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Dell G3 3579: Motherboard Short circuit or Failure?

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:44:18 -0700

I have been recently having a lot of issues with my Dell G3 3579

This time while i was restarting my GPU driver using Ctrl+Shift+Alt+B my laptop froze up, i could hear the music still in the background but the screen went black, so i shut it down by holding the power button,

However after that my laptop has never turned on, i have done hard reset, cleared the cmos by removing the 2032 battery and completely replaced it, reseated the charging port, reseated the memory and the SSD and 2.5 drive and i only see a faint split second led flash when trying to turn it on sometimes on battery power, disconnecting the battery or trying to turn it on on plugged in does nothing, not even that split second led, i have taken a look at the mobo itself and i do not see any bad or blown components, i have also measured parts of the Motherboard circuit with a multi meter and there is power going to proper places.

The laptop is also not in warranty and i am not in the US for better parts service.

⟐ Commented February 01, 2022 at 21:44 MST

Dell G3 3579: Replacing c drive 1Tb with 2.5" 2tb hdd

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:56:13 -0700

Will a 2.5" 2TB sata hdd fit in my dell g3 3579 in place.of the drive

⟐ Commented December 02, 2025 at 4:56 MST

Dell G3 3579: Why does the bottom of my laptop screen get a splash screen when

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:13:48 -0700

My computer screen will appear about 5 minutes after booting up, at the bottom of the screen about 3 cm splash screen, usually black and white or colorful horizontal bars, about 5 minutes after booting up will fade away, what's going on?

⟐ Commented April 30, 2025 at 1:13 MST

Dell G3 3579: Is the motherboard shorted?

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:13:29 -0700

Hi.

My G3 3579 doesn’t turn on nor shows signs of life at all. It doesn’t even turn on the leds when the AC adapter is plugged in.

I don’t know exactly what happened, but my guess is that the motherboard shorted / fried because I opened the laptop to clean the fans, and completely removed several pieces until I realized I forgotten to FIRST unplug the battery.

When I tried to turn it on after I reassembly it, it did turned on but the Dell logo didn’t show up. Fans, keyboard and lights went all on, then turned off again in like 1 sec. I tried several times to turn it on, until it completely stopped to show signs of life and now it is as I first mentioned: not even turns led on when the AC adapter is plugged in.

What tests should I run? What’s your guess, can this be solved?

⟐ Answer edited August 10, 2021 at 1:13 MST

Dell G3 3579: Touchpad is very hot and malfunctioning

Tue, 26 May 2020 10:42:46 -0700

Recently, my touch pad has been getting very hot and the touch pad I have to hard press it to get it to register the click, it’s not stuck, it just won’t register with a click, you have to press very hard for it to register, when I move the trackpad, it works, but the clicks and It is hot.

⟐ Answer edited May 26, 2020 at 10:42 MST