Graphical hardware defect (?)

Hi Community,
I hope that you can help me with this following problem:
At the beginning of january i gave my Mac Book Pro to an apple-certified repair
in hope they could solve a few defects of which i still don't know where they are coming from.
The screen appears in a strange flickering, mostly only when I exit standby. (in both cases, with and without opened laptop)
This problem existed before the repair and still after.
The flickering disappears when i move the display.
Sometimes the screen even remained black after exiting and I had to close the display and open again repeatedly.
I could also notice that sometimes the standby led illuminated wrongly. With closed display the laptop was working and with opened the standby started.
The repairman thought it was a logic board defect, so he replaced it.
After I could finally work again with my mac (yesterday) i must acknowledge that nothing was ok yet.
During operation suddenly the whole screen looked like one of those gameboyscreens in older times when the cartridge has been dirty and unreadable.
At the same time the led flashed and you could hear a "TUT, TUT, TUT" 3 times before the laptop was shut down.
When I tried to reboot, the acoustic signal came and it was shut down again.
Today I've tried to start my mac again. At first it has started with a black screen. After the second try it worked almost normally except the flickering...
Does anyone know from experience which technical problem i'm faced with and
what is to be done? Could the graphic card be the malefactor?
Thank you in advance.

Hi Christian, you're correct, the switch has warranty. You should call the Cisco small business support and ask for RMA.
Before doing do, I'd recommend to ensure you're on the lastest software 1.0.6.2 and factory default reset this switch. If the problem persist after then request RMA.
-Tom
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