Help! My MBP won't turn on anymore!

[Blusteel]

I'm using my iPod to post this.

Okay, so I've had this for about a year now. It's an early 2008 15-in. MacBook Pro. For some reason it turned off unexpectedly one day while it was still 91% charged. Now I can't get it to turn on at all. I already tried the SMC, PRAM, & PMU resets to no avail. When I turn it on all I hear is the fan and then the small white light in front lets out a dim glow, nothing on the screen. The batteries five lights glow which mean it's fully but I still can't seem to get it working. It's as if the MacBook doesn't recognize the battery or something, even with the AC cord connected to it!

 

[mgartner0622]

First question:
What graphics card do you have?
If you have the Nvidia 8600, you may be eligible for a free repair.

 

[parapup]

From what you described - it sounds like some hardware component has failed.

Do you have an external OS X bootable drive (USB/FireWire)? Or if you have the OS X Install DVD try popping it in and holding 'C' key while starting. If it boots from DVD or external drive it might be the hard drive that's dead.

Is this a NVidia 8600M GT based Macbook Pro? If so it may be eligible for free repair under this program.

 

[Blusteel]

Yes. It does have an 8600m GT graphics card. So, is my problem common and is the graphics card damage related to the Mac's random shutdowns?

Well, come to think of it I have been getting problems with some java applications on firefox as they would usually crash during a session, mostly YouTube videos. This also made my computer turn off randomly sometimes too. I would hear some sort of light clicking sound in my computer and then all of a sudden all java-related things such as streaming videos would just crash with an icon indicating some sort of java-related error.

Thanks

 

[Blusteel]

Fixed it!

Okay so I miraculously brought my MBP back to life by taking it apart and baking ts logic board my my oven! Turned it on after re-assembly and voila! It worked! Grilled Apples anyone?

Btw thanks for all the suggestions, guys!