Would anyone have an educated guess on what has messed up my screen, see below? During startup, the Apple logo shows almost normally with only few extra pixels on top of the logo and at the right end of screen. After that, it's just these lines. Weirdly, when waking up from sleep, the screen works normally for less than a second before the lines reappear. Already tried resetting SMC and NVRAM. External screen works fine. Cannot use recover mode as the picture is already gone crazy by the point the recovery menu appears.
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Vertical gray lines on the screen of 2020 MBP
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As an external works fine. I'd say it has to do with the screen itself
- Cracked ribbon cable
- partially dislodged ribbon cable
- faulty LCD Panel
- faulty T-Con Board
- faulty Mainboard
You can check the cable and reseat the connector. You can also try moving the display and see if it works occasionally in different positions. But as it works for a second. Then goes bad. I doubt it has anything to do with the cable. With the problem deeper in the display.
Is it still under warranty? If not. The display assembly runs about $320 on eBay from sellers offering them with free returns.
- Cracked ribbon cable
- partially dislodged ribbon cable
- faulty LCD Panel
- faulty T-Con Board
- faulty Mainboard
You can check the cable and reseat the connector. You can also try moving the display and see if it works occasionally in different positions. But as it works for a second. Then goes bad. I doubt it has anything to do with the cable. With the problem deeper in the display.
Is it still under warranty? If not. The display assembly runs about $320 on eBay from sellers offering them with free returns.
Thank you – luckily there's still two weeks of warranty left so I won't have to take a hit financially. It's more about how long the prospective repairs will take, as this is my only computer. Watching Netflix from an outdated iPad Air 2 is fine, but doing work is another thing... Based on what you write, it seems likely T-Con or mainboard are to blame, which will mean a major repair.
By the way, also the first time anything like that happens to any Macbooks I've own, and I've had one since 2008. Of course one shouldn't generalize from a signle case, but still doesn't increase trust toward these newer laptops. Perhaps the ARM machines will be a different story, I hope. At least they shouldn't overheat, which should protect T-Con Board etc.
By the way, also the first time anything like that happens to any Macbooks I've own, and I've had one since 2008. Of course one shouldn't generalize from a signle case, but still doesn't increase trust toward these newer laptops. Perhaps the ARM machines will be a different story, I hope. At least they shouldn't overheat, which should protect T-Con Board etc.