Screen Goes Black after a few minutes

I have also tried all of the above. I spent 3 hours on the phone to Apple care with no solution!! Two installs later and still no success. I purchased the laptop 1 week prior to upgrading to Leopard and I can say it didn't have the bug using Tiger. Tiger did have a screen dimming bug (only went to about half brightness when all power options were set to avoid this) with the MBP, but that had a number of workarounds (including unplugging the power cable and plugging it in again....all fixed until a restart). I experienced the same issue on my 1st generation MBP....it is a very common bug in Tiger. There are no workarounds for the Leopard bug that I'm aware of. I hope they fix this soon....its very annoying. For now I've set the reduce brightness option to on so at least I can still see whats on the screen after 3-minutes on not touching the mouse.

I've also occasionally experienced a weird trend where sometimes the first key entered doesn't go on the screen. This happened in Tiger and Leopard, so isn't an OS bug. I've read a variety of posts where people have experienced the same thing. Would be keen to hear if others are having a similar problem. The issue is it isn't reproducible!! It certainly didn't happen to my first generation MBP.

I am experiencing this as well. MBP 2.4, Leopard. Never experienced this in Tiger.

When "Automatically reduce display the brightness of the display before display sleep" is enabled, the screen dims after 2 minutes or so and the display sleeps after 5 minutes (I set it this way). When the setting is disabled the display dims to the lowest brightness setting after exactly 1 minute. The backlight is off but there is still a faint display on the screen.

I have the same problem here. 17" 2.4ghz MBP, I did a clean install of Leopard and started having this problem. Didn't happen with Tiger.

Add me to the list..... this is definitely a bug I hope Apple fixes it soon because it is very annoying.

Identical issue. The machine is less than two weeks old. It came with Tiger installed and a Leopard DVD, which I installed straight away, so I have no idea if Tiger would have exhibited the same behaviour.

And I agree; it's most annoying.

Since I still get the "We haven't heard of anyone else having this problem" from the Apple Store and AppleCare, everyone don't forget to fill out a bug report so Apple has an "official" record.

http://www.apple.com/feedback

File under - bug.

I agree. I've put in two already...just in case 🙂

I'm having the same problem, with a brand new MBP running Leopard.

Also having this problem on a two-month-old 2.2 GHz Macbook Pro on Leopard. No combination of reboots or energy saver settings (including command-line pmset) seems to be able to fix it. The system was running fine before installing Leopard.

To be very specific, the problem I am experiencing is that the screen backlight switches off after a minute or two of being left unattended. The screen is still on, but the backlight is completely off.

Has anyone contacted AppleCare about this within the last couple of days? I wonder if they are at least admitting that this is an issue that people are encountering after Leopard install?

Does the same on my 1 week old MBP. Just filed a bug.

I'm having the same issue here... never had this issue before with Tiger... Between this bug and not being able to mount my external hard drives wirelessly via my airport extreme base station, I"m ready to toss my MBP out the window!

Same thing. New 17" MBP. Came with Tiger, immediately upgraded. After a few minutes of my initial preferences setup, I finally got around to the Energy Saver settings and set them up how I like them. But to my surprise my display went to sleep far earlier than the 30 minutes I had selected. Turning to the community for help, but from the looks of things no one else has had the greatest luck either. I hope it'll just require a small software patch and that it'll be released soon.

Best of luck,
David

I too have this problem and it started occurring on the 26th when I installed Leopard. My screen saver has always been set to 15 and the display sleep set to 25 minutes. After upgrading to Leopard, the screen goes black at 12 minutes. This past weekend I finally had a chance to do a complete erase and reinstall of Leopard and it is still persisting, only now, the screen goes dark after 3 minutes! I believe it is definitely a bug in Leopard and I am hoping to at least see some acknowledgment by Apple. So far I haven't even been able to find some hint of it outside the forums.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I also talked to one of the Apple Store reps at the Galleria in Houston while traveling last week, and he acted like it was just an issue for me and no one else. Surely more people have seen this problem?!

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Same issue... screen dims after 2 mins even in 10.4.10... brand new, 5 days ago, 15" MBP w/ 4GB RAM... tried all listed suggestions, nothing works... waiting for 10.5.1 update, read to many 10.5 problems. Bad situation

Come on Apple fix this problem, bug report already submitted