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Blinking sleep light. MacBook won't boot.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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Ack! Out of nowhere my MacBook shut off, and now the sleep light on the front latch blinks -- not gradually fading in and out -- but blinks on and off. It won't power on. Tried popping the battery out, popped it back in, nothing. Any ideas folks?
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Glasgow, Scotland UK
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it may have gone to sleep if it felt that the battery was low. have you tried pluging into the mains?
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"You can't waste a life hating people, because all they do is live their life, laughing, doing more evil."
-ALPHA ROBERTSON,whose daughter was one of four girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church in 1963.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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Yes, it's plugged into the power outlet. Orange light on the magnet plug.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Tried the programmer's restart? control-command-power. Or hold the power button down for 10 seconds to force a shutdown.
If that doesn't work: You should take the battery out, disconnect AC, and press the power button for 5 seconds. Wait a minute, plug everything back in. Should power up at that point. This is how you reset the PMU on the MBP.
Report back if none of this works. Have you installed RAM lately?
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Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Did you use the xom.efi hack that came out before Bootcamp? Or are you using Bootcamp itself?
The firmware could have been affected.... (I've used both, currently bootcamp, although I haven't had problems).
On Apple Support Download page, you can download the Firmware Restoration CD for the early 2006 intel macs. I suggest burning this and trying it out. Once you burn the cd, put it in and hold the power button until the same LED (the sleep light) you're talking about blinks in rapid succession several times, then let go.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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Hi
My MB just started to do something similar. Did you resolve your issue ?
Thanks - Michael
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Try reseating your RAM? When I upgraded mine it wasn't pushed in all the way and wouldn't boot back up: the light was blinking.
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