MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Wont Turn on

MacBook Pro (Late 2008) Wont Turn on

I have a late 2008 MBP that will no longer turn on. The orange/green light on the magsafe connector lights up but nothing happens when I press the power button. I suspect its the logic board since OSX was often freezing prior to this and I had to hold down the power button to do a hard shutdown. I know there is another little board that the magsafe connector connects to, but since the magsafe connector is lighting up I dont suspect that. Just trying to pick some brains on here. Thank you in advance.

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bert [Entry]

"keithorbell

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bert [Entry]

"Try an SMC reset.

Connect the power adapter to the Mac. On the MacBook Pro's keyboard, hold down the Shift+Control+Option keys and the Power button at the same time. Release all keys and the power button at the same time – the little light on the MagSafe adapter may change colors briefly to indicate the SMC has reset."

bert [Entry]

"Hello

it may be relative

but I was starting to think about taking the macbook late 2008 aluminium to the service center in the city I live.

I did several times all the steps shown in this link, but nothing worked.

https://support.apple.com/en-om/HT201295

What actually worked for me is the experimentarion of making the steps given in the link and also letting battery out, pluggin the magsafe to the laptop without a battery installed.

It is on right now, guess gonna see how it goes."

bert [Entry]

Louis Rossmann adresses the problem in this video and shows a solution, which is resoldering a capacitor.