I am curious, because I want to purchase an XPS dell relatively soon.
If there are coupons I would definetly want to wait for one before shelling out the big bucks...
Mine did this too.
It happened twice: Once when the fan broke, the other time when the battery wasn't able to charge anymore.
Check I8kFanGUI to see if your fan over the processor is able to work.
Then remove the battery and...
My Dell did this when the fan broke.
It did it again when the Battery was running out of juice.
Check that the fan over the cpu is working properly. I think the program is called I8FanGUI or something like that.
Next remove the...
I was looking through chazzy's posts and quite a few of them seem helpful, but then he occasionally starts yelling at everyone. I think he's kinda like the forum crabby grandpa
That's sorta my advice too... The next time Dell has a big ol' 20% or 25% coupon, go ahead an nab one of these babies, or 9300 if it's affordable.
(oh and hey, 25% is going on right now )