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Battery Life Indication Fluctuates

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Hi

Just yesterday I got a Dell Inspiron 15 3000Series and I have noticed that the battery fluctuates. I mean, for example sometimes its says  4hrs 15 mins remaining, and I check it again after few minutes, it says 7hrs remaining. Though the percentage indication of battery doesn't change, its just the time left on the battery changes.

What would be the cause and solution?


Dell XPS 15 9550 Issue Underclock Ram

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Hi, 

I have a dell xps 15 9550 since november of last year. 

Recently, I installed Solidworks and other power hunger software and noticed that none are running optimally. 

I have a desktop with less impressive specs and does a better job than the dell xps.

Because of that, I started investigating and noticed that the ram speed to be severely underclocked and the cpu throttles to 1.6ghz with the battery switching. (CPU issue looks okay now with the new bios). 

I ran CPU-Z and found that my 16gb ddr4 2133mhz is locked at 1066mhz.

The CAS latency is also set at (15:16:18:19) which does not seem optimal. 

Can anybody weigh in on this and give me some feedback? 

I bought this laptop in the expectation of great performance and so far I have been extremely let down. 

Apologies for the rants but I have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this computer..

Dell Studio not booting - 6 beeps

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Hi.  My Dell Studio has been working fine, but the other day when I switched it on it didn't boot and started beeping - a series of 6 beeps followed by a pause and then it repeats...endlessly!  I bought it in 2009, but it's been fine until the other day.  Is it fixable?  If it's the motherboard, is it still possible to get them for this model?

Thanks

Dell Inspiron 15 3521 screen

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my laptop (dell inspiron 15 3521) screen broke (black dots apearing and getting bigger with every day, now i dont see middle of screen and all top left corner), is there is any internet site to buy new screen? if there is, could i get link?

start up menu

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my start up menu doesn't respond all I get is critical error

inspirion 7746 hardware failure in 5 month and technical support from the so useless, 2 hours waiting for a call. i want my money back!

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i bought a new computer some month ago and it msg me that i had a problem with the hard drive, well i did the diagnostic and it said that the problem was from the smart threshold test. that failed. i need the pc for study and i'm am wating alot of time, and when i called to dell it took me 10 minits to an answer, i said my name and later put me on the wait list for the technical assistance and i waited for it 30 minutes and i closed the call because i thought this wasn't normal, then i call back for 30 minutes more and they closed my call after 30 minutes. i want my money back, this computer dont work and the service is useless.

2 Prong Double Insulted Battery To Eliminate Hum

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I am a musician and use a Dell XPS Studio 16 Laptop to record.

When connected to Studio Monitors I experience Hum. If I disconnect the 3 prong Laptop power supply from the wall outlet and run on battery the hum stops.

I've read that if I used a 2 prong double insulted laptop power supply instead of the 3 prong power supply this would eliminate the problem.

Is this true and if so can I safely use a 2 prong power supply on a Dell Studio XPS 16 Laptop and does Dell sell them ?

Thank you....  

2016 - E5570 seconds hard drive

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Recently I received my E5570 Latitude.

Currently equiped with a PCE ssd, so the 2.5' slot is empty.
I would like to add a second disk 2.5' but need the bracket and cable to install it.
What are the partnumbers for this?

Also will it fit?
As the PCE ssd go's over the 2.5" bay.


DELL Inspiron 13 7347 Ghost touching!!!

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I bought this laptop because I heard it was one of the greats I have windows 10 on it but the touchscreen randomly starts going crazy which I have read is called ghost touching. these white circles in a vertical start popping up in random spots on both sides of screen and starts popping up apps or settings etc...when I flex the screen a little it stops or I have to move the screen back and forth a couple of times. but has there been a fix for this??? Ive done everything that I have read on dell support pages forums everywhere all over google and it still not fixed. is there a way to disable the touchscreen until I can get it fixed??

I did a clean install of Windows 10 PRO - How do I enable desktop mode

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Before I did the reinstallation - I had that option when I right click the battery icon on the task bar to enable desktop mode.

