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My screen looks like an old end of the night TV with fuzzy lines. I tried to bypass it with an HDMI to the tv but the lines showed up on the tv too. Could it be something loose inside? How do I bypass the screen? My computer is newly updated 2 mos ago. help. No computer stores are open with the virus thing.
OK lets make sure its the display! Can you plug in an external display? If the external screen looks good then your display is bad! You’ll need a new one Unibody MacBook Pro 13" Complete Display (2011) Used Grade-B, Apple P/N 661-5868. Here’s the guide to put it in MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Early 2011 Display Replacement If your external fails to show a clean image, sadly the GPU has failed, this is a common in this series. If you want to keep this great system running I would recommend jumping to the newer 2012 logic board! MacBook Pro 13" Logic Board, 2.9GHz i7 (12) Used, Apple P/N 661-6589 it has a much better GPU and depending on what CPU you have this board offers a nice boost in performance! MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Early 2011 Logic Board Replacement. The is a slight modification needed for the display cable as the newer boards use a different manufacture of connector while pin compatible, are a little smaller. the edges of the connector is ever so slightly needs to be filed away.
Dang sounds like your GPU is shot
