Macbook Pro retina will not turn on

I bought a 2012 Macbook Pro Retina 13" off Craigslist today. It will not turn on. I tried resetting the SMC and disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it. It will still not turn on, the battery has been charging for 2 hours already and it's still amber on the magsafe. It still has warranty coverage until 2014 so my next stop is the apple store. I thought I could fix it myself but it is pretty tough to narrow down the cause.

I tried those already, did not work.
I did how ever remove the command key and wiped it down and it turns on perfectly!
but now the keyboard keys seem to be out of place or something. For example it makes a "ping" sound when i hit some of them, when i hit function or control it puts the letter Z.
Any input would be great!

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2. The maximum "Working" time is about 5 secs. During this time fans are working, white light is lighting, HDD working, CD does its usual noise. At the last two seconds white light starts flickering.
3. If I remove all memory slots it is working as usual!!!, I mean working without pressing a powerbutton constantly... and asking for a memory of course.
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What I am planing to do:
1. I have an Apple service center here in the Tallinn who are ready to do some diagnostics. The only thing is - I dont trust them my HDD. So I am gonna clone my hard drive data somethere before they get my mac in their hands.
2. As soon as diagnistics is done I will get a price offer to fix it. It definitely wont be a cheap, since my mac is year and two months old (funny, two months and you are screwed).
3. If it will be too expencive I gonna do DIY repair.
What I would like to say to the Apple: please investigate that problem. The motherboard is definitely working. I can not fix it myself with no necessary equipments here, so I have to do expensive motherboard logic purchase.
Aleks
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Hi rightturn,
Thanks for replying.
I am still not sure about the success story. According to the http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/MacBookProvideofailure.html topic and comments you have to have "chime" sound and numlock (or capslock ???) button to work. Those two are the main criterias to pass the nvidia failure test.
Another thing is the USB which is should be powered on as well.
As you could see on the youtube video this macbook does not have chime, and keyboard seems does not work too.
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