2006 White Macbook won't turn on

[marcato15]

My computer has been running fine, then today, the battery got low and turned off. I plugged it in and turned it on, but all I got was the initial internal sound of the system attempting to boot up (not the Apple Chime, but the actual internals ,I think the CD Drive or something), and a very quick flicker from the screen, but it wont boot up. I've tried resetting the PRAM, the SMC, swapped out RAM and Hard Drive with nothing different. I know its an old computer, but I just stuck an SSD in it and it was working amazing. Any suggestions? I know of no reason why it would be something like water damage since it hasn't gotten wet.

 

[marcato15]

Hmmm....

So I took the computer apart a bit and disconnected the hard drive battery and. Cd drive. Now booting it up means no sound, just a quick Flicker of light on the screen and then ther sleep light comes on and stays on and the fan runs until I shut it off. Any suggestions? (I know it needs a hard drive to run, but it should at least boot first, currently it won't do anything)

 

[session101]

did you computer boot fine before you switched to SSD? or was it already corrupt? even if you boot holding Control down, does it help any?

 

[marcato15]

Not an SSD issue, I don't believe

It was working fine before and after the SSD. Its been installed for several months now without working. I've tried every boot combination but I can get it to do anything. I'm 99% sure it's the logic board.

 

[logana]

Sounds as if the logic board is dead.......

Maybe the graphics chip

 

[marcato15]

How to tell the difference

Is there an easy way to tell the difference? How much would a graphics chi
Run? Probably more than I want to put into a 5+ year old machine

 

[session101]

graphics chip is built unto the logic board, you would have to replace the whole thing....not worth it