Swollen Battery (2007 Macbook)

I recently went with out using or charging my 2007 MacBook for about a week, and when I want to use it I found that the battery was 100% dead. So I plugged it into the charger over night, and in the morning there was no progress the light on the charger was still green. So then I left it on the charger all day and came home to find that the battery was swollen, and still no progress. What do I do?

Wingfield_95 wrote:
Is there any safe way to power it up with out using the battery and just the power supply?
Absolutely NOT, NO
Don't dare use it in its current state
thats lithium pack swelling. Turn it off, dont dare use it in its current state.
keep it in a cool place until you can get it into the shop.
Contact Apple ASAP for appt. for replacing the battery.
ComputerFixer
You can remove the battery from the unit
Dont, dont, dont recommend a user remove a swollen battery
Off-gassing /swelling of a battery has no bearing on the AGE of the battery, and Babowa rightly didnt indicate that was the case.

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