Hey man, weird as it is, I’m in the same damn boat as you.

My screen on the SC17 went bad as well. Displaying vertical lines and flickering like crazy.

Would like to replace screen as well, works fine on external monitor.

Any ideas?

Seriously guys? It happened to me too today.
I'm panicking, I dont know what to do.

Wth is with EVGA laptops. There was a permanent line artifact happened sometime 2 years ago, but too small and I can ignore it.

My laptop: SC17 GTX 1070 4K

Explanation:
- Was just watching an anime while browsing the net
- The charger was unplug (I forgot) and it went to sleep mode
- So I plug the charger and turn it on again. From then the screen just went crazy (vertical artifacts throughout the entire screen)
- Attached one of the Artifact picture. Its all slim line artifacts, but there are other forms too on other occassions.

What I've done:
- I press cmos button and when its on, artifact return
- Restart / Turn off laptop, same issue when its on
- Tried System Restore, the soon after it happened again
- Want to try check GFX driver, but before I get the chance, artifact again
** basically I can get the screen to turn on briefly (all normal) but after several minutes, the artifact would return

What I want to try:
Go to safe mode and try things there.

I dont know what to suspect, but there was a windows update earlier, thats why I wanted to try system restore, but couldnt complete.
I also havent try on external monitor.

What can I do? This is too scary.
Please help.

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried the Bios reset above the power button. It's a tiny little hole right above the power button and
whenever I experience weird behavior out of my SC17 that seems to provide a fix.
 

Here's a search result that might provide you with more info based upon previous posts here. Make sure you set the forum to show all posts 'from the beginning' at the bottom.

Mayora13
 
Do you have a better solution to this?

I don't, sorry. But perhaps someone else here can provide some insight.
 

Mayora13
Any comment from EVGA at all?

This is a user to user forum. If you want a comment from EVGA, contact EVGA directly.
https://www.evga.com/about/contactus/

So, I know this is like 5 months ths later but I just tore my SC17 apart tonight. Mine is a 1070 with the 4K display. I got the part number b173zan01.0 off of it. That part number is readily available from multiple places and was used for more than just the EVGA laptop. Unfortunately like others the glass screen protector cracked on mine. I got it about 90% of the way off and then when I got to the bottom corner the cover cracked. I just figure I'll get another screen and some good vinyl to use as a screen protector. I REALLY want my laptop back for full time use. Because it's my personal laptop the IT person at work doesn't touch it. And because of that I don't have issues with it like all the company owned machines.

Kulkiet
so is it display or connector /cable /im having same issue and the screen goes back to normal if you try to twist bang screen .im just thinking to get external screen? btw there is rubber washer around, where do you start removing it.not sure if my wife dropped it sinc emy kid plays too many games

Mine is the screen. Once I had the screen out I could twist the screen itself and make it work. But once it heats up to a certain point it just shows lines no matter what. I tried moving the cable and it made no difference at all. As far as removal you just have to get a small screw driver or pry tool under the glass screen protector. It was the easiest to start on the sides or at the top. But there is a lot of adhesive around the bottom and it'll break during removal and be aware it is glass and splinters all over. Then you can easily remove the screen with 4 screws. Unfortunately there is no replacement for the screen protector that I'm aware of.

There are places out there selling 'replacement' screens, but I am loathe to post them here....You can google search them....found one place for 260ish bucks for a screen.

No idea how solid the vendor is...and I won't post it because of that...do it at your own risk.
 

saccaed
For now I'm more interested in inspecting the screen and related bits to see if there is any hope in solving the issue through diagnosis and fixing(backlight works, screen pixels appear fine, the issue seems to be confined to the bits that handle mainboard signal to screen pixels).

The bits that handle decoding the information and sending it to the correct row and column are 'chip on flex' usually.
They are essentially unfeasible to repair or diagnose. They are silicon chips bonded directly to the ribbon cable which is then bonded directly to the screen. Maybe someone with lab equipment somewhere can replace a ribbon cable, but you're talking about a specialty thing for a specialty part. Finding the part and the equipment and the specialist would probably cost you much more in the long run.

vistarshook
I mentioned it in another thread, but I did have to replace the panel on my SC17 GTX 1080.....I did not manage to remove the screen protector without breaking it to pieces... it is kind of like tempered glass used on phones....cracks easily.  But at at least the screen is working....I just used black tape around the corners for the bezel.  Nowadays the machine is used as a desktop replacement only with a  g sync 144Hz monitor, keyboard, etc....so I don't get frustrated anymore looking at the replacement screen without the proper finishing.  My keyboard on the notebook went bad as well, some keys stopped working, but I also successfully replaced that.   One mini displaypor outputt also stopped working, but there is two, so still works with one g sync monitor.
I do want to upgrade to a desktop eventually, but since graphics cards are impossible too find and the performance of the GTX 1080 is really good for my needs at the moment, the machine is still hanging in there and doing it's job. When travelling the razer blade with gtx 1060 also plays all the games I want fine.
Perhaps next generation RTX might be the the time to retire the SC17 and donate it to some kid.

vistarshook
I mentioned it in another thread, but I did have to replace the panel on my SC17 GTX 1080.....I did not manage to remove the screen protector without breaking it to pieces... it is kind of like tempered glass used on phones....cracks easily.  But at at least the screen is working....I just used black tape around the corners for the bezel.  Nowadays the machine is used as a desktop replacement only with a  g sync 144Hz monitor, keyboard, etc....so I don't get frustrated anymore looking at the replacement screen without the proper finishing.  My keyboard on the notebook went bad as well, some keys stopped working, but I also successfully replaced that.   One mini displaypor outputt also stopped working, but there is two, so still works with one g sync monitor.
I do want to upgrade to a desktop eventually, but since graphics cards are impossible too find and the performance of the GTX 1080 is really good for my needs at the moment, the machine is still hanging in there and doing it's job. When travelling the razer blade with gtx 1060 also plays all the games I want fine.
Perhaps next generation RTX might be the the time to retire the SC17 and donate it to some kid.

how do u connect to external screen ?just purchased new msi mag27qrf-qd for my kid (free game daying ligth 2 70$  with it so good deal for me)


I did use HDMI but im thinking to get Mini display port to dp ,looks like NVidia driver don't recognize gsync compatibility for new monitor, maybe new firmware changes it