My Macbook computer screen goes black while I am working with plenty of power

For the last few months my computer screen suddenly goes black while I am working even though it has more than 35% power. It will resume working only after I have connected the charger to the computer and waited for five minutes at least. I have to then start the computer using the power button

Macbook (2015 or later)

Posted on Jan 14, 2019 6:43 PM

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Tesserax

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Jan 15, 2019 10:11 AM in response to shyamfromny

At this point, I would suggest that you try resetting the SMC on your Mac notebook.

How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

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