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Jan 26, 2010

it makes the start up noise but no light on the screen,

my friend done the firewire transfer to copy all my data across so i know its not completly dead.

and when doing the firewire transfer it comes up with a grey screen so i know the screen isnt broke.

any help on a fix?

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