I have a DELL XPS 15 9550 and a soundcard (Focusrite Saffire LE) which connects through Firewire 800 to the computer. I can not find any way to connect it to the Thunderbold 3 input of the Dell laptop. Apple has released an adapter with female firewire 800 but male thunderbolt "2"...
Any solutions?
i upgraded my laptop to win 10 but it has issues. so i want to revert back to win 7 oem version, so that i can use the key provided in the sticker on laptop.
how do i know whether the laptop came with 64 or 32bit so that the performance doesnt get compromised and importantly the key works. thank you in advance
inspiron n5010
windows 7 home basic oa india
Yesterday i bought Dell 5559 laptop core i5.
I want to know how to make sure the battery is orignal. because i felt like battery is not orignal . sometimes it show me 3 hours remaining and then suddenly 2 hours. help me to find its orignal or not
Hi,
As the title suggests, there was a mandatory update to the OS. Post which my Inspiron started well. However, a few hours later blanked out. upon trying to reboot the message came on to the screen that the update has caused your system to behave the way it was behaving.
I tried to follow the onscreen instructions to reboot and roll back the changes. However, to my surprise the on screen diagnostics showed that there is no hard disk connected. Ho hum!!!!
I had a factory back up stored on a flash drive, when i inserted the flash drive it loaded for a while and then there was a low disk space error flashing on the screen... this caused me to panic... as now the only good way to get my factory settings look bleak...
Any help here will be appreciated...
Thanks!
Nowzad
Hello
I have an Inspiron 7548 laptop with two USB 3.0 ports (one with PowerShare) and one USB 2.0 port.
I have tried charging my iPhone 6 in "Low Power Mode" with an Apple cable at several instances from all the 3 ports and found the following average rates of charging (with 3G ON and almost no usage):
USB 2.0 port - ~1%/2min
USB 3.0 port - ~1%/2min
USB 3.0 port with PowerShare - ~1%/1min
My question is - is it possible to achieve similar charging current on the other USB 3.0 port? Since USB 3.0 is capable of providing up to 900mA, can I somehow get it to pump this much current by some driver/software manipulation?
Extra information:
I am aware of some adapters which can force higher current out of a USB port - is it possible that they may actually damage the port? (assuming that the port is not configured to provide higher current as per its driver)
While I found an average of ~1%/2min for charging on all USB ports (two 3.0 and one 2.0 with PowerShare) on my previous laptop XPS 15 L502X, in Inspiron I can distinctly see one port charging the phone at twice the rate.
I suppose that only one port is providing 900mA, while others give only 500mA. I checked the controller for the ports on HWiNFO64 and found all the 3 ports coming from the same controller USB xHCI Compliant Host Controller (on Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft)), which also happens to have Wi-Fi adapter, touchscreen adapter installed on it, as per HWiNFO64.
Also, I checked on the Device Manager and it doesn't tell me the "Total Power Available" on the power tab for this hub - this hub doesn't even have a power tab in its properties window.
My system specs are-Intel Core i7-5500U; 16GB RAM; Radeon R7 M270 4GB;
I am also attaching a screenshot of the HWiNFO64's USB tab - there under USB xHCI Compliant Host Controller:
Port 1=USB 3.0 port with PowerShare
Port 2=USB 3.0 port
Port 3=USB 2.0 port
Any ideas you might have about this are welcome. Thanks in advance!
Regards,
RS
I'm interested in buying the Dell Stylus for my Inspiron 13 5000 2x1. So, I need to know if this product works on my laptop.
Have anybody tried it?
Because I have searched on the internet but i'm still not able to find anything about the Synaptics Digitizer.
thx in advance
Hi,
I recently bought a new battery for my laptop Inspiron-15 N5010. But the battery stops to charge after about 89% and in the notification i see that it says "89%available(plugged in, not charging)" . What could be the possible reasons?? I set the settings in POWER OPTIONS to default also.
PS: I bought original battery only with original dell seal and packet. But I bought it in Snapdeal online E-commerce site.
I purchased Adobe Acrobat Standard when I bought my new laptop, but I have not been able to download it. It says I need to register the system, but a quick pop up occurs and quickly disappears. Help!
Hello guys
I just got my new XPS 13 today and I love it, allthough it didn't ship with 2333 MHz RAM as I thought. It seems Dell changed it in the last moment before shipping my computer.
I don't know what to do with the battery. My old desktop had this batteri saver-plan, were it would charge the battery to 60 pct. and then use the AC-charger. But this feature doesn't seem to be present on my XPS 13?
I tried an app called Dell Command Power Manager, but it doesn't seem to work. Should it?
Thanks :-)
Oh and btw: can I fix the mousepad lag? It's really annoying.
