My MacBook is not charging but the green light turn on and sometimes is orange?*

My Mac book just stop charging suddenly and now won't turn on at all. The green or orange light turns on as if it were charging but does not turn on the laptop.. The life cycle of the battery was in the 800's when I was first trying to figure out if it just needed a new battery but it died shortly after. I did purchase it about 3 years ago or just a bit longer than that.

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