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- 2.6GHz Core i7 15" MacBook Pro - 8GB DDR3 SDRAM - 750GB 7200 RPM HDD - GeForce 650M GT 1GB VRAM
Okay, so I came back from lab earlier today when I took my laptop out of my bag to find that the machine would not turn on. Baffled by this, I plugged it into a power outlet using my AC adaptor, and sure enough it worked! Except my computer was acting as if it had no memory of system settings, and when I logged in it had the clock set to the default Unix 0-time all macs arrive thinking is correct. I soon discovered that the computer would not run off the battery at all, and when I next turned it on it had every bit of amnesia. And now I notice that even a lot of my programs have lost their settings (though I reset the NVRAM as an attempt to brute-force the issue if it could be solved in so simple a manner, so that may have caused it). Has anyone encountered this sort of thing before and had it not be a hardware issue that they had to send it to Apple for? Well, I'll take whatever advice I can get from you guys.