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Turn on my macbook pro, it start for five seconds

I turn on my macbook pro, it starts for five seconds then dies; the screen never turns on. It just makes a sound, which sounds like a weak version of what it usually sounds like when it is loading.

Complete out of the blue problem, I use it a lot, but other than that nothing was done previously to it that was out of the ordinary.

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IMMEDIATELY after pressing the power button press and hold down "Command + Option + P + R" until you hear a SECOND "bong" sound then let go and see if startup continues as normal.

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