MacBook screen flickering and after while it freezes with blue screen

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MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Mid 2015

2.2 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz), 2.5 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.7 GHz), or 2.8 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 4.0 GHz) quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 6 MB shared L3 cache and an optional AMD Radeon R9 M370X dGPU.

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MacBook screen flickering and after while it freezes with blue screen

Hello i recently bought used macbook from internet

Works very find but when i use macbook sometimes screen flicker

i dont know what cause this but i didnt care about it(it happens 1~2times while using 4-5h)

but suddenly it stopped with blue screen or pink brown or some other color

It was working fine until last week so seller is innocent (at least i think so)

I tried nvram reset/reinstall mac os/smc reset/auto graphic change? Disabled

Is there some way to fix it please help me

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2025-04-26T06:32:30-07:00

Dan @danj

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There are two versions of this series one with just the iGPU (Intel chip graphics engine) and the other with a AMD GPU chip. Do you know which you have? Here's a listing of this series:

If you take the bottom cover off you can see the difference in the heat sink as it will either only have one chip pad or two. Follow this guide to get it off MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Mid 2015 Lower Case Replacement

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I think it is dgpu model

today it restart after freeze with white screen and it says macbook restart because of crash

I tried apple diagnostics but no error detected

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@suck24877 Can you take the bottom cover off and take a couple of good photo's so we can see, posting them here.

If you got a crash report that would be helpful when diagnostics doesn't pop an error. From the sounds of it it sounds like the GPU maybe failing or just overheating. Are you up to cleaning the logic board and re-pasting the thermal paste on both the CPU and GPU if present.

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