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Retina MBP won't boot

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Thijs Moonen

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Original poster
Aug 22, 2011
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Hi,

Can you help me diagnose what's wrong with my MBP (MacBook Pro "Core i5" 2.4 13" Late 2013)?

description of symptoms:

The other day I was using it and ran out of battery. I plugged in the charger but it wouldn't wake up from sleep. I tried to hold the power button down to force a shut down and restart, nothing happened. Than, after about 5-10 minutes of fiddling with the power button, it suddenly woke up again (woke up, didn't reboot) as if nothing happened. I didn't think about it anymore.

Yesterday, a few days later, I shut the computer down for the first time since that incident and tried to restart it again. Nothing. No chime, nothing on screen. Basically as if I hadn't pressed the power button at all.

things I've tried:

I charged the battery to full overnight (charger indicator is functional) and tried
- holding down the power button for 10 seconds
- holding down option+cmd+p+r

Any ideas? Thanks!
 
Fantastic!

I helped a coworker who was having this problem about a week ago -- issue has not recurred since. This is unfortunately just one of those things that happens from time to time. But I'd recommend taking this time to make a backup if you don't have one.
 
My 2012 13" classic MBP has done this twice in the year that I have owned it. I have found that I have to press and hold the power button for 2-3 minutes before it will power on. Not sure why this happens but it's annoying. I would try this, 10 seconds may not be enough.
 
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