MacBook Pro strange battery issue?

I have a MacBook Pro 2.5 A1260 early 2008. It will not boot unless I take out the battery.
After it's up and I put the battery back in it doesn't show in the profiler. If I shut it down I can't restart with the battery installed. Anyone have an idea here?

Either a bad battery or a defective DC input board (charging circuit) could cause the symptoms you described.

chscag said:

Either a bad battery or a defective DC input board (charging circuit) could cause the symptoms you described.

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The battery shows four lights and was charging on Friday, there's power to the F/W ports with the Mag Safe connected, One other thing is the sleep function seems to be going haywire too. Maybe a logic board? Also the only way I could boot it today was to connect a F/W drive however it booted to the internal drive, I tried to zap PRAM but it just passed that up and booted.

It could very well be the logic board. Try resetting the SMC to see if that helps. LINK

chscag said:

It could very well be the logic board. Try resetting the SMC to see if that helps. LINK

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I did this very early on, I was hoping for a firmware fix of some kind. These logic boards are a little pricey