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The April 2014 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Air features refreshed dual-core i5 and i7 processors, plus slightly increased battery performance.

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Only backlight on startup, after randomly cutting out while powered on

After the screen randomly cut out while powered on, only leaving the backlight on during use, I have not been able to get any picture since. As far as I'm concerned there has been no severe water damage to this computer. However living in a humid environment may be the cause of some corrosion but from the looks of it there is no corrosion on the board.

I've tried (with no luck)

  • SMC Reset
  • NVRAM Reset
  • Tried to boot in safe mode (unsuccessful)
  • Did a full teardown to check for signs of water damage, besides a tiny amount of corrosion no severe water damage was found.
  • Booting up to an external drive with an OS installed
  • Connecting another display

TLDR: The startup sound will play, but only the backlight will turn on, and the caps lock light will not turn on.

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