MacBook display flickering, stripes. Help much appreciated :)
Hi guys,
Here's to hoping there's a solution I haven't tried... This morning, I opened up my laptop and suddenly the screen started flickering. Meaning: it never turns black, just same display as usual but seems to be shaking/flickering continuously, especially white areas are unbearable on the eye.
Symptoms:
- Grey horizontal lines randomly appear (as I type, two appear exactly on the spot where I'm typing)
- The apple logo seems somehow 'imprinted' on the desktop (see photos). It won't go away, not even at the log in screen. You can also detect a square and some sort of cirkel on top of it, if you look carefully.
- It gets a little less annoying when I turn down brightness.
- It seems unrelated to apps. It's unresponsive to any possible solution.
- When I connect my macbook to an external display, there is no problem at all.
What I've tried:
- Deleting Firefox (I read this could cause trouble)
- Normal reset, normal shutdown
- SMC reset
- NVPRAM reset
- Apple Diagnostics test, incl. disk utility first aid
- Running in safe mode
- Creating a new user account
- Deleting Mac OSX and reinstalling
I swear I did nothing with this laptop. I left it on the couch as I always do. It was in sleep mode. When I opened the lid, this was happening.
About the laptop:
- Macbook (Retina, 12 inch, early 2016)
- Processor 1,1 GHz intel core m3
- Memory 8 GB 1867 MHz LPDDR3
- Graphicscard Intel HD Graphics 515 1536 MB
- Serienumber C0***TJ1
Photos:
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MacBook, macOS Mojave (10.14.1)