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Can't connect laptop to monitor via mini displayport

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Hello,

I have a Dell XPS 13" (9343) with Intel HD graphics 5500 and I can't connect it to my Dell s2415h monitor via mini displayport (mDP > hdmi). Both screens have 1920 x 1080 res. 60 hz..

Can you help me please? thx:)


Bluetooth problem

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I have dell inspiron 3537, my Bluetooth is opening but problem is when I try to add device, device will not add. Also, when I scan or search device then device not find. It is clear the point, device bluetooth is on.

Dell Inspiron 5547 Slow clicking noise

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My 2 year old 5547 just stopped starting no screen and a slow clicking noise. i took the back off and thought it was the hard drive. I replaced the hard drive ad restarted no change. I took out the battery and reseated it. Still a slow clicking noise that now seems to becoming from the fan which is clean no dust. Any ideas?

Thanks

Touchpad mouse buttons

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I have a Inspiron 1500, model 3558, with a touchpad oddity. Only about the leftmost ½" of the mouse button acts as a left mouse click. The rest of the button acts as a right click. Since I left-click probably 100 times as often as I right-click, this is very inconvenient. Dell Tech Support was completely useless when I called in. Does anyone know how to adjust this setting, if it is adjustable?

Hyper-V Network Switch and Broadcom Driver

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Whenever I make an external network adapter in Hyper-V the computer BSOD in about 5 minutes. The first time I got a memory management error and then I got a broadcom driver issue. According to BlueScreenView they were both caused by bcmwl63a.sys.

Camera not working properly

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Hello sir

        I have dell inspiron 5559 i5 laptop. My camera was not working properly. The image was dark. Then i run a problem detecting teat so it showed  3 problems:

Edge detection test: WWCO9VN7

Luminance depth test: warning

RGB colour depth test: warning

How can this be resolved? Is it a hardware or software problem?

XPS 15 9560 Bluetooth Problems

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Anyone else having bluetooth problems on this laptop? I've only had this laptop for 4 days, while everything else is great, I cannot get my devices to stay connected. 

Here's what I've done so far:

Reinstalled Bluetooth drivers from Dell.com

Ensured BIOS up to date

Reinstalled chipset drivers

Unpaired/rebooted/paired 

Set power management for Bluetooth to not go to sleep

Removed/reseated bluetooth wireless PCIE card.

My devices pair fine to my phone and other laptop. Both a Razer mouse and Jaybird X3 headset. I know both these devices work because I use them consistently throughout the day. They will not stay connected to the XPS. Sometimes, I am able to pair and they will drop within minutes. If I turn the mouse or headset off or it goes into standby mode - get ready for frustration. Rebooting sometimes fixes the issue but the connectivity is inconsistent. Why Dell chooses to use cheaply made Broadcom wireless cards in a premium flagship notebook is beyond me. I ordered an Intel 8265 which should be whitelisted since the drivers are available on the 9560 page. We'll see how it goes.

Dell Inspiron 1150 Vs. Inspiron 5160 Processor compatibility?

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I have a dell inspiron 1150 and 5160, they look very alike. Does anyone know if i can put the 3.06 mobile pentium 4 processor from my 5160 into the 1150? 

Only difference is the fan is much bigger on the 5160 and it runs very hot. The 1150 has a celeron 2.8 and the fan runs slow or not at all. 

Is there any other significant differences between these two laptops ?


XPS13 Bios password

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Hi,

I have a big issue with the BIOS password for an Dell XPS 13, i forgot the password and don't know how to reset it, i have tried removing the battery but the password stuck ... any advice's ?

thank you

Performance Issues on new XPS 15 9550 (i7 6700HQ)

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Hello Dell,

I'm having performance issues on my new Dell laptop that i bought about a month ago (Dell XPS 15 9550 3.5 i7, 16GB, 512GB SSD PCIe, 4K UHD Touch Display).

I'm using it to run software like Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator and more.

While the CPU using only up to 10% of its power, the RAM is getting to 10GB of 16 and i get a lot of lagging with the mouse movement and the computer runs very slow (opening windows explorer etc..).

I have also ran a full hardware inspection with the dell website and everything came out good.

Can you please advice me what to do and who to talk to if needed?

I bought the computer online and i find the computer unsatisfying for it's specifications.

How to unlock a Inspiron mini 10

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Hello to who ever saves me. My wife just pulled out her mini 10 which has not been used in quit some time. She turned it on and wanted a password. She nor I use passwords. 

