Macbook just doesn't turn on?

I've had this problem recently. I got home from work, did some web browsing etc. and shut my computer off. The next morning I woke up and tried to turn my computer on but to no avail, it just didn't turn on. The lights almost lit up, but slowly dimmed. Now, a few days later, nothing works at all. It just doesn't turn on anymore. I purchased this MacBook in December of 07' and I love it dearly and would like to hopefully figure out what caused it just to simply not work anymore.

Almost certainly a hardware problem.
If you have no warranty you can grab a screw driver and check the power and ram without too much hassle if you have friends with macs. You don't give that much information but if it is starting up then sleeping it could be a reed switch (or whatever it is called now) problem causing your box to think it is always lid closed and supposed to sleep.
Try a working powerchord/battery and ram and see if that helps. If it doesn't then perhaps a bit more information on what "exactly" is happening might give some other some ideas otherwise take it to a shop.
From what I've heard sounds more like a ram or logicboard problem which is nice that you can save your HD and the stuff on it. Anyways there is likely no easy fix unless it happens to be bad ram. Sorry.

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