My Mac randomly just turned off and now it wont turn back on, the charger light is faintly flashing green and amber?!?!

My mac randomly turned off last night had some trouble with an uncertified usb cable that I was trying to charge my iphone 5S with but it came up with that message of not being able to charge with this accessory or something so i plugged it into my mac thinking it was my plug to charge my phone then like 5 mins later my mac just randomly turns off and it did have like 90% batt but i still plugged it back in thinking it was just being wierd but then i pressed the power button after it being plugged into my mac and it wouldnt even turn on no fan starts or anything and now the colour of the charger light is very faint and is almost flickering between green and amber, please help me out I dont want to pay loads of money for something that I might be able to fix?!?!?!

MacBook Pro, iOS 7

Posted on Jan 13, 2014 2:55 PM

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Frankenstein182

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Posted on Jul 2, 2015 12:35 PM

Hi Guys,

Similar thing just happened with me, and having searched the links on here I thought to paste the short cut of what could have been an hour if I'd followed some of the advice/directions about taking out the battery/restarting, ect.

My Mac book pro 15", that I've had only 48 hours, turned off with full per cent battery, a working fan and an orange light while charging? Eventually the fan went off too while searching for answers but the best instructions and quickest result was to simply press; Shift-Control-Option key and the power button at the same time. Let go and press the power button.

The screen instantly turned on, to my relief, and has been fine for the remaining 15 minutes.

The source of my relief -

Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe or USB-C power adapter to a power source and to your computer.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.

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LoFiSh72

Level 1

8 points

May 16, 2017 5:07 PM in response to Abbey94

Samething here. I plugged in a usb device and it shutdown and i can't turn it on.

I tried pressing shoft, option, command and the power button and nothing happens.

It's a macbook pro 13" mid 2012 with os sierra.

Help!!!!!

OGELTHORPE

Level 9

57,329 points

Jan 13, 2014 3:12 PM in response to Abbey94

If a SMC reset does not restore life to the MBP, make an appointment at an Apple store genius bar for a free evaluation.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

Ciao.

CN0313

Level 1

4 points

May 2, 2017 11:12 AM in response to Abbey94

The same thing happened to my MacBook lastnight. I tried the shift-control-option and it still won't turn on. If I take out the battery would I lose anything?

Nipsa

Level 1

4 points

May 9, 2017 12:54 AM in response to Abbey94

Hi guys, the exact same thing has happened to me but the shift cntrl option is not working!!!! Does anyone know anything i can do?

Jun 19, 2017 9:54 PM in response to LoFiSh72

Did you find out what happened? Same thing just happened to me when I plugged in a usb

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My Mac randomly just turned off and now it wont turn back on, the charger light is faintly flashing green and amber?!?!