MBP dead after sleep - SMC reset does not help

The MBP was used for watching a video in the car the other day, was put to sleep by closing the lid, and now it won't come on again.
When I press the button on the battery, two dots light up, so I guess there's enough battery left to start it. However, when I connect the power adaptor, the charging light never switvches to orange - it stays on green.
And a press on the power button dosen't do anything.
I tried an SMC reset without success.
What now?
Please tell me there's other things to try?! I've recently had it for repair twice. Once because the keyboard connector beneath the battery needed to be reseated (I changed hard drive at the same time) at last week the NVIDIA video card problem had to be fixed (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377).

They took it back, changed the logic once more, and now it seems to work again. Hopefully a little bit longer than the 24 hours the previous one worked.
It seems like all programs runs unaffected although the whole logic board is changed. I believe that I would have had to reinstall everything if I were on a Windows machine, at least that's how it worked a few years ago.

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