Unexplained MacBook death

ckjocelyn · 28 Sep 2010 at 09:38

Ok got home from work last night and went to boot up my MacBook and it's dead? Not even a peep from the thing. Night before it had worked fine then I shut it down before bed with no problems or errors? I've tried all the tricks like removing the battery and MagSafe plug holding down power for 5 seconds but still nothing.

Its a MacBook black 2.2 with 2gb ram. Osx snow leopard. I brought it new dec 2007. No problems up till now.

Any ideas? Hoping it's not the logic board.

Many thanks.

bods · 28 Sep 2010 at 12:38

Had a similar problem and it was the RAM module had come loose. Try removing and re-seating it.

topshot · 28 Sep 2010 at 13:24

Would still turn on without RAM

iraiguana · 28 Sep 2010 at 17:08

Consider taking it to a genius bar for diagnosis. If no apple care and its not an extended warranty failure... new macbook time I would guess.

Benihana · 28 Sep 2010 at 17:16

Have had this happen with several laptops of different origins. A compaq and toshiba, both shut down fine, but wouldnt start up again, in both cases it turned out to be a capacitor issue (sent it to a no fix/no fee inspection place in London)

schoey · 29 Sep 2010 at 13:08

you BOUGHT it new, not brought !!!!

Benihana · 29 Sep 2010 at 13:15

schoey said:
you BOUGHT it new, not brought !!!!

Seriously? Thats very helpful. Thanks for the input.

ckjocelyn · 29 Sep 2010 at 15:21

"I purchased it new in 2007"! No luck so far. Tried the above with ram etc. Going to apple store this afternoon. I'll post the damage up. Could be £450 for a logic board, OUCH! thank you for the advice. Got no computers at the mo as the other week my new build had to be returned faulty.

alistair55 · 29 Sep 2010 at 15:25

suicide?

schoey · 29 Sep 2010 at 16:20

Benihana said:
Seriously? Thats very helpful. Thanks for the input.

welcome

Slogan · 30 Sep 2010 at 00:15

A loved one has quite possibly dropped it in the bath and not told you.