Dell Inspiron 15R 5537 boot issues * NEED help *

December 29, 2016, 6:35 am

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I have a Dell Inspiron 15R 5537 bought in 2014

Running Windows 10, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of HDD

Bios (DELL Inc A08 4/30/2014

Bios mode UEFI (secure boot deactivated)

For the last 2-3 weeks my laptop has boot issues. From a regular start or a reboot!

It can take 30 secs to see the DELL logo up to 2-3 hours... YES up to 2 or 3 hours before the DELL logo appears. In average I would say 25 to 45 mins before the DELL logo appears. After when the DELL logo appears it boots correctly in Windows 10 and the laptop does not look to have any performance issues.

All of this started when the DELL system detected that newer hardware drives were available and a newer BIOS A09.

Installation of the new drivers for the hardware were completed without any issue. Laptop rebooted and final confirmation was given that new drivers were installed successfully.
Then I did the BIOS. The EXE started... showed me on the screen that my current bios was A08 and that the new one to be installed was A09. A command prompt window opened requesting asking if I wanted to proceed and type Y. Saw a % on the screen of the "flash" process and then the laptop rebooted. And I waited... and waited... more than 1 hour and still nothing. Blank screen. Power light on... HD light flickered and stopped. I waited 30 more minutes and I pressed the power button. Laptop powered of and I restarted it. Since then you don’t know when the laptop will boot. I tried to redo the bios update. Even re-installed Windows. Check HDD connection… is the BIOS simply corrupted? Any suggestions?

Thanks

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PowerEdge T20 won't power up, power button & fans repeatedly turn on/off forever

December 29, 2016, 6:51 am

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PowerEdge T20 won't power up, power button & fans repeatedly turn on/off forever

1 year old. Press the power button, power button lights up amber, then white, CPU fan spins up briefly, then a beep and the power button turns off and the fan shuts down. Three seconds later the cycle repeats forever until I depress the power button for 5 seconds.

Is this a bad power supply? A bad motherboard?

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Dell E6520 CPU Upgrade

December 29, 2016, 7:20 am

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I currently have a Dell E6520 laptop with an i5 2540M, 2.60GHz, 3MB Cache.

I would like to upgrade my processor to something which will work with Solidworks 2016. If this is possible, can someone suggest a processor that would be compatible with what I have?

Thank you in advance.

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Dell Latitude E6530 (NVS5200M)

December 29, 2016, 8:51 am

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Hello. Need help guys. I am stock. I have big problem with bios.

I have Dell Latitude E6530.

I had bios version A12. I need to upgrade bios to A13. I red that I need to downgrade to A03 than write A13. After successful downgrade I went to bios to switch SATA to AHCI. After apply this I got black screen. I wait 20 minutest and nothing changed. I turned OFF and On, and laptop didn't boot. I opened case to remove CMOS battery and I saw that battery cords are damaged. I live in small city. There is no Dell service. Local service found image of same laptop model and flashed it directly into bios chip. After this laptop boots normaly. But I can not upgrade or downgrade bios.

I have same serial. but other mac address.

Off bios runs well but after restart nothing happens. Under Windows 10 or DOS (pen drive) nothing works to write bios.

I downloaded FPT and try to flash bios but I receive Error 280: Failed to disable write protection for the BIOS space!

Here are screen shots of OFF flash utility.

How I can update my bios?

PLS help me. There is no information in Internet about my problem ((((

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Power and numlock indicator

December 29, 2016, 9:56 am

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Hi all,

Few days ago I bought a dell inspiron 5559 laptop but the power indicator is not working. Has it any fix or manufacturing defect?

The number lock indicator is also not working while the caps lock indicator is working (backlit keyboard)?

Please give solutions of these problems.

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Dell XPS 12 9250 Charging with a 45w 2.4a USB Charger

December 29, 2016, 10:21 am

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Hello,

is it possible to charge a Dell XPS 12 9250 with a 45w 2.4a USB Charger? I would like to use it with a usb-C Cable and load it with that extra charger while im on tour.

