My macbook pro magsafe stays green and wont charge ,what should i do ?

THe magsafe light stays green ,and wont charge even after 2 hours ,and whe i plug in the orange light does not appear

Let the battery drain to say 90% and then put in the charger, it should charge to 100%.
When you put the charger in when the battery is 95% or higher, it will not charge, the light stays green and the battery will stay at the percentage it has.
If charging does not start when the battery is low, there is something amiss: do the SMC reset.
Lex

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Macbook pro turns it self off, wont charge battery, often wont boot.

Around June, after a couple months of light issues, my macbook pro basically just stopped turning on. I initially thought it was the video card, and since it was one of the earlier core 2 duo models, didnt think it was worth fixing. Just recently I happened to get the torx screwdriver needed to fully open the computer, and after not trying it for a couple of months, it booted up like new. At this time the battery appeared to be charging normally, but again something happened that seemed to coincide with my plugging a usb mouse into the usb port near the magsafe adapter, the light flickered and then it ceased charging. A little while later I was trying to move files off, and it shuts itself off. Then the same problem comes up while trying to boot it, typical noise, and then the apple screen comes up, and the picture is flickering and dims til its off again.
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I have a early 2011 Macbook Pro 17" with OSX Lion 10.7.5 and a bootcamp partition running Windows 7.
About three months ago some coffee was spilled on the keyboard, and afterwards was having some issues where it would shut down randomly. After a visit to my university's computer repair center, who told me there was a problem with the power button, and a visit to the local MacStore, who told me that the internals needed to be replaced for a whopping 1,300 dollars. I let the comupter sit for some time while I tried to figure out what to do. A few weeks ago I opened the machine up and cleaned areas where I could see coffee residue with 95% isopropyl alcohol. After letting dry for the evening, I started the computer up and it worked just fine for about two weeks.
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Some posts here suggest that I need a firmware update of some sorts, but I do not see how I could do this if I cannot get the machine to start normall. Other solutions that might apply to this problem that I have found also strangely require the computer to actually be on and running.
Although I am willing to accept it, I have a hard time believing this is a hardware issue (e.g. logic board) related to the spill because of how long it ran without any problems.
I have been unable to get any sort of error report as well because of the shut down problem.
If anyone could help with my quesiton about reinstalling, and perhaps offer any other advice that doesn't involve me taking it to a MacStore I would greatly appreciate it. Its finals week and I could really use my laptop. It is a real pain being tied to a desktop.
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Update on this: somehow the disk repair utility went through and I did a repair disk. There were no problems found. Computer worked fine for an hour, and then started asking me if I really wanted to shut down, which I did not. After doing this three times it made the characteristic 'clink', and shut off as described in my previous post.
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