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civic gate Oct 23, 2025, 8:15 PM

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hello my imacs display is flickering on the desktop like the brigtness it getting adjusted really fastly but nie turning on and off and sometimes my screen gets inresponsive and gets darker and blue vertical lines appear on the screen. it goes away after a few second and then it repeats after some time. i have dissasmbeled it to replace the ssd. this has not been a problem before and it only appeared now. sometimes theres no problem amd works fine but some times this happens. looks like this but this is not my picture i found it online

dire bone Oct 23, 2025, 8:19 PM

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could be a problem with the display connector, or ram.

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This ain't really something anyone here can help since its mostly hardware related

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I recommend going to an apple store.

civic gate Oct 23, 2025, 8:31 PM

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should i try and nvram and smc or what reset? its working now but i dont know when it will come back

dire bone Oct 23, 2025, 8:40 PM

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civic gate should i try and nvram and smc or what reset? its working now but i dont know wh...

I don't know what those are

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someone with a higher knowledge about computers could most definitely help

civic gate Oct 23, 2025, 8:41 PM

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i asked in other servers they said its a graphics card issue they say its dying

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it is 12 years old tho

dire bone Oct 23, 2025, 8:42 PM

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it could be that

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well, I can help any further.

civic gate Oct 23, 2025, 8:48 PM

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ok

sacred tusk Oct 23, 2025, 9:55 PM

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civic gate hello my imacs display is flickering on the desktop like the brigtness it gettin...

Old iMacs have problematic GPUs

civic gate Oct 23, 2025, 9:57 PM

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so it was inevitable

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