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Macbook Pro 2011 15" colorful vertical lines and white screen of death

I opened my laptop this morning to lots of colorful vertical lines dancing across the screen. I tried to restart it but only got a white screen. I tried all of the restart options I could find but nothing worked. I got variations of vertical lines or green/grey/white screens. No apple logo within site.


Past modifications include replacing the hard drive with a 1TB SSD a few years ago, and within the last two years Apple replaced the graphics card.


Advice would be greatly appreciated. I would love to keep this machine working for a while yet, I don't have money to replace it.


Thanks in advance!



MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.13

Posted on Jun 12, 2019 5:21 AM

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Posted on Jun 12, 2019 9:32 AM

Ok... After I tried to run the hardware test I decided to try and run the disk utility again (restarting while holding down Command + R), just to see, and that magic apple logo appeared. There were no issues with the disk utility so I restarted the laptop and now everything appears to be fine. I have no idea what happened, but the issue is now resolved.


Thanks for the advice!

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Jun 12, 2019 9:32 AM in response to AlanaAnne

Ok... After I tried to run the hardware test I decided to try and run the disk utility again (restarting while holding down Command + R), just to see, and that magic apple logo appeared. There were no issues with the disk utility so I restarted the laptop and now everything appears to be fine. I have no idea what happened, but the issue is now resolved.


Thanks for the advice!

Macbook Pro 2011 15" colorful vertical lines and white screen of death

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