Macbook Pro2,1 17" no video, charging issues

I have done a bit of research and think I know the answer but am hoping I am wrong. I have a three year old MacBook Pro 17" 2.33. I recently moved to a newer 15" unibody and passed this to my daughter. After two weeks she complained that the battery was not working. I looked at it and saw it was badly swollen. Removed it. Bought a new non-Apple replacement. everything was fine for a couple weeks and now the power manager in sys pref says the battery is 79% charged but machine will no boot or run off the battery. Sys. profile says it has voltage but no current. At the same time, the screen has gone black. Not totally off, but no backlight. I can see a very dim image on the screen. An external monitor works fine as long as the machine is plugged in to power.
So, question, what are the chances this is a bad battery AND the backlighting failed at the same time versus a bad logic board? We had a similar problem with my wife's 15" MBP of about the same vintage and Apple replaced the video board even out of warranty becasue it was a known issue. Anyone if that program is still in place or applicable?

Regardless of whether it's an open issue that can be fixed out of warranty or not you should make an appointment with the Genius Bar to get it looked at. Even if it's not covered anymore they may throw you a bone, who knows.
I would test another battery if possible to determine if it's an issue with the battery or if there's an issue with the logic board or charger that is causing you trouble. In any case the backlight should work with the adapter plugged in though so it is almost guaranteed toast.
Save yourself the headache and take the Genius Bar appointment and get it looked at so you can see exactly what's wrong and if there's anything that can be done, and if it's covered, before getting too far into thing.

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Hey everyone, I discovered a problem on my 2011 MBP 17" which I was told that "it's perfectly normal' and I want to see if you guys can reproduce it on your new 2011 models as well (please indicate your screen size).
In summary, I noticed that depending on CPU usage, the battery reacharge time will greatly fluctuate to the point where the laptop just stops charging the battery. I noticed the giant fluctuations in time when I booted one of my VMs which used up like 15-20% overall cpu usage. I was at 5% battery life and the computer was plugged in recharging and the battery indicator all of the sudden went from somewhere around 2.5 hours recharge time to 10 hours to 15 then 20 hours. Then at some point the magsafe light went green and the battery indicator showed 'Not Charging'.
I thought that I may have a bad MagSafe so I tried the one from my 2009 MBP (both are the 85W version) and bam same problem. I figured that this may be due to a design flaw where the power unit cannot supply enough tower to feed a CPU that's being somewhat taxed (i'm talking about 25-50% usuage) and recharge a battery.
Here is a simple way to try to reproduce the problem:
1. Let you battery drain to about 80% or less.
2. Close all open programs.
3. Change your battery indicator icon in the menu bar to display the info as 'Time'.
4. Plug in your MagSafe and let the recharge time in the battery indicator calculate and stabilize (give it about 2 mins to get a stable time value).
5. Open up safari and go to Hulu and play any TV show to drive up your cpu usage.
6. Then open Terminal and type the command 'yes' (without the quotes) and hit enter. The 'yes' command basically causes an infinite loop of the letter 'y' to be display in the terminal window which also taxes your CPU in addition to the video playing in Hulu.
7. Now watch the battery indicator's recharge time value and you should notice that it'll start going up significantly in time and at some point it'll say 'Recalculating' and eventually it'll give up and say 'Not Charging'. I have a 2009 MBP 17" C2D 2.66GHz, and although the recharge time goes up by 20-30% in the exact same test, it at least still charges the battery.
I was able to reproduce this at the apple store on a 17" 2011 model as well but I'm curious if this also happens on the 15 and 13 inch models. I was told by the engineering team on the phone that this is 'perfectly normal'. I guess it falls in the category of malfunctions as designed...
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TheRosta, jkirker and zapatillo: Everything you report is normal. Under heavy load, more power is delivered to the CPU/GPU/other hardware and less to the battery charging circuitry. Under very heavy load, all power goes to the processors and none to the battery, and under extreme loads, power is drawn from the battery to supplement what is provided by the AC adapter. All of this is by design.
You might well ask why Apple didn't just provide a more powerful AC adapter. I don't know Apple's reason(s), of course, but one possible explanation is that the machine couldn't dissipate the additional heat that would be generated by feeding 20, 30 or 50 more watts into it. If that's the case, then maybe the present 85W adapter is the best compromise Apple could devise between providing sufficient power and managing heat effectively, without completely redesigning and enlarging the MBP case to accommodate bigger fans and heat sinks and more air circulation space.