Although the i7 6700HQ CPU is rated to run up to 3.5GHz on Turbo Boost, I don't ever see it go over 3.2GHz. Is that normal for the XPS 15 9550? What do others see? Is the max speed limited by the BIOS (on version 1.2.0 A6)?
Got my XPS 13 9360 today & noticed odd USB behaviour, namely that the 2 ports are behaving very differently. Dell tech support can't find a solution so whilst they work on it I'm curious if anyone else has this. Odd behaviour as follows:
1) Trying to create recovery media with 16GB flash drive - when plugged into right hand USB the recovery creator says "drive must be at least 16GB" & NEXT button is greyed out. If I try again & de-select 'back up system files to recovery drive" I get a similar message but saying "drive must be at least 512MB" & again the NEXT button is greyed out.
(I appreciate that a 16GB drive only has 14.8GB useable capacity but the 2nd option only needs 512MB!)
When plugged into left hand port, recovery creator detects the same 16GB no problem & NEXT button is available to start creating recovery media.
2) When USB flash drive & a Sandisk Extreme 500GB is connected to righ hand port, there is no Autoplay pop up. But when plugged into left hand port, AutoPlay pop up appears & makes usual noise.
3) There is no 'safely remove USB' icon in task bar when either drive is plugged into right hand port, but when plugged into left hand port, the icon is there.
For both ports though, USB drive is shown in 'My PC' & able to read/write files.
Any thoughts really appreciated! Thanks :)
Hi all,
I have an XPS13 9350 which I purchased in July 2014. It's an i7 processor and was bought with touchscreen.
For some months I had not used the touch screen until a few weeks ago. However, when I tried to use the touch screen I found it no longer worked. On investigation I found that Dell diagnostics didn't even recognise that I had a touch screen.
I have done extensive research online but have found no solution. I have tried the HID power management process to no avail. In control panel I have no Pen and Touch icons so I assume Windows cannot see the touch screen either.
I have read that this issue is related to Windows 10 so it shows that it must be over a year since I last tried to use the touch screen. Obviously I don't use it a lot but it is annoying that the laptop is not working as specified.
Is anyone able to help?
Have a 7470 and it seems to randomly beep and occasionally hear a clicking sound on it. Even while i'm running the hardware tests it randomly beeps. is something wrong with this laptop? or instance, the hard drive test is running from the boot diagnostics, and it is just randomly beeping during it, not the usual noises you get during a hardware test. even when booted into Windows it randomly makes beeps.
This is what has started popping up on my new laptop. When I say new, its less than a week old! The AC power supply IS a Dell 45w AC adapter, it's the one that came with the machine! Anyone have any idea what the issue might be?
I have just acquired a Dell XPS 14 (L421x). It appears to be unused as there is no software other than the Win7 x64 O/S.
* C: drive is a 32 gig SSD (physical drive 1). The C: drive contains all the operating directories (Windows, Program Files, Users, etc). It is almost full with about 400MB remaining.
* D: drive is a 500 gig SATA (physical drive 0). The D: drive is empty with 500GB remaining.
When I tried to install software (Office 2016), there was not enough space available (surprise!). I can't imagine that this drive configuration is factory-original, but I'm unsure of how to proceed. Do I need to do a factory-restore using the 500GB drive as the C: drive? Is that even an option with a factory restore?
We have an optiflex 780 that is (was) running windows 7. It is not able to boot and appears that the partioning needs to be re set/recovered. We have been trying to obtain a windows 7 32bit recovery disk from dell technical/sales but have been unsuccessful. Does anyone have a suggestion besides buying a new os?
Please excuse me as my knowledge on computers is very limited.
I just bought a Dell Inspiron second hand. The person who sold it to me has no knowledge or doesn't want to tell me what's wrong with it. A few minutes after you power it on and start using the touchpad it will sometimes glitch. The screen will go grey and there will be lines. If I stop using the touchpad for a few minutes it will go away. But it continues to do it randomly every few minutes.
I would really like to know what is wrong with it and how I fix it. I know that it has been dropped as there is a chip in the corner under the keypad.
hi All,
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525, that will power on when pressing the Power button, but all i get is a black screen with NO POST or boot screen. The only lights i get is, a light at the bottom on steadly, indicating power. And a light at the top near the power button with a "Lock" with arrow pointing down in it, and that is flashing. Please help, is it the motherboard thats failed?
Upon resuming from hibernation the laptop started disk check and repair. Then desktop loaded but it became sluggish and eventually unresponsive. After a Hard boot (long press power key) it takes 20 mins or so to boot and eventually doesn't reach login screen or when it does it seems to hang at random stages. Sometimes I'm able to do a login after being patient but the desktop screen is highly unresponsive invariably requires hard boot. Please suggest things i can try. Thanks
