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Your Dell should briefly initialise the fan as soon as you turn it on (during the POST boot). So you should be able to feel the brief gust of air coming from the fan duct. I believe the temperature sensor for the fan is located beneath the processor, which is …
you mentioned "one of the caps looked blown", look at all the other caps as well. Any 'can' type capacitor that looks like it has a distorted shape, should be replaced. The electrolitic paste used in this particular type of capacitor starts to 'dry' out over a period of time, …
The cable with black and white wires which has small 'gold' connectors at the end, is the arial which connects to the 'wireless' module inside the laptop. Not all of the earlier models were shipped with the wireless module, however most had the arial fitted (around the LCD Screen). Fitting …
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