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The clicking is coming from the IO board where the magsafe connector is. The fans can turn freely and it does the same with the HD connected or not. The top case is not attached.

Last night I thought I would take out the logic board to see if there was any obvious damage underneath, The thermal paste was spilling off the "chips" and onto the green surround, I scraped most of the overspill off, blew of any dust I could see and put it back together again. I didn't have any...

The clicking when attached to the mains is a double click (sort of on/off) on a quick press of the button but sounds just like a car indicator (continuous) if you hold the button. If running off the battery it will on/off click once then not again unless you leave it for a minute. I didn't...

So it does sound like it could be an overheating issue? Is the component that would prevent the computer turning on due to an overheating issue be separate from the logic board?

It was the santa rosa model, would this have changed when the logic board was replaced and if so is there a way to find out what it is now without turning it on? And please excuse my ignorance but would it not be that if the logic board was faulty it would stay faulty and not come back to life...

ha, guess thats a good question, quite a long story but basically the backlight died and so I took it to a company that claimed to be an apple authorised tech, they weren't authorised at all (not naming names but they are the primary independant retailer in Scotland!! ie very well known!!) and...

Hi, I've posted this on another couple of forums but struggling to find any advice. Hopefully someone on here can help. Couple of days ago my macbook pro (A1226) simply wouldn't turn on at all. Running of the battery and pressing the power button would return nothing, running of the mains...