MBP won't power up after shutting down windows. Nothing Nada Zilch Zero

I was using the windows side of my MBP. Whend I was done, I shut down using windos shut down. When I went to restart my computer, it did nothing. No sound, no spin no whine, nothing.
I've reset the power by taking battery out and holding down the power button.
I have green on the cord. What gives? How did this happen?
Cheers
Warren
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've had a similar problem with the laptop before this one. I could tell you to try to take the battery out and hold down the power button for 5 seconds and then put the battery back, but that probably won't work. I could tell you to hold down the altcommandp or o and try to reset the ram, but that won't work. Your issue sounds like the power supply and your laptop is most likely dead.
If you bought it from apple.com you will have to return it and deal with the most incompetent customer service people on the planet. Took them 2 months to get my issue resolved.
I wish you the best of luck.

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