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otherguy5

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Original poster
Feb 2, 2015
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My Macbook Pro screen has recently gone dark, with light vertical lines appearing intermittently.

Weird thing is, when I restarted, the log in screen appears (with flickering horizontal lines), and when I log on, that's when it goes dark.

Anyone experience this and know what to do? I don't want to go to the Apple store and be ripped off, if there's really a simple solution to this.
[doublepost=1568231862][/doublepost]It looks like this btw

https://imgur.com/zqDSXWN
 
You did not mention what year that MBP is. But wild guess, GPU issues, failed or failing, particularly if an older model.

See if you can do a hardware test. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257

It's a Macbook Pro 13 inch, 2017.

I doubt it's a GPU issue. Since the issue seems to have resolved itself (I just opened it again, and the screen is normal). Plus... this is new, I bought it November of 2018.
 
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