So I do I unlock this. I tried t

o get into the Bios but no good every way you turn it wants a password. I did takeout the battery for about 5 Min. What do you think?

Dell XPS 15 9560 - Audio issues

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I have a Dell XPS 15 9560 (the one with 32 GB RAM) and I did a clean Windows 10 install yesterday. I had some static cracking noise when listening to music with my headphones before; it seems to be gone now after the reinstall (probably because my XPS is now using the default audio drivers).

However, I now have a different audio problem: every time I stop listening to music / watching videos, the audio system turns off in 10-15 seconds (i.e. I stop hearing that barely noticeable white noise in my headphones as they go completely silent). That's fine (I guess the audio system tries to save energy), but then when I play some music again, there is always a very loud cracking sound in my headphones before they start working again.

This bump just kills my ears every time, any ideas on how to fix it?..

XPS 13 9350 WDS Capture

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Hi Everyone,

We are having some issues capturing an image on a new XPS 13 9350. We have the Dell USB-C PXE Ethernet adapter as well as the new USB-C dock. We were able to push a base image of Windows 10 from our WDS server to the XPS 13, but now that we have the image created we cannot capture it. We are booting UEFI PXE IPV4 to our WDS server. It brings up the option to either deploy or capture (deploy already worked) but now when we go to capture, it loads the boot wim files like normal but when loading into the WinPE Environment it just goes to a black screen and stays there.

All of the drivers are injected into the boot images, as noted we were able to push an image to the XPS 13 but now we cannot capture it. None of our other dell hardware has issues capturing. Any ideas?

Thanks

XPS - 9360 - Screen resolution

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Google images are naturally fairly blurry ? I'm 99.9% sure i have the right settings with regards to the screen, but i have googled some crystal clear pics and they just don't seem clear. Is this just what i'm going to get with a laptop or am i doing something wrong ?

change xps13 2-1 screen orientation

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I wish to know why the xps13 2-1 doesn't auto switch screen orientation automatically when I switch from laptop to tent mode ? if it cant do automatically, how to do it manually or quick toggle key ?

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Laptop turning off when plugging or unplugging in charging cord

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When I plug in my laptop to charge the laptop turns off, and when I unplug the charging cord from the computer it turns off. Does anyone know whats going on? I have an Inspiron 15 5558.

The brightness of my laptop cannot be adjusted

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I am frustrated with my Dell 7720 17R (Inspiron) laptop display. I have tried to reduce the brightness with Fn+F4 key but to no avail. I also noticed that the Fn key is not working with any of the function key commands. Someone should help me please.

XPS 13: prevent sleep from disconnecting from wifi when copying files

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I have the latest XPS 13 laptop with Windows 10 home.

I was copying some files from my desktop to my laptop via wifi (they're both connected to the same router) but noticed that, after about 5 minutes, the laptop would switch off the display and disconnect from wifi. I had to move the mouse every 4 minutes or so to prevent the laptop from going to sleep and losing wifi. I tried copying with both windoes explorer and teracopy, and the result is the same.

Is there a way to make sure the laptop doesn't disconnect from wifi if it is busy doing something over wifi, like copying files?

Black Screen After Bios Update failed Inspiron 5755

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Hello i need help with my computer,um i recently used a inspiron 5755 and i updated my bios so that i could fix something. unfortunately,it froze half way through and i didn't know what to do so i had no choice but to turn my laptop off.the screen was frozen and not making more progress so i could not move my mouse nor access task manager to quit the problem.i have not seen that many errors people have with the inspiron 5755 so i don't know if there's many fixes to it.

the problem i'm having now is that when i boot up my computer i have a blackscreen,not even a dell logo just nothing,and i can still hear the fans going but there's nothing displayed on my laptop screen.i have tried many methods of getting around it but each attempt failed.i tried to hold End while the battery was out and then plugging in my ac-adapter but it wouldn't work.i really would like to know if any of the usb flash drive methods would work for my laptop because i don't want to go through the pain of disassembling my laptop or resetting my bios.if there's any thing you could do to help me i would appreciate it :)

if you can fix it like this one please tell me,

en.community.dell.com/.../19593398

Latitude 3330 BIOS update failure (A03 -> A08)

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Hi,

I got a latitude 3330 which crashed while updating BIOS (A03 -> A08). Now when starting the notebook, the DELL logo shows up but just stays there forever.

If I hit ESC, a process bar shows up but is stuck at about 75%. If I press F12, it says "preparing one-time boot menu..." but nothing appears.

What can I do to recover the BIOS?

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