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My granddaughter dropped my MacBook Pro (A1260) and obviously damaged something. It now has a series of vertical lines and bars near the center of the display including a 1-inch black vertical bar, a 3/4-inch white vertical bar to its right and a 1.5-inch wide region made up of fine vertical lines of various colors. Behind the vertical bars, the desktop displays normally and the computer works with no other indication of problems. Can anyone tell me what damage might cause bars like this to appear on the display and what might be necessary to repair it? Thanks, –Kenoli
There isn’t much way to isolate this to filter on data line to LCD, GPU, or the LCD itself. They are all equally culpable. This machine comes with a known bad GPU, and also a first generation notebook LED backlit panel(apple beat the industry to LED backlit laptop screens by about 3 years) which were really easy broken. I would suggest trying a new LCD first, but do keep in mind that it is a miracle the GPU in this machine still works and that it can die at any time before you invest money into it.
