Screen Goes Black after a few minutes

Are you still running Tiger? A workaround (shouldn't have to, but worked for me in Tiger) is unplug and then plug in the power again (ensure the reduce brightness setting is off as well). This will sort out the issue until your next re-boot. Not sure why, but it worked all the time when I had tiger installed.

Hope it helps!

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I've had my mbp since last july and didn't have this problem until i upgraded to Leopard.

Let me add my $0.02 to this. I just noticed that the screensaver never comes up. Screen just goes dark after a few minute. This MBP, I've had one week. It had Tiger initially, but I upgraded to Leopard quickly afterward.

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Not fixed in 10.5.1 😟

Ahhhh!!! This is driving me crazy now! I'm actually starting to sympathize with the "PC" in Apple's new commercials who "went back to XP." I'm this close to going back to Tiger!

I'm on a video chat (skype, sorry, it plays with windowz,) and my chat disappears!
I'm watching a training flash video for my company, and it disappears!
I'm showing someone a Numbers spreadsheet, and as I discuss details of a graph, it disapears!
I'm wanting to show friends my snazzy new screensaver, when my screen goes black before it gets a chance to appear!

Apple folks... Hello.... Come on, you top engineers don't have the top of the line notebook computer built by Apple? You aren't running the latest and greatest version of OSX? This isn't happening to you?!? It's not just the slightest bit annoying?!?

O.k. enough venting. I have found a temporary workaround, but still annoying in its own right... Download this little program, Caffeine. http://www.lightheadsw.com/
It solves the screen issue temporarily, but will still remind you Leopard and the MacBook Pro are flawed by the little icon in the menu bar.

Message was edited by: FlyCadet

I have this problem too on a 6 week old MBP with 10.5.0.

I just want to see my screensaver!

Ditto on not being fixed in 10.5.1 on my MBP.

Yeah still doesn't work in 10.5.1

Come on Apple, your better than this.

I have the same problem on my 17" 2.4ghz Intel MBP 10.5.1 and not on my 17'' PB G4 1.33ghz PPC 10.5

Add one more to the list, same problem here.

Same problem here. Extremely annoying. This and my Airport drive mounting woes represent borderline last straw for me. Apple, please get your sh*t together and fix...

Same here.
Screen goes dark after 4 minutes.

I have the same problem on my MBP 2.4.

I have got a casenumber with apple and are at the moment trying different things that they send to me all the time.

If I get some kind of fix from them I will come back here and post right away.

Best regards Björn from Sweden

Count me in with the same problem...I've redone sleep and screensaver preferences ad nauseam, with no effect. Screen sleeps when I'm still using the machine even! In an IM chat or browsing the Web, for example, where you might pause to read something for a minute or two. I have screen sleep set to 30 minutes.

My Santa Rosa MacBook Pro was purchased on Aug 30, and I had no problems in Tiger, through 10.4.11. Only on installing Leopard this past week did the problem arise. I did the Upgrade install, and had no other issues except for having to add back my printers and redo a few other preferences. I updated to 10.5.1 immediately upon installing Leopard.