Macbook screen suddenly becomes DARK!!

I've had my macbook 15" for 2 weeks and it suddenly went dark. I could barely make out the screen to restart my computer. It was like searching in the dark for a needle!! When I restarted it was fine but I don't want to have to worry about it. Is there a certain setting that I need to change???? HELP! Battery was plugged in when this happened.

hello,

my screen went dark again today exactly the moment i pluged the charger in...
again a managed to reboot and it started up light again, but this is highly worrying! did anybody find a reason for this problem?

all my best,

ania

Some feedback for anyone that has this same problem.
OK, the problem I had with the screen and dimming was resolved by Apple. I took it to Apple service this weekend and they took care of the problem within a couple of minutes and now no more problems. All they did was reset the System Management and sapped the PRAM. See the attached link for resetting the System Management Controller..... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
They did this and then sapped the PRAM and no more problem. Hope this helps. Nice to have a screen that doesn't dim anymore!

EDIT: to my above post, I realised that the screen would only go dark in the middle of importing music from cd. There would be a definite click, the screen would darken to its lowest setting and the import would be frozen. Now this only started occurring after the migration and dvd/cd sharing update 1.1. So what I did was shutdown and disconnect all power from my computer including the battery and restart. note the post here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8323351&#8323351. Everything seems fine so far.

This is exactly what happened to me. I had to shut down my Mac and leave it off for a few minutes. When I turned it back on, the screen looked fine. Now, I don't know if this will happen again, but knowing how it happened and how to make sure it stops happening would be great.

im no expert could you see anything at all on the screen. the backlight might not be working or something. or what i sometimes do is turn the brightness on my screen right down so you basically can't see anything. try that and see if it replicates what you all saw when the screen randomly went down. sometimes the computer puts the hardisk to sleep whenever possible on the battery settings but i doubt that you wouldn't have notices that before. i dont see if this can help but its to the best of my knolledge

I could still see everything on the screen, but it was very difficult without the backlight on (I did turn the brightness all the way down, and it looked exactly the same). And my Mac was going back and forth in Sleep Mode all day, so that might have been the problem.

hei, i just had exactly the same problem few minutes ago. power on and suddenly the screen went so dark i could barely see anything. i managed to find 'restart' and right now everything seems to be fine. i have no idea why that happened...did anyone find an answer to this problem!?

and even some more feedback - hopefully it will be helpful for someone.
in my case it turned out that i accidentally messed up my 'energy saver' settings. The display was set on 'go to sleep' when the computer was inactive for 1 minute which could have caused the strange behavior. since i have changed the settings i had no problems so far.

I have just had this problem. I have had this macbook 2 years and have had no problems before. The screen went to its darkest setting. What I did was turn the brightness buttons to minimum brightness then the screen caught up with them. But it happened again, then again then the computer forced shutdown by itself. Reasons? I had been importing a lot of CD's. The problem occurred when the disk drive was being used i.e. importing the CD into itunes. The CPU temperature was above 60 degrees celsius and 80 degrees at one point. more than 110 percent of RAM was being used out of 200 percent. Are these helpful factors? I was using only mains power set to 'better performance'. When the Disk Drive is running fans don't exceed 3000rpm to cool the CPU. Any suggestions?

I am having the exact same problem but have found a temporary solution in closing the computer lid and then reopening it.