on the motherboard itself look at the capacitors (the black things with arrows down the sides) if they appear to be buldging or even leaking then they are your problem. when they leak or have leaked they ooze a batter acid kind of looking thing and when it drys its almost like a powder. If it is the capacitors then u have 2 options try do a home repair by buying new capacitors that are the same time as the ones on your motherboard their normally really cheap to buy so i would recomend replacing all the capacitors on the motherboard. The problem with this though is that it is extremly difficult to replace because of the amount of close worked curcuits on ure motherboard a stray drop of solder could cause even more problems. The other option is to just buy new motherboards because otherwise i dont think that there is much else that u can do.
I have had about 5 break down at my work doing the repairs on them worked fine for 3 of them but u have to have a steady hand a fine tipped soldering iron and a basic knowlege of electronics. These are all just suggestions not garuntees so if u do attemp to do this then dont come complaining to me about it not having worked.
Basically the lesson to all this is that unless you replace your computer every year don't buy a dell and expect it to last Dell time and time again i have seen dells fail and as a result i no longer buy dells.
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