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Screen Goes Black after a few minutes

After a few minutes of sitting idle my MacBook Pro's screen goes black. When you move the mouse the screen comes back to life, you see a bit of the screen saver, then it goes back to the desktop. If the computer is left to sit (until the screen is set to turn off) the sleep light will come on (steady, not pulsing). If the screen is set to never sleep, there is not issues.

How can I fix this, it's really annoying.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 31, 2007 1:33 PM

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Mar 15, 2008 11:19 AM in response to iHobo

10.5.2 seems to have fixed this issue is correct. For those of you who dont know though. Programming takes time even a very skilled programmer will take some time in order to fix a bug. reson is because if you fix one issue it might bring up another causing you to have to fix that one. Its not always a 1+1 error its alot of times something in a completly differnt portion of the program causing somthing in awhole nother part of the program to act up. It can be very tedious to fix something that wasnt seen till publication when a lot of people start to use it and do stuff that a bug team (testing team) would have never had enough time to do every single differnt way a user can use a mac. But thats my two cent on the programming aspects i hope it was helpful to those that think that mac doesnt care. They do it just takes a lot of time and work hours to fix something that appears that mundaen.

Screen Goes Black after a few minutes

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