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MBP 17" 2008 Model won't start up, no chime, keyboard won't work, hd boots up tho

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crezza

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Right I gave my MCP a restart then the screen went black, tryed powering it down and starting up again and was still black. Tryed to put my snow leopard disc to try n recover none of the keys are working either, caps lock doesnt light up and I can't eject the snow leopard DVD now.

Please any ideas?

Tryed taking battery out and just running it straight from the socket

Not joy
 
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Have you tried any of these steps?


Btw, where does this "MCP" abbreviation come from, I have seen it being used several times for abbreviating "MacBook Pro"?

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Sorry my mistake I did mean to put MPB, was on my iPhone when I posted that and the auto correction must of changed it to MCP!,

Still no joy with my laptop though, I've tried all the above and even took the ram out and back in again but it still won't start up, no chime no lights keyboards are unresponsive and I've got a disc stuck in the drive!
 
crezza said:
Sorry my mistake I did mean to put MPB, was on my iPhone when I posted that and the auto correction must of changed it to MCP!,
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Ah, thanks for explaining it. That explains, why there have been several occurrences of that "auto correct".

Still no joy with my laptop though, I've tried all the above and even took the ram out and back in again but it still won't start up, no chime no lights keyboards are unresponsive and I've got a disc stuck in the drive!
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Could this help?
MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues
 
That's brilliant, just booked an appointment for Thursday evening hopefully that's the case as my warranty is up now :mad:

Thanks for your help
 
Right I've connected it to my friends mac tonight and target drive does not connect to other mac.

I've got a genius appointment tomorrow at 7pm I'm praying it's not the logic board.

Will let you no what they say
 
Just got back from apple store and they diagnosed it with the logic board fault, my machine is the 2.5ghz so doesn't qualify with the faulty nvidia chip.

They will replace it for £390, is it worth replacing?

Any thoughts appreciated
 
Thanks for your replys

But I took the print out with me about the nvida chips and it says only models from 2.2-2.4 are covered

How do I prove that the 2.5 models do have them in, I mean I can't just go back up with a link to a forum that's not solid evidence! I was ready to kick up a fuss until he said my machine wasn't covered

Once agen thanks for everyone's input
 
Not to worrying just realised mine is late 2008 MacBook, I can't believe they told me its not covered on the Nvivda chip pi$$ed me off! Going to have it out with them on Friday!
 
ive just double checked my serial number on apple website and it says:

MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2008)

there only excepting

MacBook Pro (Early 2008)

GUTTED!!! looks like im gonna have to pay for a new logic board :mad:
 
ok i didnt rest there!!

I phoned apple care and they confirmed that I do have the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor in my MBP, so I have rang the apple store again spoke to the manager and they told me to bring it up to them tonight, they are going to be running a series of test to see if it is the chip thats faulty

But what would people recommend me saying if they cant run the test and they basically turn around and say we cant run the test so it cant be the chip thats faulty

I did tell them id been to see citizens advise and they said they are breaking the sales of good act (they soon changed there tone when I said this)!

Thanks for everyones input!!!
 
crezza said:
Right I gave my MCP a restart then the screen went black, tryed powering it down and starting up again and was still black. Tryed to put my snow leopard disc to try n recover none of the keys are working either, caps lock doesnt light up and I can't eject the snow leopard DVD now.

Please any ideas?

Tryed taking battery out and just running it straight from the socket

Not joy
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mbp 2008 would Not Boot. I spent half day trying -- tried Everything... No chime!!!
Solution: --> I put in a random CD ( w/ some save docs n pictures) AND it started right up. Yes!,
---> It did turn off last night.
Now --> Restarts by pushing Power Botton.
 
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