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Dell Latitude E6520 won't boot.....PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable and PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. No boot device found. Press any key to reboot the machine.

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New to this forum, sadly my laptop won't boot....I'm hoping I can get some insight here.

I get the black screen with the following messages:

"PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

No boot device found. Press any key to reboot the machine."

I can get into BIOS and run diagnostics followed by the prompt: "Success, all tests pass.".....but system won't boot.

I searched and searched the internet and tried various things but no change.

I removed and reinstalled the hard drive twice, no change.

I made sure the HDD is first to boot order in BIOS...no change.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would certainly appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

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http://i.imgur.com/d6kQG29.jpg


Inspiron 15 5000 (5568) Pen???

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I was wondering if there is a pen out there that I could use that would be pretty accurate with my touch screen so that I can edit photos with better precision. Please help! Thanks in advance!

Precision M6600 Doesn't turn on

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I was working on my M6600 when suddenly there was a single flicker of the screen and the laptop crashed. There was no question of overheating because the only application running was Opera with only one tab open. When I tried to restart the laptop nothing happened. I mean really nothing. No indicator lights, no fan, nothing on the screen. What I've tried so far-

1. Try to run it on power adapter alone. The adapter is OK. The adapter indicator is glowing and on the power jack pins of the laptop the voltage reading is 19v.

2. Tried to run it on a fully charged battery alone.

3. Took out the adapter and the battery, kept the power button pressed for a minute and then tried to turn the laptop on on AC power. Repeated the procedure for battery power.

4. The ram modules are good and worked perfectly in another system. However, tried other ram modules just to be sure.

5. Cleared the cmos by taking out the button cell and leaving it out for 10 minutes.

This laptop has always been rock solid except that about two days before the fatal crash it had crashed when I was away from the laptop. The crash must have been instantaneous because there was nothing in the event log.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Bluetooth woes on Alienware 15 R3 2017

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I've had it with this laptop. 

Every 3-5 days my bluetooth stops working and device manager shows the device as unrecognized. Updating or rescanning has no effect. Re-booting has no effect. In Bluetooth settings the option to turn on/off bluetooth disappears. My laptop stays closed to the side of my desk in a hard to reach place so then I can't use it at all.

The only remedy so far has been (1) reflashing the bios, or (2) going into the bios and re-saving it. (Mostly (2) doesn't work and I have to do (1).

Either way, my work is interrupted and I have to re-open all my apps and re-set everything up.

I guess I have to send it back, and then I don't have a laptop to ship my current project at work.

Tech support just gets me to reflash the bios.

Is there any other solution????? Anyone else seeing this issue?

Very frustrating.

Precision M4700 Heatsink

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Hello 

I have DELL precision m4700 laptop, and i have question. 

My laptop have orginaly amd GPU and I7 3520 proccesor, I have with GPU and CPU 

for CPU: 015VPN Heatsink with one heat-pipe

for GPU: AMD ATOME0060VL Heatsink

When i upgrade CPU to I7 3840QM and GPU for k2100M 

Should I have to replace CPU heatsink for 080D8V and GPU heatsink for Nvidia Heatsink?

Precision M4700 Heatsink

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Hello 

I have DELL precision m4700 laptop, and i have question. 

My laptop have orginaly amd GPU and I7 3520 proccesor, I have with GPU and CPU 

for CPU: 015VPN Heatsink with one heat-pipe

for GPU: AMD ATOME0060VL Heatsink

When i upgrade CPU to I7 3840QM and GPU for k2100M 

Should I have to replace CPU heatsink for 080D8V and GPU heatsink for Nvidia Heatsink?

Older Dell laptop, have lost my administrative password for a Dell inspiring 1545, can anyone help me??

