Laptop turns off after 3-4 seconds
Hi there, My Laptop turns off after 3-4 seconds of turning in on. When the battery is plugged in or mains lead, the on /off switch does absolutley nothing. When you open the lid however, it turns the laptop on for 3-4 seconds then cuts out. After taking the laptop appart, i have found that the only way to get the laptop to turn on properly is to take out the power switch chip unit strip cable, insert it so it turns on and then remove it quickly. this way the laptoip stays on. if you insert the power unit strip cable, it turns on fine, but if you leave it in, the laptop turns its self off after 3-4 seconds ( as if the power button was held down) Do you think this is a problem with the either, the power button chip unit, the main board, or maybe even the magnet switch in the lid!? i have upodated bios/cleared CMOS, ran all diagnostics, tried everyt combionation of resetting, e.g. hd/ram/cables /power button down for a minute, bat back in power lead back in...etc, everything installed fine and came back 100% ok as if there is no problem, but the power switch is doing nothing!. Please help or let me know if anyone else had this issue, i really need my laptop working. Kind Regards, James Hardy
Does it do it booting in these two modes?
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup).
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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