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New XPS 13 (9343) USB speeds slower than 2.0

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Received my new XPS 13 this week and love it.  I've had zero problems with it until I ran USB benchmarking and discovered both of my USB ports are only operating at a max of 30MB/s.


This is obviously much slower than 3.0 speeds should be.


Any suggestions?


M6400 Laptop keyboard switch?

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i have an older M6400 running XP Pro that recently had the keyboard stop working. The tracking pad still works fine. No input whatsoever when you type, which of course starts at the password prompt. Tried to get into the setup mode, but of course F8 doesnt work either.  This happened once before a few years ago, drove me crazy, and I seem to recall finding some sort of obscure keyboard lock or off/on switch that made it work again. Of course I've looked all over and tried multiple keys and no luck. External keyboards do work though. Any help would be appreciated

Audio & touchpad drivers.

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Hello everybody ! I 'm new at the forum ,so I wanna exuse if here is not the right place for my question but I have a problem with my Audio and Touchpad drivers. My Laptop model is Inspiron 17 5758 and after reinstallation of Windows 8.1 I have no options to adjust my touchpad. I have the same issue with the wave maxx audio driver as well. I tried a couple of times to resolve that with the actual drivers from official Dell website but without any success. So If somebody can give an advice Where can I find a real working drivers for Windows 8.1 ,please let me know.

Thank you in advance.

Rado

Wireless Mini Card

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How can I find out which wireless mini card my Inspiron 3521 uses?

LapTop Latitude E5530 Dell & Memory

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The existing Memory clips when pressed to open and release to install additional  4MB memory will not release ?  LVIT

How can I fix my laptop?

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Hi, this is Jimmy.

I bought a laptop 3 month ago. But, all of USB port doesn`t work anymore.

I have tried to fix this problem I could not find any clear solution.

Please help me out to fix or let me know how to send it to the repair shop

Upgrading my CPU

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Hi I have an alienware M17x 2009 edition. I currently have an Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 quad CPU Q9000 with 2.00GHz. i was wondering if there was anyway to upgrade to a better CPU since mine is now considered low end. If I could replace it what would you recommend.

Dell wireless 1390 Alan mimi-card

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I can not get my latitude D360 to connect to my netgear wireless router. It worked fine at my other residence. All of my tablets and smart phones work fine via WiFi on this router. My laptop has windows 8.1 OS which I am not familiar. My router WiFi security requires a Mac address for a device to connect but I can not find one for my WiFi card. Please help.


Dell Vostro PP37L laptop hangs after booting

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Respected sir/madam,

                                            sir i have dell vostro pp37l model laptop. it goes in hang after booting. i have installed windows 7 32 bit professional. following is the log inforgamation which is genrated after reboot the laptop.

Log Name:      System
Source:        Service Control Manager
Date:          7/9/2015 10:01:42 AM
Event ID:      7001
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Prachi-pc
Description:
The Network Location Awareness service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/.../event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7001</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-07-09T04:31:42.170869700Z" />
    <EventRecordID>71479</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="432" ThreadID="436" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>Prachi-pc</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">Network Location Awareness</Data>
    <Data Name="param2">Network Store Interface Service</Data>
    <Data Name="param3">%%1068</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

please give me solution as early as possible.

sorry for bad english

Thanks in advance

                                     

Power Problem Latitude D620

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I have the above laptop which originally had XP but I have done reformat and installed win 7 32 bit. everything works ok but when I unplug the power cord the screen goes black, if I plug the power cord back in the screen powers up again.

I've upgraded the bios to a10 version but no help with this problem. I have noticed that none of the drivers have power options and power schemes do not show option for screen brightness when on power or battery. I have also installed quickset but this does not make any difference.

could someone help me with this?

thanks in advance

Blank screen when power cord removed Latitude D620

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I have the above laptop which originally had XP but I have done reformat and installed win 7 32 bit. everything works ok but when I unplug the power cord the screen goes black, if I plug the power cord back in the screen powers up again.

I've upgraded the bios to a10 version but no help with this problem. I have noticed that none of the drivers have power options and power schemes do not show option for screen brightness when on power or battery. I have also installed quickset but this does not make any difference.

could someone help me with this?

thanks in advance

Dell Inspiron i5 windows 8 will not boot !!!

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Dell Inspiron 17R Windows doesn't boot, stays on dell logo screen with blue bar loading at bottom. Then goes to blank black screen and stays there for a while and shutsdown.

XPS 13 (L322X, Early 2013) Ubuntu crashing when under load

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I have had continual crashing of my laptop and a bit lost on where to look and what to do. 

It came originally loaded with Ubuntu 12.04 and upgraded to 14.04 to see if that fixed the issue. 

People have been suggested it could be driver issues, but trying to work out if it is a driver issue and if there are possible updates to the drivers has been hard to identify. Especially when there seems to be no Dell utilities. 

The crash normally occurs when the system is under load (ie running Netbeans and starting Tomcat/coming all code with maven etc). I also get the feeling that the machine hits 100% CPU and high load much easier compared to a work colleagues machine. Although sometimes it does crash on start up after logging in.  

Nothing is appearing in Apport reports in the /var/crash directory. 

I have had issues with the fan, where either noisy or not working at all and key board gets hot,  and I need to upgrade the bios to fix that issue (from V A09 to A10 I think). However I assume this is unrelated to the crashing.

