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The rubber that covered my Dell 14z screen burns & coming off

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The black rubber that covered my Dell 14z screen burns and coming off. Does it normal ? Coz whenever my laptop get heat up, the rubber arround my screen burns :(

Sorry for my bad english. Pls help me.


Latitude E7270 not working in dock

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Hello, I received a brand new laptop at work and tried using it on the "E-port Plus II" dock, that we have. My colleagues have no troubles using the dock with other Dell models but for some reason my laptop outright refuses to cooperate with it. 

I have tried closing the lid and booting up on the dock to no avail. The laptop does not charge in the dock and won't connect to any USB devices or monitors attached to the dock. Weirdly the power button on the dock does wake and put the computer to sleep but that's about it. 

I also tried updating the BIOS to the latest version and that didn't help.

I would greatly appreciate any other suggestions and solutions.

Dropped my laptop. Help with backlight bleeding and potential hardware issues!

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Yesterday I dropped my month old Inspiron laptop from approx. 1 meter height to a concrete surface while it was turned on. So far, miraculously, no major problems are showing except that the screen has some yellow tinting on the upper right corner. I searched about it and apparently it now suffers from backlight bleeding due to the damage I'd caused. Can this be repaired or does the screen needs to be replaced? No cracks nor scratches, just the yellow tint.

Also, what about the hard drive? I don't hear any scratching or clicking sound as described in forums I visited. I've just noticed that the Dell logo takes a little longer to pop when I turn the laptop on but overall the laptop works fine. Applications respond fast like the usual. 

Any advice on these?

Dell Inspiron 3542 not powering on

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On pressing the power button, the keyboard and Power LED lights blink once but laptop does not boot. Keeping the power button pressed for a few seconds makes these lights blink continuously but laptop does not switch on. Power LED light does not glow when AC adapter is connected and switched on. Have removed the battery/adapter, pressed the power button for 60-sec. Tried Fn+Power button. Nothing seems to work. Tried another Dell adapter, without any success. Is it a power-related failure?

Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming - HDD compatibility

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Hi all,

I am planning on purchasing the 15" 7000 laptop shown below:

www.dell.com/.../pd

I would like to add an additional HDD, but don't want to get one that wouldn't fit! I ideally want a relatively high capacity, at least 2TB. However, anything above that would be better. Does anyone have any suggestions of a compataible HDD?

Thanks.

dell inspiron 3542 keyboard and mouse problem

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I am having a serious problem on my dell inspiron 3542. whenever i click refresh on the desktop it refreshes but the top left icon gets clicked always. and when i hover the mouse cursor over the icons it immediately gives the information about it even though when normal it takes some time to give information. Also, whenever i type number 8 from the numpad the mouse cursor shifts automatically to extreme left of that sentence or word. also when i scroll from top to bottom, it won't let me scroll down.

I even reset the laptop but i kept the personal files and installed windows again. But it didn't solve the problem.

Please help me fast. I am experiencing this problem from the past 4 days. I am running Windows 10 Pro build 1703 64bit with all latest updates and 4GB ram core i5 4210u.

I am using the Synaptics touchpad with the latest drivers.

Dell M5510 battery breaking my trackpad and looks like its ready to explode (4gvgh battery)

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Hi,


I have a Dell M5510 precision laptop for business.  Around January 2017, 7 months after owning this laptop the track pad started to come loose. At first I didnt know why, it was very minor, then each month it started to come off more and more. Around 2-3 months ago I stopped being able to use some of the functionality of the trackpad. I finally took the laptop apart to find out the battery had expanded and was causing this issue.  I purchased a M5510 with every upgrade (xeon, 4k, larger battery etc) and figured I would not have any issues as I use this for work. 

Has anyone else had similar issues on the M5510 Precision series?

It looks like the battery is very swollen in multiple cells and the trackpad looks like its about to blow right off the laptop.  

I'm also not sure how safe it is to use this laptop for business travel now that it looks like the cells are expanding and lithium ion explodes.

Touchpad Driver is not working

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First of all Unhappilly I had to format my original windows that came from DELL. Then I installed the windows 10 but it installed the microsoft mouse driver ps/2. I Already tried to install the Dell driver synaptic for my inspiron 5547 that I downloaded on Dell's website. I had tried to unzip the executable and put it manually (updating the driver) but it is not working at all.

Could Someone help me with this ???

Windows 10 Home, OS 32 bits, processor based on x64.

Sorry About my English mistakes, I am Brazilian and trying  to solve my touchpad issue.

Best regards.


BIOS update A07: do I really need this?

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I have an Inspiron 5548 with original BIOS version A03.

Today I received notification (screenshot below) from the Dell Update app that a BIOS update needs to be installed. The Dell Update app does not provide details of the BIOS update, but on Dell's site I see that the latest BIOS version for my system is A07, released 9/30/2016.

Questions:

1) How will this update improve my PC?
2) If it's important, why was I not notified 7 months ago?

Thanks

Help to diagnose video issue with latitude E6430

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I have the following symptom: When i close the lid the screen turns off and does not come back on. In power options, what to do when the lid is closed is set to DO NOTHING. Video continues to work thru the HDMI port if I have something connected to that. Also, I happened to have an HDMI display emulator laying around and have discovered that when i have this plugged in the problem does not occur.

Also, I have tried several clean OS installs, both windows and Linux, and the problem continues to happen with all of them. So it's pretty clear it is hardware-related.

TIA!

Adding Ram Question? Dell Inspiron 14 - N4050

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 Hey

I've got an old dell laptop that a friend gave me to fill in while I save for a new macbook, pro to replace the one that I had stolen.

