cannot share the macbook screen with my imac. So, i have a black screen and when i turn it on no chime and no access unless i do a pram reset (which i still have a black screen.

 

[MrCheeto]

Not unless you're the religious type.