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July 1st, 2023 04:00
Vostro 3750, faulty motherboard, smoke
today morning when I was using my laptop for some important work suddenly red smoke started coming out near charging port and exhaust fan. I immediately turned off the power supply. Afternoon I dismantled my laptop and observed burning in motherboard near power cable area. Am attaching the pic for reference.
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ejn63
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July 1st, 2023 06:00
The notebook survived 12 years of use (it dates from 2011). Unless the drive was evidently damaged, the data is probably still on it and accessible; purchase an adapter to connect it to a USB port on a working system to do so.
The rest of the system has a total value of perhaps $20-30 US, so no - Dell isn't going to repair or replace it, nor is it even worth doing so, any more than an automaker will replace a car that's that age and has 200,000 miles on it.
Recycle it and replace it.
Uma Shankar Gupta
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July 1st, 2023 06:00
Thanks for your inputs.