Can't turn on macbook pro - Urgent!!

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Can't turn on macbook pro - Urgent!!

hello friends, i can't turn on my macbook pro at the moment and have begin to feel panic as I have a deadline to submit and all the data are within my system (it's public holiday today so couldn't get any apple support). basically my macbook pro will not turn on and would only turn on as long as I hold on the power button, after which will just shut down again.

When I press the power button, nothing happens except a temporary beam of the white led light. Then if I press the power button and hold it, the led lights turn on like usual (but nothing shows up on the screen) with the usual hard drive starting sound that you can hear at the beginning of bootup, but after a few second it would turn off again.

Please advise as I am getting kind of desperate at the moment, thank you!

imac intel i3 3.06, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 15, 2010 5:45 PM

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Sep 15, 2010 5:48 PM in response to kken

is your power cord plugged in ?? I had this once on battery altho it was full .. and went away when I plugged in

you might also want to check this article out :
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1365

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Sep 15, 2010 5:49 PM in response to Murat Lahur

thank you for the quick reply. I tried both with power cord on and without but still not working!

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Sep 15, 2010 5:50 PM in response to kken

have you tried these steps ?

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1365
especially 6 7 and 8

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Sep 15, 2010 5:54 PM in response to Murat Lahur

I just tried them but the laptop is still not working. The PRAM does give some signal but after few seconds it would turn off again.

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Sep 15, 2010 5:56 PM in response to kken

Ok next you might want to remove your ram modules one at a time and try to isolate if any of those cause the problem .. Would you need diagrams for that ?

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Sep 15, 2010 5:58 PM in response to Murat Lahur

I did tried removing them earlier but I would try again. WOuld update you in few minutes, thanks!

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kken Author

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Sep 15, 2010 6:05 PM in response to Murat Lahur

hello, I just took out and reinstall the rams in my mbp but it would still not powered up. Any more ideas? thank you for the reply so far!

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Sep 15, 2010 6:09 PM in response to kken

ok .. would you care to explain in more detail how did this happen and when was the last time it was working was there any history of this action etc ?

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Sep 15, 2010 6:23 PM in response to Murat Lahur

sorry, I just called the apple centre, and they said it's possibly due to hardware failure.

Anyway, I was rushing from works yesterday and therefore, asked another person to off my laptop since the laptop refuse to be shut down promptly but according to my colleague, she shut it down with the proper procedure. However, yesterday when i tried to shut down the laptop, there's a software that refuse to be shut down, it's vectorwork (a cad program).

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Sep 15, 2010 6:25 PM in response to kken

I was going to conclude saying that it's likely to be hardware failure as well ..you tried the possible steps .. now it looks like a trip to apple store

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Sep 15, 2010 6:27 PM in response to Murat Lahur

yeah, unfortunately it's a national holiday for my country today and I would be leaving the country tomorrow to UK. In UK where I would be located, there is no apple store nearby. Anyway, I guess it's just a bad day for me. Thank you for all your replies, you have been really helpful!

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Sep 15, 2010 6:29 PM in response to kken

no worries mate .. I am sorry we couldn't achieve much ..

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