I book G4 dead

I left my i book G4 today downloading a tv show off i tunes... I come back 2 hrs later and its sleeping. I hit enter it sounds like its coming back on... Then i look no sleep light - blank screen... I try hitting the power button nothing happens... Its fully charged... What can i do my computer won't swtich on? Whats worse its just out of the 3 year warranty and i've just moved to Northern AZ - no apple stores anywhere near.

Thanks but that didn't fix it... what seems to have fixed it was unlocking the battery the computer made a cinching sound... The battery wouldn't come out but... when i locked the battery again the computer switched on... One of my friends said it sounds like my memory is loose and i should rescrew it but since my battery won't come out... i'm not wanting to try that unless it breaks again!

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First to give a little background info - my Mac Book Pro is 13 months old - I missed the Apple Care Deadline by a week due to a mistake on my part. Upon purchase I received 3 faulty machines prior to this one. I had put the deadline in my calendar based on when I got a functional machine, rather than my purchase date - my fault. I tried to beg Apple Care for mercy a mere 2 days after my actual deadline and just got passed from associate to associate until one would finally just disconnect me. (This happened 3 times).
On to the saga of last night. I'm working at home, running iTunes, Mail, and Photoshop. I'm working on a layout in Photoshop - nothing very taxing on the system at all. The only things connected to the machine were the power adapter and my Wacom tablet. As I was editing a photo, all of a sudden the computer just shut off. There were no beeps, no pops, no cracks, nothing. Just dead, gone, nothingness. I feared the worst immediately due to the no Apple Care. Unfortunately, I fear even more than my initial fears were accurate.
I'm writing this post to see if anyone has experienced anything similar and has come up with a solution. I've searched the forums but don't seem to find anything but the random shut off issue (which this doesn't seem to be as those systems would at least reboot).
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2) resetting the PMU
3) leaving it over night without power connected and the batter removed and then re-connecting to AC power
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Well, no official word yet, however there I do have news to report. The Genius at the Apple Store (Michael @ Ridgedale Mall, MN) was VERY helpful and reassuring that he didn't think it was a huge issue. He doesn't think its a logic board or anything that in depth - his initial thoughts were that a wire simply came loose and thats why it will charge, but we get no activity when the power button is pushed.
I also explained to him about my fiasco with even getting this machine in the first place (this is my 3rd machine - first two arrived damaged out of the box), and they had it on record that I had tried to buy apple care within the year time frame of when I actually received the satisfactory model (this one). Plus the fact that this is no where near my first Apple purchase and that ALL of my other products have AppleCare plans.
He gave me some pointers and told me to call AppleCare today and explain the situation, explain that I'd been misinformed from various channels, etc. Well it worked, and I now have AppleCare on the machine as of today.
I should know what repair is needed in the next day, and hopefully have the machine back early next week.
Needless to say this experience once again renewed my faith in Apple and the support they offer loyal customers.

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I plugged in an Iphone usb cable to charge my iphone and as soon as the usb touched the port, the macbook pro went dead. The laptop will not turn on, the charging light does not turn on. Completely Dead. Hoping that I can recover the data.
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Hi EmManna3i,
If your MacBook Pro will not power on at all, I would suggest following the steps in this article to get it up and running -
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1367
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dice que tiene carga pero no enciende nada y carga la bateria bien y todo y se va descargando pero no enciende puedo tener el dedo en el boton de arranque y no enceinde hay alguna otra forma de obligarala o saber que sucede gracas .

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Hi all, long time browser, first time poster.
This is a weird issue, it should be noted from the first that I only have weird computer issues. I work at a technical High School where we have the whole Adobe CS6 Extended suite installed. We are running it under a fully patched version of Windows 7 and all the CS6 updates have been applied on 25 machines that all have the same issue. The problem is that when the students go to print to our HP Color Laser jet CP6015DN, the job can been seen loading into the queue, it races up to about 45MB, then sort of strolls to load the rest of the document, usually about 59 to 75 MB's in size. Then I watch the message go to processing, the front panel of the printer says processing, then the print job disappears from the printer queue and the printer and there is no print out. I printed out the usage job log and it shows none of the failed attempts to print and I check the event log page which does not show the errors either.
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Hi Tom,
How funny you mentioned Blurb. Well, I have some experience with Blurb. The Blurb Booksmart app itself is very buggy and not perfect application. I believe it is a Java-based application.
Uhm, there is lot of problems with "quality-related" when it comes to quality of printing and binding books at the Blurb.
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Staff at Blurb mentioned that there will be upcoming changes and better options with different kind of paper stock and things like that. I doubt that is going to happen this year, but who knows.
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