cinema display recognized, but black with non-working power button

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I don't have Apple Care and had the same issue recently. I found two companies online that sell Apple replacement bricks. Dvwarehouse.com and Fastmac.com. They are a bit pricey but I had no other choice since it was 2 weeks past my 1 year warranty.

Same here - 23 inch cinema display in a sudden started to show the "stays black although recognized" sickness. The rapid power off/on procedure helps to bring it back to life. Sometimes it is a matter of just a few off/on cycles but other times it takes plenty of these. However, after revival the display stays on for as long as I want it to.

After the several reports that a new power brick solves that annoying issue, I would like to know if there is anyone who didn't succeed with replacing the power brick?

Greetings,
jcr

Nope - replacing the brick was 100% effective for me. Well over a month since then too.

After reading the multitude of threads with chronic 23" ACD problems, I have to wonder, is Apple focusing mainly on the NEW displays that may be coming??? I looked at the rave reviews for this model on CNET posted in '05 and '06, and then all of a sudden, like falling off a cliff, a lot of angry reviews started appearing after that.

I have had no problems with my 30" ACD and was hoping the 23" would be good for my office. Looks like it's wait and see. Seems like a crap shoot to me. Too bad. Great display, if you get one without problems.

I have a G4 with a 23 inch cinema screen. After several years of trouble free use the screen flashed and went black, and then the on button on the screen started to flash three times and then pause. After a short while fan in the tower (or the hard drive) made a very loud whirring sound. I turned the computer off and on several times but still had a black screen and a flashing power button. Finally I turned off the computer, unplugged the ACD from the tower, restarted the computer and then replugged in the ACD. I got a corrupted screen which eventually corrected itself. Hope this is of some help to someone else in this situation. Does anybody recognize this set of events? Should I be replacing something?

I'm having a similar problem and found this article online: http://mac-guild.org/display-repair.html This sounds like the exact problem I'm having with my cinema screen, so I'm going to try replacing my backlight inverter next - maybe it'll help you.

Thanks that was helpful. However, my issue was three short flashes, and I believe yours was two short followed by one long. I reset my pram and the issue has not re-appeared.

Thanks for posting your resolution to the three short blinking lights issue. I simply shut down both my computer and monitor, unplugged the monitor power, and then powered on the monitor only after my computer finished restarting.

I'm having the same problem with the "off" screen that still seems to be recognized in a dual display config... I tried most of the relevant fixes noted here, short of the "new brick" approach.
None worked.

Then I unplugged the Firewire and USB cables from the display and plugged the DVI input back into my MBPro and Voila, it's back.

Might just be dumb luck. It might go out again in 5 minutes or 5 days, but it's working now.

So if you're having this problem, clearing the ports might help.
Now if I could just work up the courage to plug them back in.

where do you get this god **** brick if that is even what will help me.
i'd love to complain to someone that works for apple ... but it seems they are the hardest people in the world to get in contact with.....jeez i just want my god **** screen to work.

I had the same problem. Wanted to explode in anger with my display not working, it's such a nice Display but your world goes down when it does.

Called Apple, got a new brick for $80 and IT WORKED! Reboots with Mac Pro on Leopard as expected.

Now I just have to call Apple back to get the double charge refunded they did. Hope the new brick doesn't die!

My Apple Cinema Display would briefly turn on, and then go black with no powerlight showing, when the system woke up or restarted. I knew the system had turned on properly because it would make the "new mail" sounds. My 'work around' was to unplug the monitor for a minute or two and then the display would come back on immediately.

From reading the posts in this thread I decided to try a new power brick. I was still under Apple Care, so they sent one out under warranty. It is not the same model as the original - perhaps the original ones were faulty? With the new powerbrick, the display has performed flawlessly. My old powerbrick has - in very small writing - "Celtron APP 22-611-0344". This was the old faulty one. FYI.

Hope this helps someone with the same problem

For what it's worth, I just spoke with an Apple rep about my problem (which was/is essentially the same as what everyone here is describing), and he said that it is a known issue and that it is software-based -- that is, it is actually something that should be fixed in a future update of Mac OS X. I'm currently running 1.5.2.

Although he was cryptic as usual about when that update would happen, it at least sounded hopeful. Not sure if that puts anyone's mind at ease or helps at all, but I thought I would at least report.