A friend of mine gave me his not working laptop to try to fix it. the Laptop is a DELL inspiron 15 7000 (couldn’t find a decent match online so i wont post any link).

The laptop is completely dead, if charged (charger led lights up) it doesen’t do anyting, the laptop charging led dosen’t light up, BUT THE CPU STARTS GETTING HOT. With a fast check with the multimeter the charger looks healty.

what i did:

-pressed the power button without the battery for a minute.

-removed/swapped ram and removed for 30s the cmos battery

-applyed fresh thermal paste.

I think the mobo is dead even tho it looks healty, I will try to change the charger.

I would really appreciate your thought about this problem, i dont really deal with laptops, but the fact the cpu gets hot gives me a little hope (even if it probably shouldn’t)