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Inspiron 7737 loud beeping noise when booting

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Hi everyone,

This morning when powering my laptop after it being on sleep mode it did 7 successive beeping noise in interval and did not boot, after a few try it finally booted without noise. I am concern that something may go wrong very soon what should I do?


Apples and Oranges, Older Dell Laptops compared to Newer Models...

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Have a L501x that has been great (except for the USB 3 issues (that I knew about before buying thanks to Internet Forums)) but now is time to look around for a replacement. 

I can find websites that compare power of processors (i7-740 QM vs today's Intel processors) and I can find the speed of memory (2010 vs today) but can't find a simple metric to compare old and new.

I know there is not one simple number (today's laptop is X times better) but you would think there would be summaries instead of wading thru benchmarks?

On the other hand seem like processor changes have been striving for less power consumption rather than throughput???

rubber seal coming loose on screen of Latitude E7440

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Does anyone know how to replace the rubber strip that surrounds the screen?  It's come loose along the left side and I can't figure out how to get it back into0 the track. Thanks  

Dell Inspiron 15 3521 suddenly has no power.

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My Dell Inspiron 15 3521 updated on Thursday.  After it finished updating it ran for about 30 minutes.  I then received a blue screen of death that just said it ran into an unexpected error.  Went by too fast to get the exact error message.  Restarted and worked fine that night.  Friday morning it ran for about an hour and then suddenly just shut off.  I was unable to turn it back on.  Zero power at all.  No lights - just dead.  Any suggestions?  I tried holding the power button down, removing the battery, reseating the memory, etc. 

The laptop was purchased in September 2013.  Everything was working fine and now nothing.  Is it worth having it looked at or repaired? It just seems odd that it happened immediately after updating.

 It is full of files, videos and photos that I have not backed up since Christmas :-(  I still have a ton of room so it is not a space issue. 

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. 

XPS 15 9560 Color Accuracy

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Just received a Dell XPS 15 9560 replacement due to a screen flickering. The replacement has the same issue so literally there is no difference between my original laptop and the replacement except for the display. As seen in the attached picture, one laptop has a warmer color and the other a cooler color with both being at the same color settings. I have to send one laptop back and was wondering if anyone could answer which one is more color accurate out of the two. Thanks in advanced.

XPS 13 9365 (2017) SD cart slot issues

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First, the SD card slot was not installed at all out of the box. 

I downloaded the drivers from the support page, and at least the SDXC card is now visible.

However, simple operations such as creating a new folder, copying a small file to the SD card take many minutes and the entire system becomes extremely slow. Then, it appears the operations are NOT actually performed (the new folder is not really on the card, the copied file is not really there...). Sometimes there is a bizarre error (The file volume has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid) while trying to copy to the SD card.

All in all I was unable, so far, to use any SD card inserted in that slot...

posible solution

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I accidentally found that when my cell phone connected to my xps15, the annoying coil whine completely disappeared.I know this is not a permnant solution,but I hope it helps to fighure out where the problem is.

Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming - upgrade question please

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Hi all! Please advise which is less expensive to upgrade, RAM or 1TB drive? Have two choices, one is with 128SSD + 1TB & 8GB RAM an other with RAM 16GB DDR4 + 512SSD? It is $200 difference. Which one you would buy? Thanks in advance!


Dell Inspiron 3542 shutdowns abruptly when moved or when display tilted

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Hello,

I have Dell Inspiron 3542 which is close 2 years old. It was working fine but since 2 months it started shutting down abruptly when the display is tilted or the laptop is moved. This issue has become more frequent from the past 2 days. I did Dell Diagnostic check which showed a message saying the battery is not installed even though the battery was in place.

I also saw the laptop juggling between battery and AC power when it is on. I see "Battery Not detected" message in the system tray when switched to AC power. 

I suspect this might be a loose connection between the battery terminals and the motherboard. So can anyone confirm this and let me know if we can fix it in home? 

XPS 13 9360 overheats when WiFi is on

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Hey guys,

I've been using XPS 13 for ~3 months and noticed it's constantly running fan on full power which is really noisy and still gets really really hot. It also affect performance because apparently it scales down CPU frequency.

I thought I have dust in my fan so I opened it up, cleaned it but there were not much.

I'm on Linux Mint 18, kernel 4.8, latest BIOS (as of today).

Here is my sensors output

coretemp-isa-0000

Adapter: ISA adapter
Physical id 0: +86.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +82.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +81.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +25.0°C (crit = +107.0°C)

iwlwifi-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +64.0°C

pch_skylake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +74.5°C

when I switch on laptop temp is pretty much the same to what you see here. It grows only for iwlwifi-virtual-0. It starts at 25C and then stays at ~62-65C.