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Inspiron N7010 with Bios A11

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I am trying to change some settings in my BIOS. It will not let me change things that are in blue. Just the ones that are in black. I have changed the BIOS/CMOS on all of my previous computers. I am hoping I am just not able see the way that Dell does it. My BIOS is A11


Tried to reinstall windows now getting 'No Bootable devices' error

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I was infected with the svcvmx Trojan and decided I was going to reinstall Windows to get rid of the virus. I am not sure if I did something to cause this error but I really need answers. Will I have to buy a new computer? I'm not sure of what to do. When I start for maybe 1-2 seconds I get the Dell logo and then a black screen that says No Bootable Devices Found and under Press F1 for retry boot, F2 for setup utility which and F5 to run onboard diagnostics which works for a second and then gives me a rainbow screen. Please help!

BlueTooth warning event

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BTHUSB event ID 34

"The local adapter does not support an important Low Energy controller state to support peripheral mode..."

This pops up as a warning in Event Viewer every time the 3148 laptop is booted or awakened from sleep.

This fresh install included basic BlueTooth drivers, and that feature works reasonably well.

However, install of a Dell tech's recommended http://dell.to/2uZNhBh 1708 BT package, while it added a BT control panel, degraded audio.  The effect was loosely similar to a flanging - watery and phase distorted.  The update was uninstalled.

Disabling various BT items in Device Manager doesn't banish the warning - and usually kills communication.  When 1708 drivers were removed, BT speaker audio returned to normal.

As a further test, "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" has been disabled where available under Device Manager performance tabs for Bluetooth entries - to no effect.

BT works. and it's understood that the warning is benign.  And it's seen on other Dell laptops. Can it be eliminated?

Beeping at startup

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My computer beeps 8 times when start computer and does not come on unless I press ctrl alt del power. The chat says it is a LCD issue. How do I fix it?

Tried to reinstall Windows and now get 'No Bootable devices found'' error.

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I was infected with the svcvmx Trojan and decided I was going to reinstall Windows to get rid of the virus. I am not sure if I did something to cause this error but I really need answers. Will I have to buy a new computer? I'm not sure of what to do. When I start for maybe 1-2 seconds I get the Dell logo and then a black screen that says No Bootable Devices Found and under Press F1 for retry boot, F2 for setup utility which and F5 to run onboard diagnostics which works for a second and then gives me a rainbow screen. I have a Inspiron 5558 Laptop. Please help! By the way I am not so sure how I reply to a comment so sorry about that.

Dell 5548 startup issue

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Hello, I'm using dell inspiron 5548 laptop since last 2 years.today I'm watching movie on it,after 20 min windows shows error saying that any hardware or software failure and system restart, bt after shut down laptop not getting start, after pressing power on button it's start for only 3-4 seconds and then power off,(lED light working, fan also working in this time period of 4-5 sec),I had tried removing battery, pressing 20sec power button after removing battery bt it's not working, so now what can I do? Is it hardware issue? Then which hardware may affected,which parts I have to change???

Can the Inspiron 17-1779 work with the Wacom Bamboo Ink?

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The pen connects to the laptop but there's no options to change settings for it and the pen settings do not appear under Pen & Windows Ink

i reinstalled windows. now only 1 usb port works

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i reinstalled windows. now only 1 usb port works. the port where I had the bootable flash drive with windows installed on it the only usb port that works.

I cannot find the correct driver on the dell site. I installed this driver: R305170.

but still only 1 port works.

also I tried to install the Dell System Detect and I got a message saying:

"cannot continue. the application is improperly formatted. contact the application vendor for assistance"

when I click "details" I get this:

PLATFORM VERSION INFO
 Windows    : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT)
 Common Language Runtime  : 2.0.50727.8669
 System.Deployment.dll   : 2.0.50727.5493 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
 mscorwks.dll    : 2.0.50727.8669 (QFE.050727-8600)
 dfdll.dll    : 2.0.50727.5493 (Win7SP1GDR.050727-5400)
 dfshim.dll    : 4.0.41210.0 (Main.041210-0000)

SOURCES
 Deployment url   : downloads.dell.com/.../DellSystemDetectLauncher.Application

ERROR SUMMARY
 Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
 * Activation of downloads.dell.com/.../DellSystemDetectLauncher.Application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
  + Exception reading manifest from downloads.dell.com/.../DellSystemDetectLauncher.Application: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.
  + Manifest XML signature is not valid.
  + SignatureDescription could not be created for the signature algorithm supplied.

