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Cracked screen

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i just recently cracked my inspiron touch screen and  it still has a little over a week left of warranty and I wanna know if it  possible to get a replacement screen


MY DELL INSPIRON 15R 5537 HANGS

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Every day on 12:00 am my laptop momentarily hangs.I have seen in TASK MANAGER that for some seconds my CPU usage % surges.Can anyone help???????

XPS 13 9343 early 2015 Random Shutdowns

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Besides the aforementioned whirring fan noise that is extraordinary, has anyone else received a model that shuts down randomly and has difficultly restarting.  I've spent my entire first week with Tech support just trying to get the computer to work.  Very frustrating at any price.  Obscene at this one.

Inspiron 510m keyboard driver query

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The U.K.-layout keyboard on my Inspiron 510m recently died and I found a U.S.-layout keyboard to replace it. Some keytops are wrongly labelled and I can live with that, but there is no way I can key a backslash or a doublebar.  On the U.K. keyboard that key is between the Z key and the Shift key but there is no key on the U.S. keyboard.  It looks as if the only solution is to reconfigure the 510m to use the U.S. layout.

How do I do that? I don't see anything about keyboard setup in the BIOS.  Do I need to swap a driver file?

Or does anyone know where I can get a replacement U.K. keyboard?

Thanks

Peter M

WIFI

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I had a hard drive go bad and replaced it. I loaded the WIndows 7 OS and used the red resource disk to load drivers. Also went to dell and downloaded updates for drivers. I cannot get the wifi to work now. I can access the internet while hard wired but not through wifi. Does anyone have any suggestions.

My Laptop is a Trouble Maker

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Hello,

I live in China and I bought M531R-5535 in a big shopping mall kind of place just reserved for electronic market.

I choose this laptop because I never heard someone complained about Dell and configuration seemed good enough to me.

It says it has dual graphic cards and CPU is A8. Seller person insisted it has 8 CPUs.

They said they will install English version of Windows which I later figured out was a fake and win 7.

And if you want to update hardware you should have win 8.

At least Chinese representatives helped me by sending me a new Window but it was Chinese.

I tried to learn how to use it and didn't make a lot of complaints until I installed a game to my laptop.

Basically it was unavailable to play something.

When I go to Turkey I gave it to Turkish maintenance.

They said heat sink, fan and hard disk are not working correctly and installed Turkish Windows.

Also they informed me my laptop is a "demo"

Something just for show, which shouldn't sold to me.

When I returned to China I go there with my friend and informed them about what Turkish maintenance said. I even informed them they should do deep maintenance search so they can see the problems and I asked them not to delete my hard drive.

One week later they called me and said they fixed problems so I go there to take it.

I asked what they have done and learned they fixed all the parts except hard-disk because they didn't do the deep scan and take proper notes.

Also they erased all my data for what? Fun?

I know they could easily back it up. And there is no reason to format it.

I insisted them to solve my hard-disk problem and they accepted after 5 minutes.

Next time I came they said my hard disk is FAKE.

Either I tricked by them or tricked by the person who sold it to me.

Actually since they sold a demo for two times the price I consider myself more than tricked.

I accepted the situation and put my laptop to its bag and sensed some metallic parts moving.

I told them and they opened and took out that piece.

Really sloopy.

Problem is I go to a maintanence place in my country once.

People were jerks. They were formating just for jun, looking at your stuff and copying them, playing with your computer and also doing some harm to your hardware.

So I am really wondering what happened there.


Some time passed I bought Call of Duty.

That laptop is new. So do Call of Duty.

It couldn't run it. I checked system requrements and accepted that I have been tricked.

Yesterday I tried to run a 3 years old game and there were lag even with the lowest settings.

So I am confused. And pissed.

I really wonder who is going to take responsibility?

I have been suffering for one year, there is almost no one is trying to help.

I am open to suggestions?

Money refund, okey?

Let's give a new one? Not the same model please. When I see it i really fell dump because they took twice the price.

I am even willing to pay a bit for a better one.

Please suggestions.


Cihan Serter

Drivers for INSPIRON 5521

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Hi,


I am not getting the chipset and USB 3.0 drivers for INSPIRON 5521 on Dell Support Website. Kindly help.

My System USB 3.0 ports not working however USB 2.0 ports are working ...

Regards

Ashmeet Singh

How to remove BIOS master password?

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Hello,

I noticed that some Dell laptops (in my case Inspiron 7520) have a dirty secret "feature" in their BIOS to allow a password recovery. Basically as I understand it, the procedure goes like this: you contact Dell technical support, you give them your service code and after verifying you they give you a special "master password" that bypasses the existing password and unlocks your BIOS.

Very nice and all except that this is a complete security disaster. What purpose does the original BIOS password protection even serve, if the security can be easily bypassed like this by anyone who knows the master password that cannot be changed? So as a result I am looking for a way to disable and destroy the master password for my laptop so that it can no longer be unlocked this way.


What's the correct way to do this? Is there a bios update that disables this master password backdoor? I'm definitely hoping this vulnerability can be patched somehow.

