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Q: Won't start up; charger blinking orange

Came home from work and went to turn on my late-2011 MacBook Pro. It won't start up. Nothing happens (no tone, no motor noise, nothing). When plugged in (MagSafe power charger that came with the unit) the charger unit blinks orange. Tried the charger on my other computer - works just fine. Tried 2 other MagSafe power chargers (from other Macs I own/have owned) and all act the same way with this computer, but work just fine with another Mac.

 

Anyone have any idea what's going on? I have owned Macs since 1988 (over the years I've owned a Macintosh II, Macintosh Performa, Power Mac, Power Book, and another MacBook Pro before this one). I've never had a problem like this one before...HELP!

 

[A side note: There have been NO spills, no tumbles, no falls, nothing to prompt any sort of issues....This was a completely RANDOM "dead" laptop!]

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)

Posted on Sep 5, 2012 8:03 PM

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  • by jamsieboy86,

    jamsieboy86 jamsieboy86 Sep 12, 2014 10:48 PM in response to E_Louise
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    Sep 12, 2014 10:48 PM in response to E_Louise

    Cheers dbartul, saved me a trip to the apple store.

  • by cleslie05aj,

    cleslie05aj cleslie05aj Sep 18, 2014 9:49 PM in response to dbartul
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    Sep 18, 2014 9:49 PM in response to dbartul

    Wow, Super thank you dbartul! You save us from going to Power Mac Center. I thought my charger is broken. Tried what did you said and voila, Im using my macbook again right now Charging fine also. Thank you so much and Godbless!

  • by lukebourne84,

    lukebourne84 lukebourne84 Sep 23, 2014 6:19 PM in response to dbartul
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    Sep 23, 2014 6:19 PM in response to dbartul

    dbartul; still saving the day over a year and a half later!!

  • by ecopenhaver,

    ecopenhaver ecopenhaver Sep 30, 2014 7:14 AM in response to dbartul
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    Sep 30, 2014 7:14 AM in response to dbartul

    This happened to me also. I'm going to summarize what I saw elsewhere and what worked for me, for the benefit of humanity.

     

    The symptoms I saw were that my macbook pro completely shut off. Importantly, this happened suddenly as I disconnected my iPhone while updating to iOS 8.0.2, but I was using a third-party USB cord. The laptop's power button no longer yielded any response at all. When I plugged in the power cord, the LED was extremely faint and blinking between green-ish and orange-ish. I could even hear a little actuator clicking inside the power cord when the LED switched color.

     

    A lot of people suggested that simply leaving your macbook pro unplugged for 30 hours would drain the battery. Then upon trying again, the thing would work. I tried this and it did not work for me.

     

    Then I found several other people saying that the same symptoms occurred after they had plugged in their iPhone via third party USB cable. The fix from this crowd did work: open up the bottom of your macbook pro and disconnect the battery from the logic board for ~15 minutes. There's only one connector (a ribbon plug fed into with a row of little black wires) between the big black battery and anything else, so this shouldn't be too tough to find.

     

    Anyway, this worked for me and I hope it works for you!

  • by ecopenhaver,

    ecopenhaver ecopenhaver Sep 30, 2014 7:16 AM in response to E_Louise
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    Sep 30, 2014 7:16 AM in response to E_Louise

    This happened to me also. I'm going to summarize what I saw elsewhere and what worked for me, for the benefit of humanity.

     

    The symptoms I saw were that my macbook pro completely shut off. Importantly, this happened suddenly as I disconnected my iPhone while updating to iOS 8.0.2, but I was using a third-party USB cord. The laptop's power button no longer yielded any response at all. When I plugged in the power cord, the LED was extremely faint and blinking between green-ish and orange-ish. I could even hear a little actuator clicking inside the power cord when the LED switched color.

     

    A lot of people suggested that simply leaving your macbook pro unplugged for 30 hours would drain the battery. Then upon trying again, the thing would work. I tried this and it did not work for me.

     

    Then I found several other people saying that the same symptoms occurred after they had plugged in their iPhone via third party USB cable. The fix from this crowd did work: open up the bottom of your macbook pro and disconnect the battery from the logic board for ~15 minutes. There's only one connector (a ribbon plug fed into with a row of little black wires) between the big black battery and anything else, so this shouldn't be too tough to find.

