Thunderbolt display multiple problems

just as has happened with my MBA and another MBP in the family, a T-Bolt display has gone downhill less than a month out of warranty. (The laptops required expensive repairs.) One day recently the display brightness diminished suddenly to much less than the MBA 13" sitting beside it. And now when I plug the MBA back in to the display, the latter fails to illuminate. So I have to fiddle around with (un)plugging and restarting to get my dim display to come on. This is definitely not because of low power from an outlet. Hopefully, there's some sw solution.

I found an extra thunderbolt cable I had from a portable tb drive. Plugged it in to the open port on the display and lo and behold, it works. So I guess that means the cable assembly built in to the display (that splits between tb and power connector) is the defective part here. anyone else had this problem?

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hey,
i'm having problems with my mac setup. i've got two thunderbolt displays, hooked to a 15" mbp retina laptop.
i've got my iphone hooked to one of the usb ports of the display then i've got a keyboard, a superdrive and a charger for my magic mouse hooked to the displays as well as a firewire hd. two usb 3 hard drives are hooked directly to the mbp.
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Hi Sir,
I bought thunderbolt display yesterday. I think there can be problem that added. Sometimes i see image flickering. I havent see before display.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/692wjw2zfnhss26/IMG_0733.MOV
Can I learn your ideas.
Thanks.
Deniz

Hello Deniz YILMAZ,
The following article can help resolve many issues that you may encounter with your display.
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1573
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Link Status:          7
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Just to be clear, have you installed everything that you find on this page?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4644
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2) http://cl.ly/image/2g0n1M1Y0t0g
3) http://cl.ly/image/2Q2P1c1J220d
4) http://cl.ly/image/113b3K2O1Z43
5) http://cl.ly/image/1q2v1s1n3w1f
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I'll cancel that one though, as I was able to cure it by myself for now (and carrying around a 27" iMac in Munich's busy downtown pedestrian zone is not really fun).
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In Display Settings, I switched the external display back to landscape mode and selected "mirror displays".
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