Computer won't boot - can't even make it to chime sound

Hey everyone,
So I left my computer on overnight plugged into my power adapter and I wake up this morning to find it turned off. Didn't know what had caused it but I wasn't too concerned and tried booting it up like normal. Once I did this it gave me the gray screen it normally does at boot without the chime sound and shuts down after about 2-3 seconds no matter how many times I try to boot. I've done a PRAM reset which gave me the chime but once it started booting it does the same thing and shuts down after a couple seconds. And with all of this, the LED on the bottom never turns on. My battery is at full charge and I have it plugged into power. Any ideas? I appreciate any help
Justin

Hi, I had the same issue... The fans seems to be turning but no power going through the screen, no startup sound... I saw many threads telling that there is a recall for Mac Book Pros with the 8600 Nvidia chipset... I took my Mac to the reseller here in Mtius... they say I'm not eligible for a replacement because they need to run a diagnostic on the Mac to get a serial and then check the eligibility of that serial.
The fact that my Mac Book Pro wont boot is considered as another problem for them/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png Now I'm dead.. it was such a huge investment and they're charging me 1052 dollars to fix it by replacing the logic board/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png Thats' unacceptable/___sbsstatic___/migration-images/migration-img-not-avail.png

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