Macbook Faulty Wiring - no startup?

The week my MacBook Pro went out of warranty, it would not recognize its harddrive. It would startup, but would get the "?" and not see the internal drive. I took it to the Genius Bar - no help there, they wanted to charge me for a new harddrive w/o even looking at the computer. Even though I own several Mac's over the last 10 years - I was out of warranty by a week and they could offer me nothing! I took the computer apart - and realized that the cable that plugs the internal HD to the laptop was poorly assembled and was shorting out by touching the aluminum frame. I taped it up, re-assembled, and everything is fine. Make sure to check this if you have startup problems. P.S. Not pleased with Apple regarding the cold shoulder.

Russ R wrote:
I have a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 and no longer hear any startup gong.
You likely had the mute button pressed.
I have repaired the permissions and they all repair except the "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" which has been modifed and wasn't repaired.
don't worry about that, we all have it.
I have not reset the PRAM, I think I have reset the power controller.
Well do backup your users data folders (Music, Pictures, etc) to a external storage drive ASAP (in addition to TimeMachine if your only using that, for the "fresh install" method)
run through the list here, you may have a software issue and this will help sort of rule that out, then your looking at a hardware issue not discovered by the hardware test.
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