Thanks in advance.

best regards

Andreas

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Inspiron 3541 Keep Crashing

December 29, 2016, 10:32 am

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Heello,

My dell inspiron 3541 keep freezing and after few minute is crashed. Its does this once in a while beore but now its crashes sometime more than 5 time in a day depends on usage.

the error code is (thread_stuck _in _device _driver). I have try to update device drivers and even download the video driver twice. It still keep crashing with the same error code.

Please help as its frustrating . the system crashes while working on the laptop.

The OS is window 10, Service Tag: 2ZFN412

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Adding Ram to my computer

December 29, 2016, 10:59 am

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How do I find out if I can add RAM to my computer?

I have a Dell Latitude E6520. Currently have (2) Dual In-line Memory Module, 4GB, 1333MHz, 512X64 8K, 204.

Can I upgrade to get 16 GB?

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Dell XPS 13 right side USB drive trouble

December 29, 2016, 12:00 pm

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I've seen this problem already posted, but with no solution.

I have a brand-new Dell XPS 13. The right side USB drive functions, in that the drive shows up on Windows Explorer, and I can copy files to and from it. But autoplay on the right side does not function, so nothing happens when the drive is inserted. This only happens on thumb drives; hard drives seem to work. It's frustrating, because when I insert the thumb drive, I would like a window to pop up...but it doesn't work.

The left side USB port operates normally.

Any suggestions?

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XPS 15 9550 Thunderbolt 3 port not configured to advertised speed

December 29, 2016, 2:03 am

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There have been several reports of the Thunderbolt 3 port on the XPS 15 9550 (and 13 9350) being configured to a PCI 2x port instead of the more usual PCI 4X port. Users have been reporting speeds of up to 16 Gbps, only half of the advertised speed (40 Gbps) which should be 32 Gbps (with overheads) for data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/5hl5i4/xps_15_9550_not_able_to_reach_40gbps_over_tb3/

https://egpu.io/forums/pc-setup/xps-15-9550-not-able-to-reach-40gbps-over-tb3/

The result is significantly TB reduced performance to comparable machines, especially when using an external GPU set up.

If this is not hardwarematically configured as such, it may be possible this could be fixed with a firmware update. Will this be coming?

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Dell Inspiron 15R 5537 boot issues * NEED help *

December 29, 2016, 6:35 am

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I have a Dell Inspiron 15R 5537 bought in 2014

Running Windows 10, 8GB of RAM, 1TB of HDD

Bios (DELL Inc A08 4/30/2014

Bios mode UEFI (secure boot deactivated)

For the last 2-3 weeks my laptop has boot issues. From a regular start or a reboot!

All of this started when the DELL system detected that newer hardware drives were available and a newer BIOS A09.

Installation of the new drivers for the hardware were completed without any issue. Laptop rebooted and final confirmation was given that new drivers were installed successfully.
Then I did the BIOS. The EXE started... showed me on the screen that my current bios was A08 and that the new one to be installed was A09. A command prompt window opened requesting asking if I wanted to proceed and type Y. Saw a % on the screen of the "flash" process and then the laptop rebooted. And I waited... and waited... more than 1 hour and still nothing. Blank screen. Power light on... HD light flickered and stopped. I waited 30 more minutes and I pressed the power button. Laptop powered of and I restarted it. Since then you don’t know when the laptop will boot. I tried to redo the bios update. Even re-installed Windows. Check HDD connection… is the BIOS simply corrupted? Any suggestions?

Thanks

ps: forgot to add when trying to flash the bios to the new version I get this message

InsydeH20 - Secure Flash

Error : Invalid firmware image!!!

Please press any key to reset system......

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Dell XPS 15 9550 touchscreen not working after BIOS update

December 29, 2016, 11:16 am

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I just updated the BIOS for this laptop last night, the toushscreen stopped. working. I seem to remember that in the BIOS the toushcreen would show up under System Information. It is not showing up now. Do I also need to run the Touch Firmware Update Utility?

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XPS 13 9350 SSD upgrade from SATA3 to PCIe?

December 29, 2016, 11:21 am

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Hello,

I recently bought a XPS 13 with a 128gb ssd with the intention of upgrading it.

