What happened:
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I got a Macbook from a friend.
According to him, one day it was working fine and at the end of the day he shut down the Macbook normally and next day morning the Macbook didn't turn on.
2 weeks later I got it from him, and it was left alone with battery out for that period, and when I got home I just plug the charger and pushed the power button and it turned on!
Everything worked fine, I installed snow leopard and updated the system via software update menu (there was a firmware update available for it).
It worked great for a week, absolutely great. Everything was fine and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Until just yesterday I shut down the Macbook normally and next day it didn't turn on!
What I've done so far:
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I tried to reset SMC by removing the battery and un-pluging the charger then holding the power button for 5 sec. (to be sure I repeated that and hold it for more than 5 sec.) but nothing happened.
I tried removing charger from the wall outlet and let it rest then plug it to the Macbook (without battery on) and again nothing.
I tried different RAM modules, nothing.
The "restart after power failure" was disabled.
Also the "schedule turn on" wasn't on.
I changed these settings by putting the HDD into another Mac, but when I put it back it didn't do anything. Maybe the Macbook has to be turned on once to read those settings. So those options are out too.
Taking this to an Apple store or a Authorised service centre is a lot of hassle specially at this time of year. And considering what happened I'm pretty sure there is no hardware failure but some sort of software malfunction.
I have another Macbook available and I can exchange parts so let me know if there is something I can try.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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I got a Macbook from a friend.
According to him, one day it was working fine and at the end of the day he shut down the Macbook normally and next day morning the Macbook didn't turn on.
2 weeks later I got it from him, and it was left alone with battery out for that period, and when I got home I just plug the charger and pushed the power button and it turned on!
Everything worked fine, I installed snow leopard and updated the system via software update menu (there was a firmware update available for it).
It worked great for a week, absolutely great. Everything was fine and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Until just yesterday I shut down the Macbook normally and next day it didn't turn on!
What I've done so far:
-------------------------
I tried to reset SMC by removing the battery and un-pluging the charger then holding the power button for 5 sec. (to be sure I repeated that and hold it for more than 5 sec.) but nothing happened.
I tried removing charger from the wall outlet and let it rest then plug it to the Macbook (without battery on) and again nothing.
I tried different RAM modules, nothing.
The "restart after power failure" was disabled.
Also the "schedule turn on" wasn't on.
I changed these settings by putting the HDD into another Mac, but when I put it back it didn't do anything. Maybe the Macbook has to be turned on once to read those settings. So those options are out too.
Taking this to an Apple store or a Authorised service centre is a lot of hassle specially at this time of year. And considering what happened I'm pretty sure there is no hardware failure but some sort of software malfunction.
I have another Macbook available and I can exchange parts so let me know if there is something I can try.
Any suggestions?
Thanks