Okay, so it started this morning and I was able to see the screen... for a few seconds. Then it flickered and faded to bright white, not black... so I'm pretty sure it's not the backlight, right? I could barely see the menu or drive icons, and it would pulse back into view for a moment and then disappear back into the white again.

Adjusting the contrast did nothing.

I'm sure it's a hardware problem. Could this be caused by a dead pram battery?

My next guess would be a dying cap, and after that... a loose screen connector.. but if it were a connector I think it would be flickering instead of pulsating.

So... a battery or a cap. (or possibly something else I didn't think of)

What do you guys think?

I'm just not looking forward to taking this thing apart now. Atleast I will be able to swap the screen into my good PB while I'm in there. (I posted a thread awhile back about how my good PB had a row of dead pixels...)