Hi guys, hope you are in town,

 

Just turned on on my 7 or 8-year old MacBook Pro and got this. Can’t / don’t know enough to get rid of this half screen covering artifact. Rebooted several times, okay yesterday.

 

Please don’t go to town on my anti-virus. Plus .... help!

 

 

 

 

That looks like you have broken display connectors. My 2nd guess is broken display. 

 

Get someone to open the laptop, disconnect and reconnect the cables. Perhaps the issue goes away. 

 

Edit: Why there is 1cm of empty space between top of the screen and your finder window? The same seems to happen on the bottom of the screen as well. 

 

Some more advanced hardware folks might be able to figure out what is really going on by those black spots. 

Oilinki, thanks. I’ll go to Tukcom tomorrow, any suggestions where?). I just want the laptop to feed movies to my tv.

Your further questions - don’t know.

Don't blame me if it does not work, but there is a possible easy fix. My neighbor, the flight engineer, called it "technical tab".

My description: Switch if off and slap the screen with your hand. Turn it on again. If you are lucky all will look ok again. On the other hand if you are unlucky the rest of the screen will look similar...

 

Bad odds.

Oh yeah, my mouse clicks disappear under the new guest.

17 hours ago, NewGuy said:

Oilinki, thanks. I’ll go to Tukcom tomorrow, any suggestions where?). I just want the laptop to feed movies to my tv.

Let us know how it worked out for you. If you go to a authorised Apple shop, they'll probably want to replace every part on your computer, which costs stupid money. 

 

The real professionals can fix the problems, without giving a 25.000 baht bill. 

 

Here is one example. Apple Geniuses: $1200, real repair person $35. 

https://imgur.com/gallery/ldkDTHd

 

I do love my MBA as it's the best laptop I have ever owned. I don't like the Apple authorised shops, who are simply there to take the money. 

 

 

 

That gives me hope. Just off to Tukcom’s Pattaya 2U. Any other places? Taking the iPad with me.

 

Whew!

 

The mbp with 17 inch display was diagnosed as having a broken screen; Eastern IT, across from JIB, will call me to pick it up in four days. 6,000 Baht.  I also got two quotes at the other place: 10,000 for a used screen, 16,000 for a new one. 

 

Will never get back the hours I spent on InvadeIT, JIB, Tom’s Hardware and Tech Radar researching. Some choices were terrific, but all new toys ran very hot, and noisy.  

 

Cheers.

 

Oh yeah, when I told the P4U guy I’d rather toss it than pay 16,000, he almost fainted (‘It’s still very good’), haha.