Thanks


Dell Inspiron 1545 blank screen

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hello,,i have a 3 year old laptop(inspiron 1545) and now for the last 3 days it wont boot...when i power it on,,,it starts ,,fan spining,hdd spinig but no Dell boot logo..\

if i press the D button ,red green blue white colors appear and then white forever until i shut it down,

when i press the power button while its on,it shuts down immediately,,if i press the FN button and then the power button it starts beeping 7 times and it repeats,,

removed the battery and the AC plug,,,pressed the power button for 5 min,,pluged in the AC plug and nothing again,,,,,...

I think all of this started 4 weeks ago,cuz while i was playing,,i think it overheated and shut down,,it did this many times untill it would not boot up(3 days ago).

its out of warranty...so if its a problem with the GPU i can reball it(My Friend can)..

Find Quickset vostro 5480

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i can't find Quickset for my vostro 5480, if you find it please give me download link. Tks

Dell Inspiron 11z Touch - touchpad problem

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Hello,
I just bought Dell Inspiron 11z Touch and it seems to be quite good pc, but my problem is with touchpad. I have synaptics and sometimes it seems like there is no connection between synaptics driver and touchpad driver, because touchpad lose every setting from synaptics and act just like touchpad withou synaptics. I tried lot of things, reinstalling driver and so on, but nothing helped. There are only two solutions, restarting computer or reinstalling synaptics and it will work for some time and after that I have to reinstall it again, it's quite annoying.

(I can use touchpad without synaptics, but I would like to use scrolling and I dont want "tap to click", and the sensitivity is also awful without synaptics)

Sorry for bad english

Any help? 
Thanks!

Dell Inspiron 7537 lacking of Driver and Utility Software?

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Hi everyone,

I just bought Dell 7537 for a week and found lots of problems:

1. The Dell Extended Battery Life Utility, Dell QuickSet could not be found. (These were available for earlier model).

I can not disable Display Adaptive Brightness on this computer (tried turn them off in Power Option/ Advanced setting, and in Intel Graphic Control Panel but no help) and this is getting really annoying.

The WIFI function key is not working, I believe this is because of the QuickSet Utility is not available for this model (yet?).

Keyboard back light does not turn off automatically after not touching touchpad or keyboard for some time. (My Dell 3450's back light works perfectly, I bought it 3 years ago).

2. The HDD sometimes make scrubbing sound, just like the sound which a CD makes when inserted into Optical Drive, I'm not sure if it's usual?

3. My 7537 is of HD display type, and it's feel rather pale, color reproduction is poor. I know I can not expect much form this model, but do you have any kind of software that can improve this a bit, like Dell True Color?


Thank you for reading this and I'm looking forward to your answers. It would be great if any Dell's staff walks by and provide some feedback.

P.S: English is not my native language, sorry if my grammar errors bother you :P

COM port does not appear in Device Manager. Please support.

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I need COM port. I have Windows 7 and Dell laptop.

I can not see COM port in Device Manager.

Thanks. I

Inspiron 15 3521 HDMI

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I cannot connect to my Polaroid TV through my HDMI cable. My computer will connect with any other TV but mine. It has before and it just stopped. I have plugged a Playstation into the TV and it works as well. Is there a setting on the computer or somewhere I should go in the system to make this work? When the two are connected both screens are black if im in second screen only, but if I am in duplicate, extend, or first screen I can see my screen.

laptop update

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hey just bought an inspiron 7537 and i wanted its drives to be updated to the latest ones but when i downloaded dell update it told me that its all updated and when i see it from the dell website it says there are updates available how do i know if there is or there isn't for sure ?? and thanks


D630 Latitude - ASSET Boot Screen - HELP NEEDED!

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Hi Everyone,

I recently bought a D630 for repairs, managed to get it working but I have an issue, as soon as I turn the laptop on I am greeted with a message from the last owner.

There is no dell loading screen before windows boot up screen. Is there anyway of fixing this?

I have tried flashing the bios to the newest version and still no luck.

Any advise appreshated!

Dell studio 1558 upgrade

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Hello everyone. I got Dell studio 1558 1st gen. Bought it back in 2010 and now is the time for the upgrade. I am looking to get more RAM and SSD. 

My question is, how to figure out what SSDs are compatible with this laptop? I am thinking of possibly  buying this one in near future - Intel 520 Series Solid-State Drive 180 GB SATA 6 Gb/s 2.5-Inch.

 Would it fit in my laptop? Is this a good choice? To be honest, i based my decision on amazon customer reviews so i can use some advice here.

Now regarding RAM. I have Intel i-5 processor and need to know if it will support more than 4 GB of RAM (that is what i currently have). Also, what is the highest Peak Throughput supported by my CPU?

Inspiron power on password help?

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Having removed power on passwords back when using the pull battery or change jumper method when purchasing this Inspiron (made after 2004) I was unaware this method does not work. Please help. Its an Insprion w/ service tag of: .<Admin Note: removed per privacy policy~RK>

. and the unlock hint number is: 5A11281E

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. My email Addy is: <Admin Note: removed per privacy policy~RK>


Thank you,

Benji

Laptop Inspiron N411Z not running

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When i turn on, i get this: BOOTMGR is missing

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

How Can i make it Work Like manufacture,Like the first Time i got it? Please help!!!

Laptop won't turn on

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I pressed the power button on my Inspiron 15 5000 which turned it off. When I hit the power button to turn the computer back on it did not work. Nothing happened it looks and sounds as if it is off. It has been plugged in for an hour and still does not turn on. I have even held down the power button for 20 seconds to try and have it power on and that did not work

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