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Hi there. So, yesterday I was working on my laptop with it hooked up to a monitor and all of a sudden the screen goes black, but not as if there was no power, it was still dimly lit but it wasn’t showing any icons or anything. Now, if I hook it up to my monitor and close the laptop lid, it will display fine on the monitor. But if I open the lid then the monitor display goes grey (but I can see and move the mouse curser) and the laptop display is still black. Then today, it began working fine again until I tried to exit fullscreen from a YouTube video and then boom, black screen again. If I start up the laptop I will hear the sound, the back apple logo lights up and the keyboard lights up, all as normal, only the display is black. I have tried all the SMC and PRAM resets but to no avail. Anything else I can try? Maybe a loose connection since it started working again and then stopped? I am praying it is something that I can fix myself and don’t have to fork out ££ for.
Sorry about your Mac! Attempt to first update your OS, as his may well be a bug. When you had your computer plugged to a monitor, did the flickering carry over to it? Or was it only on the Mac’s built-in display?
