W8******8YAMacBook Pro 17" UNIBODY, will not start

I have the MacBook Pro 17" , Processor is the Duel 2.8 Ghz, memory is8 GHZ, 500 GB of storage. It all started when the Mac would shut down out of no where and I had to take out the charger and play with it and keep starting and restarting many times until it would finally stat up. I thought it was the Mag so I replaced it. The problem kept happening. This happened for a while. Until Now it does not start at all. When I plug in the mag it is green and then quickly turns to orange and stays on orange. When I press the power button nothing happens. It does not start at all, It is totally dead. I am assuming it is the battery. I was going to make an appointment to go to the Mac store but I haven't had time yet. Also, I would like an estimate on how muchto replace the battery would. I even thought about going to a 3rd party site and ordering the battery myself to install it. Does anybody know what the problem is? Oe, had anyone had a similar problem? Pleas help. I do have a windows Laptop for now. But I need my Mac.
Thank You,
Chad
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chadfromstaten island wrote:
is it easy to do.
Yes, I have done so many times, usually for RAM and HDD upgrades.
Also, do you think it is the battery, if not what else could it be? If I take out the battery and connect the charger and it still gets no power....what then?
You do not have to take out the battery. The MBP should work with the charger connected regardless of the battery status.
Does the genius bar charge you just to look at it?
No, as I wrote before "The evaluations at an Apple store genius bar are FREE regardless of the warranty status or the age of the MBP."
Ciao.

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