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Dell Inspiron 11 not tunring on

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Hello,

I purchased a Dell Inspiron 11 from Best Buy yesterday and I am having diffculty getting it to turn on. I was able to get it to turn on once yesterday, but it won't turn on today. I have tried holding the power button down for several seconds and also left the power adapter in overnight to fully charge the battery but it won't come on when I tried in the morning. Also the battery is built in and not removable.

here is the model:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/inspiron-11-6-touch-screen-laptop-4gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive/2843086.p?id=1219079575337&skuId=2843086&st=dell inspiron 11&cp=1&lp=1

Thank you

Vince


Dell Inspiron 15 3520 Intel HD Graphics Driver make computer crash ?

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Please help ! Whenever I install the driver to my graphics card, my computer restarts ! I've tried installing different versions of the driver, upgrading my other drivers, and still the same results ! Can someone help ? My warranty expired.

Inspiron N7010 New Charger Problem

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I have just recently replaced both the battery and charger on my computer. the battery seems to work as i can power up the computer and use it. when i try to use the new charger my computer acts up and doesnt charge. it will power the computer but it wont charge the battery. it is not the same charger as i got with the computer but i was assured that it could be used with my laptop. i bought this charger off amazon and since im not a wiz for model numbers and such ill just post amazon links to the charger i have now and the charger i had before.

New charger: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00763WKZW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Old Charger: http://www.amazon.com/Dell-19-5V-4-62A-Adapter-Numbers/dp/B008QHVU26/ref=sr_1_12?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1391116631&sr=1-12&keywords=N7010+CHarger

I dont know why it doesnt charge but im hoping i can get some answers.

Need help with keyboard solution

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Hi I have a dell inspirion 5521. I bought my laptop in the us and study in the uk. The computer is about a year old under warranty. The problem is randomly the keyboard will stop working. At times it does let me type in all capps and numbers give secondary symbols like @$ instead of the respective numbers. I bought a usb keyboard only to find it was not the keyboard that is the problem. Please help, I am located in the UK now and wondering if there is any way I can get help to fix this. This problem has been happening since the first weeks of use but it stopped happening for a while and then came back. Restarting the comp strangely fixes this. Any help would be very helpful. I have windows 8.1 now and the keyboard even goes into modes where if I hit the enter key it goes into narrator mode, and hitting different keys opens up different programs. Hitting the L key auto locks me so I need to type my password and get back in, but I often have to restart my computer because I can't type my pass in with the letters being different, like the numbers coming as secondary symbols.

Bluetooth Not Working.

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Hi,

 I have got dell inspiron N5050, bluetooth driver is installed but bluetooth dont search any device or not being searched by any device, what may be the problem?
another problem i that its running windows 7 64 bit, it starts and shutdown very slowly.

Thanks.

Vostro 3560 fan problem

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Hello,

I have a brand new Dell Vostro 3560.

CPU fan has been working constantly, even when the CPU is very low. The noise is awful! There is no software installed only new win7, latest DELL bios A13 and all latest drivers (chipset, video card, etc).

I have performed and CPU fan disgnostic (reboot->F12 ->Disgnostic) it is passed. CPU FAN speed is reported 4600RPM.

Please advise how to resolve this problem!

Thank you in advance!

M4700 "Unable to detect biometric fingerprint sensor unit."

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Hi all,


I installed the Dell ControlVault Driver  and upgraded the firmware on Windows 7 64, but the fingerprint reader device still missing.

The broadcom fingerprint management application (FMA) says: "Unable to detect biometric fingerprint sensor unit."

In Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Biometric Devices says: "Windows did not find any biometric devices on this computer."

I have checked the BIOS looking for options to enable the device, but there wasn't any.

Does anybody have a solution for this problem?

Windows disc shipped with vostro 3750 windows 7 pro

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Hello

Anyone know if the disc shipped with this lap top has both 32&64 bit os on it..?

I ask as I plan on upgrading to windows 8.1 and would like to use the w7pro on my older computer that's running xp..  but it needs to be 32 bit.. and I have yet to find out if the disc is both formats,  I upgrade the xp one to w7 and skip windows 8 altogether if I could find w7 to buy..  but all the stores and even Microsoft doesn't sell it anymore..