With the new PCIe SSDs available I wanted to see if I could possibly upgrade my XPS13 to one of those. However, I am not sure the PCIe would be compatible as the SSD the laptop came with was a SATA3 drive. Does anyone know if it is possible to switch out the sata3 drive with a PCIe? In one of the SSD upgrade tutorials I read for the XPS13 there appeared to be some disagreement on whether or not it was possible. I would rather not waste the time and money buying one if it is not compatible in the first place.

Thanks in advance.

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dell 7559 recurring BSOD driver_power_state_failure, auto-detect wants to reinstall same drivers over and over

December 29, 2016, 12:34 pm

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Hi All,

I'm having repeated issues with my 7559 purchased earlier this year. Repeated BSOD's, etc. Here are the issues:

BSOD stops with a driver power state failure message, then a screen that says it needs to reboot, "gathering information, will restart for you" but it never does.
Ridiculously slow response from File Explorer (spinning blue wheel)
Office slow to open
Office & other apps fall into a "non responding" state frequently
Dell driver auto-detect wants to install the same driver over and over, with or without repeated restarts, run as administrator, etc

Can someone please help? I've tried everything I've found in forums and on the web. Absent a resolution here, next step is a warranty return + eBay + buy another brand.

Thanks!

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Laptop problem, battery doesn't charge if laptop is on after 90%

December 29, 2016, 12:58 pm

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Hello,

My laptop is an Alienware 17 R3 and I recently encountered the following problem:

While playing the witcher 3 and plugging the charger(battery was at 30%), my laptop started to switch between plugged-in and unplugged charger mode, every second, intermittently.

I tried many times to remove the battery, reinstall drivers and change the charger's wire but didn't fix my problem.

Doing many tests I realized that problem persists only when battery is < 90%~, above this there isn't any problem...

I don't know what is the cause and how to fix it, maybe can be the OS(Windows 10 last update), I don't know..

BIOS is also on latest version for my laptop.

Can you help me please? It's a very critical problem and I need help asap!

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screen has black blotches patches spots along edge

December 27, 2016, 1:30 pm

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I have a Latitude E5500 series with a matte screen. It is almost 3 years old. The pixels along the top and side edges of the screen have slowly been going black. The top edge had lost up to 1/2 inch of display in some places. (see picture 1 from two weeks ago) Today there is a large black half circle at the top that is six inches wide and an inch thick (see picture 2). Strangely, some of the top edge that was black before now works again..

I assume it is related to the slight pressure it receives when in my computer backpack. It was not dropped or crushed or anything unusual. Are these laptops too fragile to transport?

Do you think that replacing the screen will fix this? Or is this a different problem? It is not under warranty any more so I may try to replace it myself. I see a video on YouTube about that. Any suggestions?

Picture 1 (two weeks ago)

Picture 2 (today - below)

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Power supply dead?

December 30, 2016, 1:28 am

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My XPS laptop fails to boot and battery is flat (tho' it is old).

The power adapter is cold and has no light on it.

BUT if I disconnect it from the laptop and re-plug it into the wall socket the light does come on.

However when I reconnect the adapter to the laptop, the light on it goes off again.

I assume this shows the PSU adapter has failed.

Can anyone confirm this for me?

Thanks

Nigel

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Dell 1397 WLan Mini-card does not recognize particular wifi

December 30, 2016, 3:14 am

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The version of 1397 WLan Mini-card is 4.176.75.21 (Driver date 01/10/2008), just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64.

It recognizes other wireless connections, but not mine. The router is TP-LINK TD-8951ND. I proved installing/ uninstalling the Mini-Card, updating drivers several times, run an online-dell diagnosis tool, and checking DeviceManager/Properties/Advanced to try with other antenna channels (Fragmentation Threshold, IBSS, Locally Administrated MAC Address, etc.) but nothing works, and I can not access via web the IP of the router.

Any suggestions?

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Thoughts on NEW ALIENWARE 17

December 30, 2016, 5:08 am

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The NEW ALIENWARE 17 laptops I am looking to purchase for University, to be used for 3D modelling such as inventor, Autodesk, CAD, etc etc. I will be studying Architecture. At the same time I would like to game on the laptop, mostly Steam Games, and Xbox Games.

Which of the range of the models would have the right amount of capabilities for me to do all the things ?

Not looking for the most powerful and most expensive, rather the correct specs for just what I need to do.

Thanks!!

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