It took a long time to sort out because we had to wait for a motherboard to arrive but in the end a new motherboard cured it. Not great news but sharing an odd fix that went past the shop.
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My Dell Inspiron 1545, not working properly. It boots only when you don't power up for few days. Once ON, then I need to wait few more days to turn it ON again. I started inspecting mother board. I have downloaded schematic from net. I found, the power section is not getting enabled. Ther is no 5V_ALW and 3P3V_ALW. The 18V from the adapter and 3.3V RTC and 5V VCC1 are stable.Help me to further debug the problem.

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