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I know of a specific problem with these...
Check the capacitors behind the processor socket (get the fan with the green hood off to look down on them easily if needed) and check to see if the tops look swollen. If not those, then check the capcitors next to the memory slots, they may have swollen tops too. These swollen caps sometimes leak out some orangish/brown gook. It's generally pretty obvious...
Have you seen a thermal event error message on your screen at any time? Thats also indicative of bad mainboard capacitors.
Ive seen thirty or forty of these - and the extension on the warranty for the mainboards with the bad caps ran out in January just past, so if the caps are bad, you'll need to hunt one on Ebay, a computer shop, or you could buy one from Dell (ouch...).
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