It's mostly been OK, though lacking Ram, at only 4gb. I'd like to have 8.

So, regarding matching or replacing the existing Ram, what would be better/cheaper, as it's only a temp solution?

 - Add another 4gb module

 - Or, replace the existing with an 8gb module

I've attached a photo of what's in there - don't know why it rotated!

Also, if I was to add an extra 4, how do I match?

The speed is 1333Mhz, its DDR3 and form factor SODIMM. Not sure about the other numbers on the sticker. 

Thanks in advance for your help!

M

Inspiron 5000 stops processing and ask if I want to restart

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Hi,

My Dell Inspiron 5000 with Windows 10 stops processing and shows a screen to restart or troubleshoot.

I troubleshoot and restore to a point in time. It happened a few times in the last 2 weeks.

Could you please help me understanding a possible root cause for such behavior?

Laura

Manufacturing Defect in Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 9365

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Hi

Recently we have bought XPS 13 2-in-1 (XPS 9365) with Qhd Touch display, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD with 4 years of Premium Support and 4 years of Accidental Damage warranty.

after placing order it took 30 days to delivered by Dell, and sadly the product was having manufacturing defects. The system was not properly aligned and screen was flickering automatically, after connecting with dell Tech Support and so many troubleshoot and mails, you cant imagine such a system with unboxing, after that they moved me to Whole Unit replacement Team, But again WUR dont have the the same system which i have ordered. I have ordered the system with 16Gb ram and 512Gb SSD, but WUR team is offering me lower version of system i.e. with 8GB ram and 256 GB ssd for the price i have paid. also they are not ready to refund my amount. So I am moving to consumer court for the same.

This is happened with me when i bought highest possible tech specification system with 4 years of Premium Support and Accidental Warranty by paying 174000 INR. Its my suggestion please don't buy Dell laptop.

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 Manufacturing Defect and Dell Is Unable to replace it.

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Hi

Recently we have bought XPS 13 2-in-1 (XPS 9365) with Qhd Touch display, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD with 4 years of Premium Support and 4 years of Accidental Damage warranty.

after placing order it took 30 days to delivered by Dell, and sadly the product was having manufacturing defects. The system was not properly aligned and screen was flickering automatically, after connecting with dell Tech Support and so many troubleshoot and mails, you cant imagine such a system with unboxing, after that they moved me to Whole Unit replacement Team, But again WUR dont have the the same system which i have ordered. I have ordered the system with 16Gb ram and 512Gb SSD, but WUR team is offering me lower version of system i.e. with 8GB ram and 256 GB ssd for the price i have paid. also they are not ready to refund my amount. So I am moving to consumer court for the same.

This is happened with me when i bought highest possible tech specification system with 4 years of Premium Support and Accidental Warranty by paying 174000 INR. Its my suggestion please don't buy Dell laptop. 

problem of my dell laptop

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my dell vostro 1450 laptop is not starting.its showing a power adapter problem.I was using another adapter.

now when I start it its showing your pc ran into a problem.we are collecting some information,your pc will restart.showing it my pc restarts and repeatedlly its happening.what shoul I do? I have many important informations in my pc which I need to have very quickly.


Need to press Middle mouse button to make mouse work

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Hi, I am using the Dell Inspiron 26 7000 series.

I"ve recently encountered a very strange bug. Whenever I turn on my computer, whether from hibernation, shutdown my mouse doesn't work properly.

What happens is this, I'll go to open anything (Firefox, word, excel etc) and suddenly my mouse cursor would jump to another part of the screen. And suddenly, except for that one program that I have opened, i can no longer left/right click anywhere else. sometimes while moving, I would even end up dragging my menu bar and dock it somewhere else on the screen.

I thought it was the mouse, but I bought a brand new out of the box and that one does it too. i uninstalled the trackpad driver, and unplugged the mouse and use the trackpad and it still does it.

I cannot even use the trackpad, because of this issue because it won't recognize my trying to middle click. I can post a video of it later if you like to show yall what's going on.

My Warrenty is almost up and I want to see *** is going on. ty

Inspiron 3537, lost my AC adapter?

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Few days back, I have lost my dell charger for my Inspiron 3537. I want to know my charger specifications so that I can buy a new one. Could you please help me in this case?

Thank you.

Dell Inspiron n5040 fan

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I have a dell Inspiron n5040 laptop and the fan is not working and I am getting an error when doing the diagnosis which is

Error code 2000-0511

Validation 25050

So i did a bios update but still getting the same error.

Please advice me what to do

Thanks

dell inspiron 15 3521 notebook touch pad heating and cooling fan is not correctly work

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Dell inspiron 15 3521 notebook touch pad heating and Cooling fan is not working Correctly

Cleaned Cooling fan

Changed  BIOS (currently A14)

Passed Diagnostics test

the touch pad become very hot. I also cleaned cooling fan and BIOS change. But still I have with this problem. now I used a third party software to control cooling fan as temporary solution. please let me Know what I should do? Give me the technical details about this issue. Thank you.

Dell update causing internet slowdown?

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I have an issue where I install an update and shortly after it caused my wireless to run really slowly (down from 5 mb/s to 200 kb/s). I talked to the internet company and determined that it was not them. I've run multiple virus scans and that's not it either.

I've been on a few forums and no one can really figure it out, so I reformatted my computer. After that it worked great until prompted for an update. After that was installed, it did the same thing. I ended up reformatting it again and, again, it worked great for a few days until I was prompted to make an install when shutting down. Now, it does the same thing again.

When you get online, it works great for a few minutes and then wireless goes down to nothing again.

I've got an Inspiron 5000 series running on Windows 10. It's a little over a year old.

Any suggestions?

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