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Hiya,
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Battery (black) info according to System Profiler:
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number:          DP-ASMB016-388e-420
Manufacturer:          DP
Device name:          ASMB016
Pack Lot Code:          0003
PCB Lot Code:          0000
Firmware Version:          0110
Hardware Revision:          0500
Cell Revision:          0102
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh):          0
Fully charged:          No
Charging:          Yes
Full charge capacity (mAh):          4600
Health Information:
Cycle count:          652
Condition:          Good
Battery Installed:          Yes
Amperage (mA):          0
Voltage (mV):          9367
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Automatic Restart On Power Loss:          No
Wake On AC Change:          No
Wake On Clamshell Open:          Yes
Wake On LAN:          Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          2
Wake On AC Change:          No
Wake On Clamshell Open:          Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
Reduce Brightness:          Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed:          No
AC Charger Information:
Connected:          Yes
Charging:          Yes
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there are all kinds of tricks to resetting things, but what if the laptop battery is dead and wont charge, are there any tricks to perform on a dead macbook pro?

Or the charger is shot...
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Congratulations on your new MacBook Pro! Thank you for providing all the information about what is going on with the charging issue.
Firstly, I found some information on page 11 of the MacBook Pro User Guide about what each color of the LED means on the Power Adapter:
When you first connect your power adapter to your MacBook Pro, an indicator light on the
MagSafe connector starts to glow. An amber light indicates the battery is charging. A green light indicates that the battery is fully charged.
You can find the MacBook Pro User Guide here (this is not for the latest MacBook Pro, but the information about the MagSafe adapter is true for the newest model):
MacBook Pro User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/macbook_pro_15inch_late_2011.pdf
It sounds like you are not getting the amber light indicating your computer is charging, and you are noticing that the battery level is depleting. I recommend resetting your System Management Controller when something like this is occurring:
Resetting the SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own
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On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
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Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
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Why wont my macbook pro play youtube videos????
I bought this over the summer and it's now Nov 28th. I've had it with this thing and nobody is answering my question! Please help!
I reset safari, emptied my cache, cleared my history, uninstalled and re-installed flash player and nothing has helped. In fact, un/reinstalling flash player worsened the problem. And I cannot update it becuase it says "not recognized".
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Why wont my macbook pro play youtube videos????
Perhaps there is something wrong with your software and/or a corrupt cache file outside of the browser.
I reset safari, emptied my cache, cleared my history, uninstalled and re-installed flash player and nothing has helped. In fact, un/reinstalling flash player worsened the problem. And I cannot update it because it says "not recognized".
Hmm hard to tell what's causing this. May have to do a process of elimination to cure everything on the machine.
I do have avast anti-virus: but I can't fix the warnings in it (after I scan, some warnings popup and it wont let me fix it and I have no idea where to find it in the computer itself). Does this have anything to do with it? I need virus protection, so I dont want to get rid of it.
Uninstall the anti-virus, they always cause issues on Mac's.
You say you need anti-virus, so install the free ClamXav, it's a program you run as you need it, because 99% of the malware out there is for Windows and won't run on a Mac, thus you can just run ClamXav when you need it on where you need it. Won't bugger up the machine.
I do not have the money to buy firefox (and it's never worked for me ever anyways).
Firefox is a free web browser by the open source community, it's very powerful and highly customizable with more add-ons, extensions, personas, themes than any other browser. Some things can be done on Firefox can't be done on any other browser at all. Certainly for someone who is a bit more seasoned to use it fully.
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You mentioned your "dad" and you've mentioned a delay loading pages and not YouTube at all.
Are you by any chance the Administrator of the computer? Can you install Firefox if you wanted too just as a experiment or does it ask for a Admin name and password and you can't provide it?
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If your are the Admin of the machine, then your going to have to methodically go through the fix it list I've generated here to resolve your issue as I cant' tell what's causing your problem specifically behind a screen.
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Device Name:          ASMB012
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Reset the SMC > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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I just bought my macbook pro and it's charged up to 100% and is still plugged in but now shows the battery at 98%. How is this possible when it's plugged in to the charger and the green light is on?

I just bought my macbook pro and it's charged up to 100% and is still plugged in but now shows the battery at 98%. How is this possible when it's plugged in to the charger and the green light is on?

The system regularly lets the battery drop to about 95% when on the charger, then recharges to 100%. This lets the batery exercise "just a little" all of the time and saves the recharge curcuits from overuse.
Regualr occurence for me.
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Do you have another MBP? If so can you use this power adapter on that MBP?
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You might be only able to get buy for the next few month until you graduate until you can get your computer fixed. If all else fails go buy yourself a $8 mouse from a place, it will work until you can get this fixed... or buy apple mice if that is a big deal to you.
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