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I dropped my MacBook Pro 13“ Unibody late 2011. It hit a wood floor from about 2 feet, and landing on the end where the Hard drive and Optical drive are. It will not power up. Pushing and holding power button yileds no sound or other activity. I have tried several different options for trying to get something to happen. -Shift+control+option and power button for 10 secs -long press power butting then press again Battery is charged and showing full green on the other side. I took the bottom cover off to see if anything was visibly broken or disconnected. All connections I could see were intact. I took out the hard drive and was able to access it using a USB enclosure, so it does not seem to be a hard rive issue. Is there anything else that I can check? Could the drop have damaged the cable to the power button? I could not find a replacement guide for the power button. Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
Try disconnecting the battery and then plug in the magsafe, the Mac should boot on its own, same as pressing power button, you should see fan spinning. If that doesn’t work, the logic board might have been damaged by the hit. You can’t see any power button replacement guide as it doesn’t exist, if that was the issue (unlikely) you’d need to replace the keyboard of which power button is a part of.
