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Grubster

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Original poster
Jun 25, 2010
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Hi, I recently picked up a nice 2017 MacBook pro 13" and promptly updated it to Ventura. It worked and then I skipped town for 2 weeks for winter break. I went to add a second user to it and the screen blanked out. I noticed opening and closing the lid will sometimes get the screen back. Then it might flicker or do odd things. I'll post some screen grabs below. Any idea what this is? Is this a bad Logic\Video Card, or Flex Cable\Display, or T-Con, or something else? Guy I bought it from said it wasn't experiencing this issue, and he is right, it wasn't doing it when I got it, but I used it for maybe 1-2 hours at most, then put in in the box for 2 weeks until today. I even re-formated the drive and was reinstalling ventura, and then it Crashed. Then it forced me to reinstall High Sierra, so thought i would give that a try, but it's doing the same thing which tells me this is a hardware issue. I was leaning toward it needing a new logic board. I ran the Diagnostics and of course it showed everything fine. I think next stop is apple store.
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