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
 No transaction error was detected.

WARNINGS
 There were no warnings during this operation.

OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
 * [8/13/2017 4:13:10 PM] : Activation of downloads.dell.com/.../DellSystemDetectLauncher.Application has started.

ERROR DETAILS
 Following errors were detected during this operation.
 * [8/13/2017 4:13:10 PM] System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestParse)
  - Exception reading manifest from downloads.dell.com/.../DellSystemDetectLauncher.Application: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.
  - Source: System.Deployment
  - Stack trace:
   at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
   at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
   at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
   at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
   at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
  --- Inner Exception ---
  System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (SignatureValidation)
  - Manifest XML signature is not valid.
  - Source: System.Deployment
  - Stack trace:
   at System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSignature(Stream s)
   at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
  --- Inner Exception ---
  System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException
  - SignatureDescription could not be created for the signature algorithm supplied.
  - Source: System.Security
  - Stack trace:
   at System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.SignedXml.CheckSignedInfo(AsymmetricAlgorithm key)
   at System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.SignedXml.CheckSignatureReturningKey(AsymmetricAlgorithm& signingKey)
   at System.Deployment.Internal.CodeSigning.SignedCmiManifest.Verify(CmiManifestVerifyFlags verifyFlags)
   at System.Deployment.Application.Manifest.AssemblyManifest.ValidateSignature(Stream s)

COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
 No transaction information is available.


flickering Laptop Screen, Latitude E6440

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I purchased Latitude E6440 2 years ago.  I used it for bookkeeping of a small non-profit organization I volunteer.  I does bookkeeping about once a month for two hours.  My laptop usage is less than 100 hours since I had it.  Now I experience the flickering laptop screen issue.  Is this hardware issue common for this model?  I had many Dell laptops at work.  Never had any hardware issues.

 

Flickering Laptop Screen

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Hi, I just posted a question a few minutes ago.  It should be Inspiron 5749 with this screen issue.  Latitude E6440 is my work computer, with no issue.  

My laptop freezes and the only way to do anything is by hitting the manual power button. Help!

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My laptop did this twice to me today. It froze whilst I was going about my business, once watching a video and the other time reading a pdf article for my school assignment.

When it freezes, everything is unresponsive. I cannot move my cursor via mouse or trackpad, and keyboard shortcuts do not work (like to open task manager or simply ctrl+alt+delete). It also makes an ear-shattering buzzing sound as it freezes when on a video.

The only way I can do anything is hitting the power button. It then takes me to a blue Recovery screen, where nothing helps me. I restart my PC and it is significantly slower this way than when it normally starts up.

I have a Dell Inspiron 13-5368, and I've already checked to make sure Windows 10 is up to date. So I'm not sure why there should be such a problem. My antivirus has also not caught anything.

By the way the computer reacts, I'm not sure if there's maybe an issue with a random driver? Or something wrong with my hardware? 

Also, sorry if I'm posting in the wrong part of the forum!

Dell vostro 1015

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Hello i would like to know to what processor nd maximum ram and SDD i can upgrade my laptop...thanks

Precision 7520 - Adding 1x 8GB DDR4 Ram

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HI,

I want to add 8GB more RAM to my laptop (I have 1 x 8 GB installed).

I managed to open the laptop properly, but I am not 100% sure in which of the two slots (under the keyboard) I should put the RAM module - since both don't seem to work - one slot it boots up but the new RAM is not shown, in the other slot it doesn't boot up.

Additional question: How can I reach the other two slots that are on the backside? Do I have to remove the entire back cover (e.g. if I want to install 32 GB altogether in the future).

Thanks

Oliver

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