Here is my cpufreq-info output

cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: intel_pstate
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 0.97 ms.
hardware limits: 400 MHz - 3.50 GHz
available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 3.50 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1.90 GHz.
analyzing CPU 1:
driver: intel_pstate
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 1
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 1
maximum transition latency: 0.97 ms.
hardware limits: 400 MHz - 3.50 GHz
available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 3.50 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1.90 GHz.
analyzing CPU 2:
driver: intel_pstate
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 2
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 2
maximum transition latency: 0.97 ms.
hardware limits: 400 MHz - 3.50 GHz
available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 3.50 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1.90 GHz.
analyzing CPU 3:
driver: intel_pstate
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 3
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 3
maximum transition latency: 0.97 ms.
hardware limits: 400 MHz - 3.50 GHz
available cpufreq governors: performance, powersave
current policy: frequency should be within 400 MHz and 3.50 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 1.90 GHz.

So even though I switched governor to performance it throttles my CPU.

Here is output of sudo lshw -C network

description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless 8260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:3a:00.0
logical name: wlp58s0
version: 3a
serial: e4:b3:18:bc:bd:2b
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.8.0-45-generic firmware=22.391740.0 ip=192.168.1.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:286 memory:dc200000-dc201fff
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: veth94010cb
serial: 4e:78:15:56:66:62
size: 10Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=veth driverversion=1.0 duplex=full link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 3
logical name: veth3a92142
serial: 5a:16:c0:23:b4:54
size: 10Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=veth driverversion=1.0 duplex=full link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s
*-network:2
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 4
logical name: veth52ba1dd
serial: a2:a1:b9:ed:01:d4
size: 10Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=veth driverversion=1.0 duplex=full link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s
*-network:3
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 5
logical name: vethb0dac4b
serial: 06:df:05:ae:32:38
size: 10Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=veth driverversion=1.0 duplex=full link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s
*-network:4
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 6
logical name: vethc1684d8
serial: 16:5f:7e:55:d2:b4
size: 10Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=veth driverversion=1.0 duplex=full link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Gbit/s

Disabling WiFi fixes the issue but obviously I don't like such solution :)

What else can I do to:

1) Stop fan from constantly running when it's unneeded

2) Make sure CPU is used on full power

?

Need info re possible upgrades to Inspiron 15" 7000 (7567)

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I am in the market for a new laptop and really like the 7567 15" Inspiron now showing up at the Outlet. The models I like offer 7th Gen Intel I 7 Core ((7700HQ) plus 16 GB memory (1x16GB) and a 512 GB solid state hard drive.  Here are my questions; 1) if I need more hard drive space later is there room in the computer for an additional hard drive: 2) can I add an additional 6 or 16 GB memory module and finally 3) can I do any of this work myself or is the unit so well sealed that it isn't worth trying without special tools etc.

Thanks  

HM67 support for gen 3

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Hello,

 

so i've got Dell XPS 17 l702x (See the summary in a photo below)

As you can see, i have Intel Core i5 2430M @ 2.40GHz.

Here's the info of my motherboard:

ManufacturerDell Inc.
Model0K4H3G (CPU)
VersionFAB1
Chipset VendorIntel
Chipset ModelSandy Bridge
Chipset Revision09
Southbridge VendorIntel
Southbridge ModelHM67
Southbridge RevisionB3
BIOS
BrandDell Inc.
VersionA19
Date2012.09.07

 

Here's the thing, i would like to get i5-3210m cpu instead of i5-2430m(installed right now).
CPU's can be changed, but can my motherboard and BIOS support that Ivy bridge processor?

 

Dell Inspiron 15 5567 ACPI/Dell0767 Driver for Win 7

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Hi Dell,

I have been trying to install the driver for ACPI/Dell0767.

Google tells me it is Dell Touchpad but I have tried most dell and Synaptics drivers, none of them enabled multitouch of the touchpad.

The laptop was shipped with Win10 and touchpad was working fine. I have managed to find most of the drivers for Win 7 except for touchpad and AMD Radeon R7 M445.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

XPS 9360 Cursor snap back when moved a small distance on trackpad

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Im facing an issue that:

When I use my trackpad and move the cursor a bit (maybe a few mm) to point to something "quickly", and leave my finger.. the cursor will jump back to original place and recognize my move as a click instead.

On the other hand, if I move a bit but keep touching the trackpak, its fine...

I have try modifying the setting in the control panel but it didn't work.

Is this some sort of implicit setting that can be changed somewhere?

Dell Latitude Rugged 7202 touch not working - "No Pen or touch input is available for this display"

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I just buy Dell Latitude Rugged 7202 and touch is not working in either laptop mode or tablet mode, under Setting and PC info getting  "No Pen or touch input is available for this display" 

OS: WINDOWS 10

Please Help Me


Dell laptop not powering on.

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I put my laptop on the charger over night, I had it completely powered off, when I tried to power it up in the morning it did nothing. I went and bought a new charger but still did not power up. I really don't want to purchase a new one, I haven't had it very long (1 year). Any suggestions to what has happened and or how I can fix it?

Latitude E6410 wwan question

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Dear forum members

Please can anyone advise. Forgive me for my lack of knowledge 

I have bought a latitude E6410 second hand and upon inspecting it found the following :

1. There is a mini-pci WWAN slot, but no WWAN card supplied

2. There is a sim card slot under the battery.

I would like to use the laptop for mobile broadband: This would preferably be for modern speeds available which I understand are called 4g or LTE.

