If you’re feeling up to opening your system and having a look, here’s the guide you’ll want to use (and you can skip steps 11–14, after opening the top case, since you’re only in there to inspect and not remove anything). Given that you recently acquired this, either the previous owner did some tinkering of their own and ran into a problem like this, or the last repair service did a lousy job of making sure everything was seated properly and not obstructed. Taking the “don’t panic!” approach, I’ve gone back to inspect everything and made sure anything which could get in the way is kept out of the way (such as a tiny bit of overlapping kapton tape or plastic). Here’s the iFixit close-up of that cable in the PowerBook on which I’ve had this issue:Īnd here’s iFixit’s close-up of the same cable in your MacBook Pro:Įach time my display looked like this after putting it back together, it’s freaked me out and made me worry that I ruined a critical component.

With the MacBook Pro, there’s a clear, tape-like covering over the LVDS cable, which more or less does the same task of protecting the wires inside and keeping the cable from moving about over time.

Specifically, it’s because (at least in my case) a tiny bit of the yellow kapton tape applied at the factory to hold the display cable in place got caught between the LVDS plug and the board receptacle when I reassembled everything. For me, it has occurred after reassembling the system after performing a repair or adding in new thermal paste, and the reason has to do with the LVDS display cable being improperly seated where it plugs into the logic board. I have experienced this very kind of artifacting with one of my laptops, a late 2005 PowerBook G4.

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