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Today I opened google chrome after a skype call and suddenly my screen turned black. I rebooted and it gives the chime, I type in the password (blind) and the keyboard lights turn on. When I hit some buttons I get the error sound. So all that is working. But the fans aren’t working and my macbook is basically silent. It is on but it isn’t… i’ve worked as a specialist for the apple store so I know quite some things. I’ve done all the reset and key combinations but nothing works. Also good to mention is that the usb devices still work…. I really don’t understand this. does anyone have any idea what this could be?
Fans on that model just get in motion after a while, therefore unless you waited for some minutes fans may be working normal. Try plugging your Mac on an external monitor/TV, if you get the image there it might be a screen or backlight issue. You can confirm or rule out a backlight problem by pointing a light source to the screen, if you have a dimmed image then it’s a backlight issue.
