ASUS K501LX didn't turn on. Fixed, but worried.

[Barrett_killz]

Greetings.

I bought an ASUS K501LX laptop about 1,5 years ago. Today, I had this problem. I left the laptop turned on for about half an hour. When I came back, the laptop was off. Tried to turn it on, the power LED was on, but the laptop didn't want to turn on. No fan, no HDD, nothing. So I disassembled it, took off the battery, and found a lot of dust behind it, but it didn't cover any circuits I think. Anyway, first, I tried to connect the laptop to the power, without the battery. It started. So I cleaned that battery, and it powered on just fine. Now I'm worried that the motherboard can fail at any time. Does anyone know what actually happened?

 

[webworkings]

May have been overheating due to the dust and debris.