Any help or tips on where to look would be much appreciated.

AFAIK I have not updated or changed any drivers since buying the machine 2 years ago.  

NOT BOOTING MY N5110 SYSTEM

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DEAR SIR,

                     MY SYSTEM IS  NOT BOOTING AND BLANK SCREEN .AND GIVE 7 BEEP AFTER  PRESSING POWER SWITCH.

                                                          THANKS.

Dell Latitude E6420 screen flickers with charger plugged in?

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I just bought this laptop the other day refurbished from NewEgg, it was supposed to be a basic setup ( No DVD-R/W, BlueTooth, nVidia Graphics, Camera, Fax, the better resolution screen, etc). But lucky me they sent me one with all those features for the price of the basic model, my point being I REALLY don't want to send it back for a replacement so please try not to suggest it.

 When I first got it I checked the battery and charger to see if it was Dell brand but unfortunately they were replacements like I expected (but the charger is the right voltage). My problem is when I plugged it up to the charger to activate Windows and install updates, after which I started to turn down the brightness from the Fn / arrow keys and when I got to a certain level of brightness the screen went black, after unplugging it and a restart I plugged it in again and it did the same thing again without me touching anything. So for a couple days I just didn't use it while it was charging.

Today I decided to update the BIO's to the latest version incase that was the problem (from A5 to A21 or something like that) and that requires the charger to be connected so I did which gave me the same result, only this time I realized the screen wasn't off it was the backlight  that was off. So having to use a flashlight to see the screen I updated the BIO's and while it was updating the screen was visible again but after it restarted the screen still stayed on but was flickering (only with the charger plugged in).

I've tried adjusting the settings in the BIO's like I read somewhere to set the battery to default before doing the update but no change, haven't tried it after as I have it charging currently. Earlier I took the bottom cover off to check it out before any of this because the charging port on the laptop wiggled a bit (the whole thing not just the prong) and I found that the bracket which holds down the port was loose and tried tightening the screw but its down as far as it can go.


So my suspicions are either I need a certain driver update, the charging port was possibly replaced with a *** one, or the charger is just cheap Chinese junk but other than that everything looks appears like it did when it was new. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this?, I can take it apart and replace things myself.

It does have the nVidia NVS 200M if that helps

Any ideas?, Thanks.


Dell ePort Plus II (K09A002) not recognized under linux

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Hi,

My docking station is not recognized under linux (both Fedora 22 kernel-4.0.6-300.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux and Ubuntu 14.04).

The bug is similar to the one reported and WONTFIXed in this kernel bug (acpidump is same with or without dock) so the problem is on Dell side it seems.

How can I investigate and where can I report ?

Thanks!

Top 2 rows of keyboard not working - Latitude E6420

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Hi,

I have Dell laptop where I faced problem with Keyboard as follows:

While I was using the laptop, keyboard was working fine and then one by one almost all keys of top 2 rows (i.e. function keys & number keys-without pressing Shirt key) stopped working.

I was renaming files when it happened. Suddenly I couldn't delete character using "Delete" key and next was "Home" button which stopped working. Next were number keys which stopped and all of this happened within like 30 minutes.

There are no external device attached except external hard drive. I removed external hard drive and rebooted the system. I have removed battery and placed it again.

I formatted C: drive and reinstalled Windows Pro 7.

Even after all of these actions, top 2 rows of keyboard is not working.

Do you think it could be hardware problem? How do I know for sure that replacing keyboard would solve it?

I tried running quick diagnostic tests from Dell site but it didn't work. System Detect tool is not getting installed and hence diagnostic test is not working.

Can you please guide me how to fix this problem?

Thanks & regards,

Ajit

Precision Laptop won't turn on

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My Dell Precision M6500 will not turn on.  The power cord has 19.5V power confirmed.  With the cord plugged in, the yellow battery LED flashes when I press  the "on" button.  With the power cord unplugged, nothing happens when I press "on".  The battery indicates that it is charged.  I bought a brand new battery from Dell and get the same results. 

I tried removing the battery and starting the computer with only the power cord attached and it still will not come on.  Is there any way for me to get it to turn on?

Dell 1555 won't boot most of the time

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Hi everyone,


I got a Dell studio 1555. A few weeks ago after a reboot the I could hear the optical drive sound when booting but no monitor output. Gave me the 6 beeps after a bit which I identificed as a video card / motherboard failure.

To my surprise, I tried booting it again a few days later and it worked fine. Kept working fine for a few more days and then would go back to not starting.

I tried replacing the CMOS battery, and testing the laptop with only one stick of RAM at the time in either slot with no luck. If I hold "D" while booting it does display the display diagnostic test so the LCD is fine.

At the moment it's still very random. Sometime it turns on fine, then right afterwards it would show no output, without touching the machine at all. If left untouched I don't hear any beeps, unlike the first time the problem appeared.

Anyone has any ideas about it?

Touchpad won't work and I'm locked out

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I have an Insperion N5110 with windows 7 home premium.  I went to log in and the touch pad won't work.  The issue is that it is password protected so I can't get into to update drivers or check anything.  I ran diagnostics and the touch pad worked fine in there and there were no issues.  I checked the Hot keys and that did nothing.   Not sure what to do.  

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