... about 2 months ago, causing a lot of overheating and a few forced shutdowns.Died isn't quite the correct term, as they have turned on three times since then.
Twice, after the computer got so hot it shut itself down, the three fans ran full-blow when I restarted it. But during each re-start, the CPU and RAM ran at 100%, causing startup to take almost 20 minutes, and forcing me to shut it back down.
The third time is when I updated the BIOS, the fans ran for 3 or 4 seconds while the computer made it's changes, then went silent again.
Not exactly reliable! And as I primarily game on the laptop, its a giant paper weight right now. I finally finished with Dell's support script of problems, and they're having me send it in. I'm glad, but I've seen one computer that came back from Dell worse than it left.
Oh well!