I would like to purchase a WWAN card to meet this requirement. However through google searches I found out that perhaps  not all WWAN mini-pci cards are compatible with the E6410. Some may be whitelisted out by the bios, and be uninstallable on this laptop

Please can anyone advise if this is the case , and if so whether there is information as to which WWAN cards ARE compatible

Any help in this would be much appreciated. With thanks, Ian

Dell E7470 & Samsung NVME drives : Missing Internal HDD Password option in the bios

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I have an E7470 & I added a Samsung 1TB 960 Pro M.2 NVME drive to it. It is set to RAID on & legacy bios bootup in bios (not set to UEFI). I was able to load Windows 10 & everything is working as normal.
However, I went to set the Bios HDD password under security, & the option is not there so I can enable it for FDE encryption. The actual option in the bios --> Security --> "Internal HDD-1 Password" is missing.
I have tried every option in the bios (setting admin/system password), changing to UEFI, AHCI, etc..
I am running the latest version of the bios. Running the latest firmware for the Samsung 960.
We have 170+ E7470 units. I have tested this out with 4 other units, with different bios versions. Same issue. I have also tested 4 other Samsung 960 Pro drives. Same issue. Missing option in the bios.
Any ideas?
Thx.

Inspiron 11-3147 2 in 1 cannot boot up continuous loop diagnosing Stop error

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This is frustrating to say the least...I have worked on this for days....

Did all the diagnostics....everything looks good but must be software corruption. Got Bios error initially

I went to Windows 10 and downloaded a copy and using the flashdrive uploaded a new copy of Windows 10 using USB Storage to boot....

Good news right?  Wrong.... one month later same error....

Is this a bad hard drive or what? the warranty is 1 year and over... what is the deal neal?

thank you,

Buzzy

A Raving Fan

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Service Request#:<Service request number removed><<#10575427-47124170-65681065#

On January 18th this year, the ministry in which I serve purchased a Dell 2 in 1 laptop.- service tag number <Service tag removed>, from amazon for my use. If this were not ministry (non-profit) funds having paid for this, I am afraid I would have on Friday of last week, thrown this laptop across the highway. As, it is, being ministry funds I cannot be so foolhardy with the donated funds of others. 
However, my time is also extremely valuable. What time does not get used in the service of others, goes to my family. So, when I have to keep doing the same thing over and over, or it appears that I'm taking a risk to do that, I have to take precautionary steps to ensure that I don't do that. When I have to keep repeating, thus wasting time either someone that I should be ministering to or my family is not being served in the manner they should be. So, now I appeal to you to help me not to have to do that with this Dell laptop. 
Because I use it for work it takes me from 8 to 12 hours to set it up, load software, files and let's not forget those windows updates. Now, I'm in a different industry so to speak than you are, so my time is not measured by profit and loss, but rather individuals I am able to minister to. Yet, I ask you how much is an hour worth to you? Not to mention, there are days in which I produce an enormous amount of written material. Now, how much is your work worth to you? 
So, purchased laptop, set it up and within two weeks the hard drive crashed on it. Now, if that were a day that I did a lot of writing on it, I would not have had the opportunity to back it up, before crashing. How are you feeling as you watch this laptop crash? So, I get on the phone and have to escalate the issue just to get my name listed as the principal owner. Laptop ships out and ships back by mid February. So, in effect within the first month, I got less than two weeks of use out of the machine. Upon, receiving the machine  I notice right at the top of the shipping label is Microsoft, then my name. So, even after escalating the issue of getting it registered properly I have to wonder if it is, just by looking at the shipping label.  
 
Friday,April 14th harddrive crashes again. Twice in under three months. So, now I look at more time setting up and this time I definitely lost work. So, now your in my shoes and looking at dealing with Dell again, harddrive crashed again, more setup work coming, material lost, are you a raving fan right now? So, I call Dell Customer Service and get transferred three times, sit on the phone for an hour, finally wind up with a nice chap named Jason who sends me an email detailing what he can and cannot do, while assuring me that this time they will get it back in 3 to 5 days and do a thorough inspection. 
This leaves the question, though, "Did you not do a thorough inspection the first time?" Not to mention, that what Jason says he can and cannot do does not nothing to resolve my fear now wondering if I get it back from Dell a second time and go through all the work of setting it up will it only crash again. 
Here, I stand now with a registered laptop that still has microsft on the account, whose hard drive has crashed for the second time. I have lost hours of work, material, spent hours trying to get account setup properly, an hour more on phone dealing with second crashed hard drive.
Now I ask you if your're me are are you just going to take Jason at his word? Will you want to take steps to ensure that this is just not a rinse and repeat? Will you want to ensure that if it comes back this time and you put in the work of setup that there is a way to make sure that in 2 or 3 months it will not crash again? 
Jason proceeded to tell me Dell's policies in his return reply, only problem I love the laptop and really do not desire to get rid of it. I just want to make sure that this does not keep happening, as I do not have the time to keep rinsing and repeating. So, can someone help me gain some assurance that this will not happen again.  
Again, thank you for taking the time to read this, to consider how you might create a raving fan and for what I am sure will be a reply.   
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