     

    Anyway, this worked for me and I hope it works for you!

  • by Vicktor187,

    Vicktor187 Vicktor187 Oct 2, 2014 4:40 PM in response to dbartul
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    Oct 2, 2014 4:40 PM in response to dbartul

    I Cant Thank you enough dbartul!!!

    make a long story short i plugged a third party iphone usb cord while the computer was in sleeping mode, found out i made a big mistake!

    computer went black out shut down completely would not respond and the power button not working, no reset is working and the button on the side to check the battery was not even showing one light like usual.

    i googled about megasafe blinking orange light came to this threat and found the solution witch worked perfectly, just unplug, replug and walla MAGIC!!


    thank you guys!

     

  • by Nathan Yukari's Dad,

    Nathan Yukari's Dad Nathan Yukari's Dad Oct 23, 2014 10:39 AM in response to dbartul
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    Oct 23, 2014 10:39 AM in response to dbartul

    Yep, unplug the battery connector and it works, here is a like to iFix it if you don't know where the battery connector is, I had the same issue with my 13 inch Macbook Pro Unibody Mid 2012, thanks for that tip dbartul.

  • by Nathan Yukari's Dad,

    Nathan Yukari's Dad Nathan Yukari's Dad Oct 23, 2014 10:41 AM in response to dbartul
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    Oct 23, 2014 10:41 AM in response to dbartul

    Yep, unplug the battery connector and it works, here is a like to iFix it if you don't know where the battery connector is, I had the same issue with my 13 inch Macbook Pro Unibody Mid 2012, thanks for that tip dbartul

  • by Nathan Yukari's Dad,

    Nathan Yukari's Dad Nathan Yukari's Dad Oct 23, 2014 10:43 AM in response to dbartul
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  • by rainguardian,

    rainguardian rainguardian Nov 18, 2014 8:58 AM in response to dbartul
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    Nov 18, 2014 8:58 AM in response to dbartul

    thanks dbartul! Worked for me!! Turns out it was because I used a cheap USB cable to charge my iphone. Now I'm never gonna use that cable again!

  • by Thaze4,

    Thaze4 Thaze4 Nov 22, 2014 1:35 AM in response to E_Louise
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    Nov 22, 2014 1:35 AM in response to E_Louise

    Worked a charm, many thanks

  • by Ganouch,

    Ganouch Ganouch Nov 25, 2014 6:17 AM in response to E_Louise
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    Nov 25, 2014 6:17 AM in response to E_Louise

    Hi folks,

    I need your help,

     

    Here is my issue : One day my MBP was telling me to replace my battery " Replace your battery soon " and off course I did not replace it.

    Now my MBP isn't booting and when I plug the charger in, the charger light is blinking sometimes orange sometimes green.

    I noticed on the left edge, all the lights indicating the battery life ( 8 smalls lights ) are blinking green. As soon as I press and hold the power button, these 8 lights stop blinking and start back when I release the power button.

     

    I tried several times the fix you all did and nothing seems to help.

     

    Do  I need a new battery in order to use my laptop back or Should I be able to use my MBP with dead battery using the charger only ?

     

    Thank you for your time.

  • by Pete Coventry,

    Pete Coventry Pete Coventry Nov 26, 2014 9:20 AM in response to E_Louise
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    Nov 26, 2014 9:20 AM in response to E_Louise

    I just came here because for the past 4 hours I have had a flashing yellow light on my charger.

     

    Turns out I haven't pushed it all the way into the plug! It's solid Orange now!

  • by jbeta58,

    jbeta58 jbeta58 Nov 26, 2014 1:32 PM in response to dbartul
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    Nov 26, 2014 1:32 PM in response to dbartul

    Thanks dbartul, that worked for me too!

  • by medvar72,

    medvar72 medvar72 Dec 11, 2014 7:42 PM in response to dbartul
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    Dec 11, 2014 7:42 PM in response to dbartul

    Hey one year and a half and your solution still is saving lifes :-). Thanks a lot man, God Bless you. Regards from  Venezuela!

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