XPS 9530 overheating / stuttering while gaming? (an odd fix)

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Do you own a new XPS 9530?  Do you casually game?  Is it getting great Frame rate (FPS) at first and then dropping to 10 or less frames for no apparent reason?  Do you use a cooling fan pad with your new 9530?  

If you answered yes to a couple of these questions I think I have the solution for you.

If you go in to your advanced power options (inside the power plan options)  -  the apparent culprit is the "PCI Express Settings" 

Make sure "link state power management" under your current plan stays in "MAXIMUM POWER SAVINGS"...  Turning this to moderate, or off causes overheating while gaming.

ALSO - 

- The cooling design of the new 9530 series of XPS laptops forces air out of the bottom...  Cooling pads push air up on to the bottom of the laptop.

By using a cooling pad with this particular model of laptop is actually counter productive and actually causes the laptop to run hotter...  and once your machine gets in to the 85-90 degree Celsius range...  the GPU starts cutting power to prevent an overheat...  

Also, 3D gaming on your lap with this machine is a no no for the same reasons.  The laptop is cooling itself out the bottom.  Make sure it's on a clean, flat surface if you plan on using anything that uses your Nvidia card ...  This will allow the computer to cool itself (which it actually does a fine job of on it's own...)

If you're just watching movies or typing a paper (anything that just uses your integrated graphics) you're probably ok...  just keep this computer off of the bed, or any smothering surface...  remember.  That's where it's trying to send all that heat it's creating. 

Cheers.

Dell XPS 15 L502x 'plugged in, not charging' and orange/white flashing battery light? And FAILED HARD DRIVE!

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I've owned my Dell XPS 15 L502x for just over a year (thus, I am out of my warranty period) and recently it has stopped being able to charge. I am completely tethered to the AC power adapter to use it as I'm on 0% battery and have an inability to charge it.

As well as my inability to charge the laptop, I have noticed the following things:

  • The computer states that 'No battery is detected' when the battery is inserted
  • 4 orange and 1 white lights are flashing on the battery indicator above my charging port and above my keyboard
Furthermore, a couple of days ago my computer completely failed to boot and I discovered that my 500GB hard drive had crashed. Thankfully I managed to get all my stuff back, but I now need to get a replacement hard drive. I am currently using an old 150GB one that we had in the house.
What is wrong with my laptop, and what is it trying to tell me with these messages?
Is the problem with my hard drive linked to the problems I detailed above?
Help!!
Thank you

Latitude E5530 optical drive

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Hi, I bought a Latitude E5530 off the outlet but it didn't come with an optical drive and instead just has a blanking plate.  I'm trying to work out which drives are compatible with the E5530 so I can purchase a replacement (I'm in the UK), I have checked the Dell site but the price they're charging is a bit over the top (not far off half the cost of the laptop).  Dell only list the drive as being compatible with the E5430 and the E5530, is that correct or is compatibility any wider?  Is it a standard optical drive with a custom bezel and back plate?

Thanks,

John

XPS 12 screen doesnt rotate after upgrading to Windows 8.1+ plus other wobbles

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Hello All

I took the plunge and updated to windows 8.1 on my XPS 12 last night, the first problem was the right click options missing from the desktop.
this was remedied by updating the drivers for the cypress touchpad. then I discovered no matter what I did the centrino wireless N 6235 card would not enable. so I removed this from the device manager and re-detected in windows this is currently stable however the Dell Support site recommends updating it, so I have downloaded the driver but when I try to install it I am told this cannot be installed on my system?

more annoying than anything is the auto-rotate function on my flip screen isnt working any more....

Any ideas?

dell inspiron N5010 beeps 8 times

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dear , I m facing a problem with my laptop it beeps 8 times there is no light on the screen earlier the screen was freezing and laptop restarts gives massage display driver stop functioning , I had taken this laptop to the Dell Service Centre I was told that Laptop board is short and need to change. is it possible that laptop motherboard is short, can any one reply please. thank you very much kind regards Richards

XPS 12 overheating when left charging over night

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Hi every one. I recently purchased an XPS 12 for my daughter for school. When you leave it over night to charge it overheats. It won't turn on and the fan is constantly running. The actual body of the laptop is VERY warm to touch. After about 2 hours of the fan running the fans stop running and when you try to turn it on the message on the screen says the battery is critically low. Once pluged back in, after a minute or 2 it works perfectly but showing on charge. Any one got any ideas?

