Display black but powers on and functional

Hi Dan, thanks for the comment. I forgot to add that before the screen went completely black, there was a few minutes where the stagelights were visible and white, and the right half of the screen was dark with some light spots.

Also, when I opened it up today after a few days of leaving it, the screen did turn on and the apple logo and green vertical lines were visible, so the screen was on. Once I opened it fully the screen then went black and I couldn’t get it to work since.

Based on all of this, is it still not a flexgate issue? I’m persisting on this as I would like to see if Apple could potentially give me a warranty exception to fix this. Otherwise I would be interested in getting one this site’s assemblies to do it myself. Thanks again.

@chilling35632 - Let’s define what FlexGate was, it only effected the 2016 & 2017 13” MacBook Pro systems. So clearly the backlight issue Apple had with a short ribbon cable is not your issue here. In any case Apple was replacing the display assembly, while some tech tried to patch the backlight cable in these systems the fix was not very good and often failed soon afterwards. We had a small number of cables which could be replaced but the needed skills and tools was not something a person would have (think brain surgery level skills). So that was the Apples FlexGate mess.

While your issue could be damaged cables as well, this is related to an event which damaged them. As I expressed a good bang, something pressed on the lid causing it to crack, hard cases which clip over the edge being the larger causes. The one I didn’t give you was the front chin plate under the screen got crushed by closing the lid on a paperclip or something.

So the damage is done, fixing things requires a new display no matter what did you in. At best we could call it son of FlexGate😫 Apple won’t fix this under warranty or extended warranty.