Flashing Question Mark Folder = Hard Drive? FUGGEDDABOUDDIT!

[TommyLee]

So I'm servicing a Macbook with a flashing question mark folder and all the usual stuff (hold this button, hold that button) is not working and I can't even start up in target.

In fact, the keyboard shows no signs of life at all. (don't tell me it died the same time as the HD!) I got no caps lock or num lock light. The only button that seems to work is the power button.

• I plugged an Apple USB keyboard/mouse and still couldn't get anything.
• I swapped the ram.
• I even pulled the HD and stuck it in a MacBook Pro and it's fine.
• when you press the power, the screen flashes bright for a millisecond then goes to about half the brightness.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY CAUSE THE FLASHING ? AND THE KEYBOARD TO SIMULTANEOUSLY GO OUT?

 

[TEG]

Take it to an Apple Store. Sounds like a logic board problem.

TEG

 

[Sky Blue]

Have you swapped the Logic Board?

 

[TommyLee]

WTF, THE KEYBOARD JUST CAME BACK ON?!?!?!?!!?!!

Have you swapped the Logic Board?

nah, i don't have any.

i finally got it in target but the HD's pulled. man, what the hell... I can't run any hard ware tests from another machine while it's in target, can I? Wait... I can slip the drive back in, right?

 

[Sky Blue]

Your servicing Mac's but you don't have any spare logic boards??

 

[TommyLee]

Your servicing Mac's but you don't have any spare logic boards??

omg whats the world coming to?!?!?
u should see me solder while drunk

under the battery, under the sticky thing they got those little ribbon cables. They're all mouse right? None of them are keyboard?

 

[TommyLee]

come back apple genius, i need your wisdom!!!

 

[emac82]

come back apple genius, i need your wisdom!!!

Why are you trying to service a computer when you aren't familiar with the process?