Can I reset the smc when my Macbook Pro (late 2013) won't power up?

The AC plug appears to show that the computer is fully charged....green light display on plug. Power button won't turn the computer on.

Please make a Genius Appointment and take it in for service.

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My macbook pro (late 08) won't power on

Greetings,
I've been searching around in the forums and didn't find anyone with the same problem that have had this issue solved.
The problem started about a month ago when i accidently left the computer running out of battery during the night. The day after there was no response whatsoever, tried resetting the SMC which did help so i didn't really think of it anymore except as clumsy as i am only 2 days later the same thing occurs. Which then turned out to be a little bit of an issue becasue now a SMC reset didn't help... but after 6-7 resets and about ten minutes later it did however come back to life.
the third time it happened it took me almost an hour of resetting the SMC and it turned on again. Now i've been traveling alot and without any power to be seen on my flights of course it happened again. But now I just cannot be as stubborn any longer since I've been trying to get it alive now for several hours.
The issue I have is that the computer gives no response at all when pressing the power button and it's clearly something that has gotten worse since it is now the fourth time and every single time the duration has increased.
This is the late 2008 15" model can't say the serial no though. But I haven't done any changes in hardware since the issues started.
I get a feeling that people will say to turn it in to an apple store and have it checked out. Just wanted to see if someone have had this issue and had it resolved somehow and if it's a possibility that it's fixable by myself since I'm just a poor student with my beloved almost 6 year old laptop that has been through more stuff than most people even.
EDIT: I've tried booting without battery and with, and also with and without the powercord as well.
Kind Regards
Simon

I'm not sure it's worth it to be honest.
It's possibly something to do with the logic board and as it is way out of warranty it's not going to be cost effective to repair.
I'll give it one more go tonight and if not I'll get an insurance claim and replace it with a brand spanking new one. I'm trying to find my other battery just to see if the battery is at fault. It has been reading check for a while.
The other problem is that New Zealand doesn't have Apple Retail stores therefore getting a Genius to look at it isn't possible.
As awesome as Apple's support desk is I'm not too sure if they can do anything over the phone.
Oh well, a new MacBook Pro isn't the end of the world.

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after installing Yosemite on my MacBook Pro 15" Late 2013 I have trouble rotating it's screen. After I launch Preferences and click Displays while pressing alt and command keys I see the list of possible orientations available.
If I now select 270° the screen immediately goes black. To be clear: The display is not turned off like when the MacBook sleeps. It's still lit, but only shows a black screen. After turning the MacBook off by pressing and holding the power button I can boot and voilà, the screen is perfectly normal, showing everything rotated at 270°. If I reset to Landscape from there (i. e. 0°), I have no problem at all, everything still works. Setting it back to 270° again lets the screen go black again.
I have an installation of Mavericks at my primary partition and it has no problems at all with rotation. Is this a known bug or can anyone confirm this behaviour?
As a hint for others suffering the same problem: You can get around the hard reset by pressing shift-comand-q followed by enter key. This logs your user out of the system and gets you back to the login screen. This obviously kind of reinitializes the UI. After that, the display's rotation is working and you just have to login again.
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Hi,
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Greetings,
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I've removed and reinserted the battery, checked battery status with button on bottom (all four green lights light up) checked the adapter for debris and damaged pins, unplugged from wall and replugged in two minutes later, and nothing seems to work.
Is this battery totally shot, or is there something seriously wrong with the machine? I've got a lot of stuff that I can't lose on that machine, so I'm hoping the hard drive isn't fried and, worst case scenario, if the machine is dead, I can get what I need off the hard drive and put on a different machine.
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Just guessing, but the flashing light may be an indicater that your RAM is bad or not being seen.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US
Try reseating the RAM. If it's third-party RAM and you still have the original Apple RAM, try the Apple RAM. If your computer doesn't see any RAM, it won't start.
Chances are your hard drive and data are OK since you can hear the drive spin up.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US
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Hi,
I need to reset the SMC on my mac pro, as I had an incident where the fans kicked in like a fighter jet after I shutdown, and didn't stop until I pulled the plug after about Ten minutes of white noise.
The trouble is, the instruction for doing this are a little unclear, as I'm instructed to unplug everything, including the display cable, before reconnecting only the keyboard and mouse, after 15 seconds, before restarting. There is no mention, however, of reconnecting the display cables, which leave a few possible interpretations: 1/ Obviously I'm supposed to reconnect the display cables, or I wouldn't be able to see anything after restarting. 2/ I'm supposed to reconnect the monitor after start up (I think this is supposed to be a bad idea)? 3/ I'm supposed to restart without a monitor, and then do a forced shut down by holding the power button for 10 seconds, after I think it's probably restarted okay (hard to tell without a monitor). After shutting down, I then reconnect the monitor. Clearly, option 1/ is the only sensible interpretation, but as I'm guessing there's no way of knowing if the SMC reset worked or not, after doing it, except a non-repeat/repeat of the problem, I'd like to be absolutely sure. I hope someone can help me.
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I was at the Apple Service. The problem was the 750Gb Toshiba HDD. It's incredible what noise can make that little thing
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