2009 unibody macbook with rubber back will not turn on. power adaptor shows charge
My macbook died while I was watching netflix. I plugged it in to the wall and tried to turn it on but nothing happened. It would not turn on, but the power adapter showed orange, like it was charging. I decided to leave it until morning. The light had turned green and showed it had charged, and still nothing when I pressed the power button. What types of issues are associated with this kind of thing, and how can I try to fix it? Thanks for any and all help!,
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2. The maximum "Working" time is about 5 secs. During this time fans are working, white light is lighting, HDD working, CD does its usual noise. At the last two seconds white light starts flickering.
3. If I remove all memory slots it is working as usual!!!, I mean working without pressing a powerbutton constantly... and asking for a memory of course.
How it happened: well, it is usual thing then you are in hurry. Accidentally I hit restart. I didnt want mac to load again, so I did a force shutdown (5 secs an a power button). Thats it.
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2. As soon as diagnistics is done I will get a price offer to fix it. It definitely wont be a cheap, since my mac is year and two months old (funny, two months and you are screwed).
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Alekssince my mac is year and two months old (funny, two months and you are screwed).
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This is not the place as Apple does not come to these forums.
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