Backlight failures on 20" Cinema Displays

Many of you seem to be writing of the dreaded partial darkening and short-short-long flashing power light issue with these otherwise great monitors. Mine is under 2yrs old and just developed the problem - which is a backlight failure my local Apple Genius Bar consultant confirms cost about $750 to repair (ie replace whole LCD). Before I go ballistic with fury, does anyone know of a simpler realworld solution for this issue --like say a bulb replacement (wouldn't THAT make sense) or something reasonable like that. Or am I just out of luck...?

Posted on Jan 24, 2005 11:36 AM

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Sep 12, 2006 10:50 PM in response to James Gannon

I restarted my mac - the dimming returned at the top. Fiddled with the monitor settings and brightness control again until the problem went away... clearly not away permanently... not sure what to do...

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Backlight failures on 20" Cinema Displays

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