I have an Alienware R4 17 that has been running fine for a few years. I left it running most of the time on my desk. It went dark. When I go to power it up, I get nothing.

The Blue LED light at the end of the power cord is out. When I take it out of the laptop, and unplug it from the wall, and then plug it back into the wall, the blue LED comes on at the end of the jack. When I plug that into the laptop, it goes out again. I have two power adapters, and tried them both, but get the same thing. I have another Dell laptop, and both power adapters work fine there.

There is no power coming into the Alienware laptop.

I tried disconnecting the battery, and plugging it in again, but get the same results.

I took it to a local repair shop (I don't think its Dell certified) and he looked it over, called me back, and told me "Something is shorting out somewhere on the Motherboard" -- but he doesn't know where, and wouldn't know how to find it. Essentially, he is saying it is unfixable.

I find that hard to believe.

Is this something worth pursuing? Or is this laptop essentially Dead, RIP, forget about it?