Early 08 mbp getting power, but not starting up

Tried to start up my machine after pulling it out of my bag today, and weirdness occured. The status light comes on, then fades, but doesn't turn off. The optical drive and hdd both spin up, the fans turn on, but then everything stops. The status light stays dimmed, the drives spin back down, but the display never activates, no chime emerges from the machine, and several keyboard commands later nothing has happened. It will stay like this indefinately, or at least the longest I've let it sit like that is about 2 or 3 hours. Tried resetting power management, pram has been reset, I've let everythig sit or several hours, all to no effect. Any ideas on what could be wrong? It does travel a decent amount, maybe a jolt knocked something loose? Any ideas or suggestions would be really helpful. Thanks.

Yes it does indeed power down after about 5 seconds of holding down the power button. It might also be worth noting that if I close the lid while it is in this "limbo" state, that the status light brightens back up to full brightness. Don't know if it is worth mentioning, but I just spaced on stating that earlier.

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