I have called Dell Australia and a tech is going to come out and have a look next week.

XPS 11 screen autorotate doesn't work after Windows 8.1 upgrade

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Hi my new XPS 11 screen autorotate function doesn't work since the machine auto-updated last week to windows 8.1

I've read a similar thread about the XPS 12 which has been running since last year. I am concerned Dell don't seem to know what to do. I am not going to accept anything less than complete resolution of this problem as I spent 1400 euro and it is less than three weeks old...

Help please!


Cannot Upgrade My SSD Firmware!

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Hello! I'm an Alienware 17 owner and my model has a LMT 64M6 SSD which is out of date. I have downloaded the appropriate driver: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/driverdetails?driverid=4YX4D but when I run the update it says no matched drivers found! No matter if I run it in compatibility mode or not, it keeps giving me the same pop-up box: No matched drivers found! This is extraordinarily frustrating as I've had 3 hardrive failures so far and I've only had my Alienware for 5 months now! The importance of this driver is also ranked as urgent by dell. What the heck is going on here and why isn't this update working.

Inspiron 11 3000 Series (3137) 8gb RAM?

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I'm looking to upgrade the ram on the newly released inspiron 11 3137. The laptop has one dimm slot that is also user accessible. It is currently only shipping with 2gb of ram. I realize the manual states it can support up to 4gb of ram, but has anyone tried adding a single 8gb stick?


It comes with win8 64 bit, and packs a recently released 4th gen haswell celeron. I'm thinking it may support an 8gb stick, but don't want to order without confirmation that someone has gotten it to work.

Docking / Port Replicators

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Hi All,

Since there aren't much in the way of specs or other differentiating information from Dell on the Products page....

Anyone know the difference between the E-Plus Port Replicators?

Dell P/N:
7G37R, XGWJG, and the CP103 

Have some E5xx0 Lats to dock. Not had much luck with these in the past 5 yrs or so....


Thanks,
Jeff

Hard disk drive not found inspiron 35520

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My laptop has an error message hard disk drive not found try to reseat hard drive. I do not know if the laptop is under warranty still. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Inspiron 3137 freezes up with glitchy screen

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Laptop connected to AC, with freshly installed W8.1 with latest drivers available on the site, latest BIOS too. Inside the changes are the 4GB memory module (was thinking it might be that tested it with memtest86 - ran for 2+ hours with no problems), and A-DATA SP900 SSD.

Then I thought it might be GPU or overheating (even though I have not ruled that out completely, since I was more or less away from it when it happened couple times) but it ran Unigine Valley for two and a half hours with no issues and 68*C according to GPU-Z.

[Update] Ran OCCTPT in PSU testing mode (both GPU and CPU usage), temps are kept strictly under 70*C, power under 15W (since TDP is 15) and clocks are dropped to about 1.22GHZ on cpu and 850mhz on GPU. So I cant imagine that it can overheat with that sort of control. Something else probably can, but all the temps HW Monitor can actually check are good.

It's not the LCD cable, since position does not matter and reboot (4 sec turn off/on) fixes it. Though sometimes after reboot wi-fi does not work and I need to go to network connections and turn it off and on there for it to work. So might be somewhat power saving related. Since the first time it happened it was idling in chrome with no activity on wifi, and wifi was not working after that reboot. But next time it happened when I was making system backup with built in W8 utility to a NAS via Wi-Fi. And Wi-Fi worked after that.

Windows system event log has pretty much nothing of interest in it before reboot, stuff like system restore points do not need to be updated e.t.c.

So to sum it up, last 3 times it happened : Chrome was opened with a blank page and I was away from it, next time I was reading stuff from a website and it just did that, and the last time system was creating a restore image of the hdd and I was away from it.

Here's how it looks in static : http://imgur.com/h52IxaF and here's a video of it in action : 

(Please visit the site to view this video)

You can sort of see some parts of the desktop through that and some regions seem to look just like random garbage.

Apart from drivers and DX/VC++ there are Nod 32 antivirus v7 installed, Chrome, and Classic Shell start menu.

On the agenda have gpu-z and coretemp/speefan run in background with logging enabled to check for temps when it happens, and well reinstall W8.1 if everything else fails.

It would be awesome if someone can point me to the root of the issue or at least where to dig for it (software/hardware e.t.c.).

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