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Hi all.
Hope someone can help me to determine whether my 2007 Macbook pro is worth trying to save or i should just ebay for spares or repair..
I never fully shut down the machine, more for convenience than anything else but yesterday found when waking it from sleep i had no display. This happened about two weeks ago but when i pressed the F2 brightness button on the keyboard the display suddenly came on so thought no more about it. Unfortunately this didn't work yesterday and i could get no response from any other key or keys so the only option left was to shut it down and reboot, which it did with no problems and worked flawlessly for about three hours. I then had a lazy lunch leaving the machine running, expecting as i have done before for the machine to do its power save setting thing. On my return it would not come back to life so thinking it was repeating it earlier problem shut the whole thing down to reboot. On pressing the power button it tries to start up but this lasts for about two and a half seconds then dies. I can hear the initial spooling of the hdd and optical drive but then stops dead. Battery, tho no longer at it best is fully charged. Magsafe is working green light on plug. Dose the same on battery power or using magsafe.
My initial thought was a hard drive failure but then the machine would still start just not boot into osx. Please correct me if im wrong.
So after googling the problem and trawling the forums reading similar problems and possible causes i.e hdd failure, logic board failure, etc, im still none the wiser.
Any help or advise will be much appreciated
MacBookpro 15"
2.4 intel core 2 duo
2gb Ram
200gb hdd

Thanks for the quick response sig. How would the display effect the power up of the machine tho?
Hmm.... another possible to add to the list.
I was hoping maybe the symptoms pointed to a probable cause. seems like it could be many tho. Bugger! dont want to spend money for someone to tell me its Knackered then tell me its going to cost a small fortune to fix.
I bought it second hand with a couple of months apple care left but that has long since expired.
I shall sleep on it.....

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