Imac LCD Help

Hi Guys, well its been almost 5 months that lines have started occurring on my Imac LCD.. however i know its expensive to repair so i did not care initially. However recently i bought the cable to mirror another lcd display to my imac as the LCD started to have alot of flickers.. This is my question.. anyone knows if my Imac LCD displays blacks out.. do you think the mirroring of LCD will be affected?

It mostly depends on where the problem is. If the problem is the video controller, then, yes if one display goes out the other will also, because the controller feeds both the internal LCD and the external display. If the problem is just the internal LCD display itself, if it goes out your external display may still work.

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