MacBook Pro Died when sleeping!

[evil_santa]

I have a MBP 15" 2.4ghz, built around feb 08, purchased from the referb store (uk) may 08

I left it uploading a file last night , when i came back to it , it had gone to sleep, when i tried to wake it , it did not wake, so i held down the power for 10 sec until it restarted.

On restart the screen did not illuminate & i got no chime. I have tried to reset pram , and boot from start up DVD, but i dont think the keyboard has any power, as the shift lock dose not light up, also using an external keyboard dose not work as i don't think there is any power on the usb port.

I can hear the HD spin and the start up DVD will spin, but all i get is the white light on the front on all the time, about 1/2 brightness,

I have tried reseating the memory, starting up with out the battery, draining the battery, different power supply, but no luck, any suggestions?

any recommended repair centers in central or west london?

Thank

eSanta

 

[AnotherFanBoy]

There are Apple stores in Regents Street, Westfields Shopping Centre and Brent Cross.

http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/whitecity/
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/brentcross/

It would be easier to take it to one of these. Regents St is the biggest, but it is also the busiest. I have never used Brent Cross but the Westfields store was small but I didn't have any trouble getting to a genius.

 

[spinnerlys]

Apple Stores in London


Brent Cross
Unit V6a, Upper West Mall
Brent Cross Shopping Centre
London
NW4 3FP
020 8359 1050


Regent Street
235 Regent Street
London
W1B 2EL
020 7153 9000


White City
Westfield London
Ariel Way
London
W12 7GF
020 8433 4600

 

[bolen]

Have you tried with resetting the PRAM and SMC?

 

[evil_santa]

yep tried pram and smc., having had a look about various forums , i get the feeling it the logic board, any idea how much that will be to replace or am i just better off getting another mbp. ( with extended warranty this time)

 

[spinnerlys]

I think a logic board replacement costs around 500 - 800 €, at least for the iBook it cost 500 €.


Oh, after searching for logic board replacement, I found the following:
http://www.dttservice.com/macbookpro.html

It doesn't seem that costly.

 

[evil_santa]

just got it back from the apple store, new logic board cost £445 and took 4 working days !!!

 

[geoffreak]

That sucks. Next time buy AppleCare

When I saw this thread title, I wanted to reply, "at least it died a peaceful death"

 

[airplaneman]

That sucks. Next time buy AppleCare

When I saw this thread title, I wanted to reply, "at least it died a peaceful death"

Same here.

 

[pier]

If you have (well had) an Nvidia 8600GT you probaly are suffering the very known and hated "black screen of death".

It happened to me like a week ago and apple replaced for free in 3 days.

Go to your apple store and if they tell you to pay point them to this apple notice
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

They will do it for free.

Once you get your new logic board don't forget to turn on again time machine (if you used it) and to repair disk permissions.