It may or may not be the mainboard, but if the battery is known to be bad, it should be removed from the system. Unplug, disconnect the battery from the system board and hold the power button for 30 sec.
Remove and reinstall the memory module(s).
Plug in (no battery) and see if the system will then power up.
If it will, leave the battery out until you can purchase a new one.
As for older systems, they were generally built with far more margin than the slim, lightweight XPS you have -- the design life of a notebook is about three years (in fact many manufacturers -- Apple among them -- won't offer more than 3 year warranties). This one being four, it has outlived its expected life by a year.
Just about any new system will run hotter, and have less margin for cooling than older systems did -- in other words, yes -- some new systems exceed the design life but many do not. And that is regardless of the name on the outside of the system.
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It may or may not be the mainboard, but if the battery is known to be bad, it should be removed from the system. Unplug, disconnect the battery from the system board and hold the power button for 30 sec.
Remove and reinstall the memory module(s).
Plug in (no battery) and see if the system will then power up.
If it will, leave the battery out until you can purchase a new one.
As for older systems, they were generally built with far more margin than the slim, lightweight XPS you have -- the design life of a notebook is about three years (in fact many manufacturers -- Apple among them -- won't offer more than 3 year warranties). This one being four, it has outlived its expected life by a year.
Just about any new system will run hotter, and have less margin for cooling than older systems did -- in other words, yes -- some new systems exceed the design life but many do not. And that is regardless of the name on the outside of the system.