MacBook randomly shut down and isn't turning on anymore.

Hi. So yesterday my mid-2012 MacBook Pro died on me. It was on my bed charging and just quit. Now, it definitely wasn't overheated because when it died the bottom of the laptop was very cool. When I plug in my charger, I only see a dim green light and it flickers from orange to green real fast. I know it's not my chargers fault because it still charges other MacBooks besides mine. I was also attempting to charge my phone at the time with a very weird charger.. But I'd charged my phone with the same charger the previous night using my MacBook and there were no issues.
I have a feeling that my battery is kaput because recently the battery life had been dying quickly that's why I always had it on charge.
I just hope it's not the motherboard because I don't have AppleCare and my 1 year warranty is up. I would like some advice on what it could be. I'm gonna try to find a nearby apple store because there are none near me-- but idk how long that will take.
I've called the apple hotline and we tried the SMC restart but that didn't even help at all.
I'm hoping someone could give me a bit of advice as to what this may be because I'm a college student and I bed my laptop to start working ASAP because of all the work I have on it. And I also don't have a real big budget. Help?

I would like some advice on what it could be.
Hard to tell unless we can examine your computer ourselves. Could be any number of things.
I'm gonna try to find a nearby apple store because there are none near me
Apple Stores are not the only places that repair Macs - AASP's Outside of the USA
How to find your nearest Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP)
but idk how long that will take.
Ask the repair techs. Only they would know after they find out what is really wrong.

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Macbook Pro Randomly Shuts Down and Restarts

Hi There,
This issue appears to have occured for other people in different forms but there does not appear to have been a conclusive answer to the problem, so here's hoping someone here might be able to provide some further insight into the issue, and with some luck, a solution.
I have an early 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.2 (plugged-in to power) that has started to randomly shut down and then restart itself (goes through all the start up screens; Apple logo etc.). It doesn't appear to be just a straight restart of the machine, but it shuts down, and then a couple of seconds later, reboots, as though it is two different actions...
The computer does this pretty randomly, and now quite often. It happens when applications are running, Safari for example, and when nothing is running and i just go to open Finder or use Spotlight.
I haven't had this issue in the past (some 3+ years of full time use now) and as far as i'm aware, nothing changed on the computer immediately prior to the issue occuring (no updates, installs etc.).
I've checked the systen log which, each time the issue occurs, returns the message 'Previous Shutdown Cause: -128'. I've sought reference as to what this refers to, but it would appear to be a mystery to the WWW.
I have tried the following solutions with no success:
- Proper restart and reboot of system;
- Repair permissions;
- Reset SMC;
- Reinstall OS X.
Any thoughts on what the problem is, what the '-128' refers to, or what more i can try to solve the issue?
Your help is much appreciated! Thanks.

I know this is a really old thread, and everyone's probably already bought new computers now. However, I'm still using my 2010 MacBook Pro and have been experiencing this very frustrating issue. However, I think I just found a way to open a finder window that prevents the shut down. In Finder>Preferences>General, under "New Finder windows show", I had "All my files" selected (BAD?), which probably was the cause, because setting that to "Desktop" instead has prevented shut downs, for now. Just thought I should share this tip, in case anyone else suffers from this annoying issue. If anyone has a better tip or a real fix, please post a reply! There are still people, like myself, working on these older machines who would appreciate the info. THANKS!

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my macbook pro shuts down and doesnt let me turn it on after a few days i try to turn it on and it works but then after a few hours or so of using it it turns off again and the cycle of me waiting days to turn it back on happens again whats the prob?

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