MacBook 13-inch lines on screen

[SimonMacbook13]

My MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010) has been running fine for several years with no issues and all of a sudden lines have appeared in the left hand side making part of the screen near impossible to use.

I have tried all of the following to try and fix but nothing seems to work.

- Rest PRAM
- Rest NVRAM
- Cleaned out dust from fans
- Pressed screen to see if it changes (it doesn't)

I can't think of anything else to try, has anyone else experienced and fixed this issues?

Appreciate any help its driving me crazy.

 

[Rapp]

If its a screen fault it won't show on a screenshot. Sounds like the panel has become faulty, looking at a new screen if so.

Can you connect to an external monitor?

 

[elf69]

i agree with above.

try external monitor if possible.

screens panel on ebay for £40

 

[SimonMacbook13]

Thank you for your replies, I will see if I can hook it up to an external monitor (need to get the converter cable).

Any ideas on what could have caused the panel to become faulty?

 

[Rapp]

Usually transistors that control the pixels fail, sometimes it can be a cascade effect with the ones next to each other. The controller(s) for those row(s) can also fail. This shows as artefacts (dead pixels), bands or lines down the screen.

7 years is a good run to be fair, some get screens with faulty pixels on brand new machines.

 

[SimonMacbook13]

The issue was resolved by changing out the screen. I did it myself but I now have the issue of it being way to bright even on the lowest display setting.

I thought I could reduce the brightness further by loading up the display control panel in system preferences but I get this error:

Could not load Displays preference pane.


Any suggestions?