Horizontal lines on display unless lid half closed

Horizontal lines on display unless lid half closed This is my work computer that lives in my drawer. No wear and tear to speak of (other than opening and closing the lid). Opened the lid mid-day one day and horizontal lines completely cover the display.
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Guest [Entry]

"I doubt it will be this easy.

To save another 1/10 inch of thickness, Apple choose to put the LCD TCON board in the bottom and run the LCD row flex cables over the hinge, Running a flex cable, instead of just round cables through require a spring loaded reel mechanism to reel the cables in and out. If the reel is stuck or slow, the cables are pulled or wrinkled up, potentially causing damage. Only the display eDP cable (internal DisplayPort - iDP) is a socket connection, the rest is directly soldered together.

The eDP cable from the motherboard to the TCON board is just over the CPU heatsink, there are additional cables that are socked to the TCON board and run in to the display, these are likely just backlight and are not relevant, however they can be line select cables that may have something to do with the glitch.

If it is flex cable damage, you may need to replace the whole upper section with hinge and TCON board as there is no way to get to the screen end of the flex cables."

Guest [Entry]

Not that this helps, but I’ve had the same problem - twice. In fact this MacBook Pro (late 2016 model) has had so many problems. Firstly 3 or 4 keys had to be replaced because they kept on falling off, and then the whole keyboard was replace. Then around 4 months ago, horizontal lines started appearing on the screen just like you describe. They were intimitant, but I hadn’t realised it was due to the connection in the hinge. Thankfully I took out AppleCare for 3 years, and they replaced the display and board. But just a week ago the problem has returned. It definitely changes depending on the angle of the display, but today it’s even worse, and the lines don’t go until I put the display at a very low angle.

Guest [Entry]

Have this problem as well from a Mac 2016 model purchased late 2017. Out of the warrantee period.

Guest [Entry]

Just got the same issue with my MBP touchbar 15 2016. I looked around the web and found a dedicated page for this #flexgate issue:

Guest [Entry]

Got this issue as well on my MBP 15 2016. Apparently they are calling it the ‘Flexgate’.