Sounds like the display backlight has gone. What’s the serial number of the Mac? It’s printed on the underside of the base
Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.co.uk MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 5 Dec 2019, at 21:21, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > My trusty old 2008 iMac with an SSD and that had been upgraded to its max OS of El Capitan (10.11 I think) seems to have a serious problem (but hopefully not). I was watching a video on You Tube a couple of hours ago in full screen. Suddenly the screen went black but the sound continued. If I pressed the space bar the sound stopped (as that presumably paused the video). Pressing ESC to get out of full screen did nothing as the screen stayed black. I powered off . Waited a few minutes then turned it back on. Sound/chime was normal but screen turned a bit grey and then went black - zilch. Is there any clever key combination to press while pressing Power? Maybe it is a failure of the SSD ( I believe they fail without any warning)? I have a fairly recent back up and Time Machine back up but then I presumably would need another computer running El Capitan to access the data…. Any thoughts gratefully received. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/3F36D956-DD44-49F9-9C11-843758162042%40mac.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/352CD29B-D184-4A9A-B108-21277A7A48AC%40macambulance.co.uk.
