MacBook Pro – Fix Bottom Part of Screen Mirroring Top
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Making the computer sleep will remove this symptom for a while.
Tried disabling hardware acceleration (GPU) via setting or gSwitch, resetting SMC and PRAM/NVRAM, and rebooting. Apple diagnostics has not been identifying any issues.
Best Answer
Wow - unless you’re sure it’s software, I would get it to Apple Service for a look. One method to perform a quick check is boot to recovery - hold option and R. If the firmware screen is broken, you know it’s GPU / CPU.
If the firmware screen is perfect, you would want to back up and then perform an erase install. It’s possible hardware failure could happen only when all graphic drivers are fully loaded and optimized / accelerated.
I took the computer to the AppleStore, seeing it was only about three weeks old, and got them to take a look at it. Since it's a company computer I had some company benefits granting me a temporary replacement while they were fixing mine. I took my TimeMachine copy and restored it on to the borrowed Mac. I was surprised to find that the issue still appeared, which was quite annoying. So I restored the Mac again, messed around with the pmsetsettings and tried to reproduce the issue but it was impossible.
I then remembered that the issue started appearing a few days ago when I did a battery calibration (Drained the Mac completely) so I restored to a TimeMachine backup from before that and Boom, the issue was gone. At about the same time they called from the store and said that they couldn't reproduce the issue, so I told them what I had found, came in and got my computer back.
All in all, a really weird story but apparently something related to draining the battery while the computer was still on got corrupted and was then included in the TimeMachine backup.
Apple has launched MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues which can be found here
Apple has determined that a small percentage of MacBook Pro systems may exhibit distorted video, no video, or unexpected system restarts. These MacBook Pro systems were sold between February 2011 and December 2013.
Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will repair affected MacBook Pro systems, free of charge.
Best Answer
Wow - unless you’re sure it’s software, I would get it to Apple Service for a look. One method to perform a quick check is boot to recovery - hold option and R. If the firmware screen is broken, you know it’s GPU / CPU.
If the firmware screen is perfect, you would want to back up and then perform an erase install. It’s possible hardware failure could happen only when all graphic drivers are fully loaded and optimized / accelerated.