Would anyone please tell me which piece of software I need to download to re-enable it?

Thanks!

Issues with Installing Windows to my Dell 3043 AIO

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Hi,

I purchased Dell 3043 AIO PC with Ubuntu OS already installed. Now I need to install Windows 7 OS. Although I tried to install it from my USB, it was not successful. On the BIOS, it does not show my bootable USB device. So, can you please give me a solution to this problem?

Regards

Mohan.

XPS 13 9343 Going to sleep/hibernation after 30 seconds

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Hi all,

I'm having a strange issue with my XPS 13 (9343, FHD screen, i5 5300U).

It is going to sleep/hibernation ~30 seconds after I lock my account in Windows (Win + L) even though I've set Windows to not sleep at all, even when on battery.

Why I am unsure if it's sleep or hibernation is because the power button is not on at all, but I can at the same time resume the machine by moving the wireless external mouse.

The first thing I did with this machine was to format the disk, install Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 and add it to our domain.

Thought this issue was related to Windows 8.1 (after living with this issue for 8 months) so I've just reformatted the disk and installed Windows 10 Enterprise (1511 edition)... and the issue is still present [:'(]

I can't find anything in the BIOS that seems to be related to this issue. I did find one setting about C3 state, I changed it for enabled to disabled but it did not seem to change anything.

Anybody got any ideas?

Regards
P-H, Sweden

Latitude E5430 Airplane Mode Switch in Windows 10 still works despite being disabled in BIOS

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I am the systems admin for a high school and we have over 90 Dell Latitude E5430s that are on laptop carts used by students.  Since I used to get called all the time about these laptops and other Dell Latitude Laptops not working because the wireless switch was turned off I completely disabled the switch in the BIOS.   This worked great under Windows 7 and saved me lots of headaches explaining to teachers to flip the switch.

Now that we are beginning to roll out Windows 10 I found an issue that when Windows 10 is installed there is a driver for the Wireless switch and that will flip the computer in airplane mode despite the switch being disabled in the BIOS.  This is very frustrating. 

Now I know I can manually uninstall the driver and the switch will not work but this is a pain to manage and I think it will affect our Latitude E5440 models as well which we have over 120 of.   I manage and image my computers through System Center Configuration manager and have loaded the dell driver packs on that.   I even disabled that specific driver but we also have Dell KACE and that installs the driver.   I can disable that particular driver on KACE even but if an update ever comes out that will get installed without me knowing it possibly.

Why does the computer and driver not respect the BIOS override I put in place?

Intel HD Graphics 5500 issue in Dell Inspiron 5558

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Hello! I have a query related to video memory of Intel HD Graphics 5500. When I have installed the recommended driver on Dell site for my laptop, it shows

total available graphics memory 3839 MB

dedicated video memory 0 MB

system video memory 0 MB

shared system memory 3839 MB

But when I updated the driver from device manager, it shows

total available graphics memory 3968 MB

dedicated video memory 128 MB

system video memory 0 MB

shared system memory 3840 MB

Can anybody please explain this? Also, should I keep this updated driver or roll back to the previous version?

One more thing, when I set up this laptop for the very first time after purchase, I remember the total graphic memory it used to show was something around 2k MB. I don't understand why does it share this much now. And if this graphic memory is shared from RAM, then it's almost eating up 4GB of my RAM!! The system has total 8GB RAM. Is it fine to let the Intel graphics share so much of RAM when this laptop already has 4GB dedicated Nvidia Geforce 920M? Please help.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Aditya

Latitude E7240/DockingStation/Uz2315H Monitor Issue

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Our current setup for most users in our environment is the Latitude E7240 Laptop, Docking Station and the UZ2315H Monitor.

This particular monitor has the Webcam and Speaker attached to it, so it requires a USB cable to be hooked up from the monitor to the docking station. When I do this, I get the USB Power Exceeded error in the bottom right corner of the screen, and the speaker/webcam do not work.

Any assistance with this would be appreciated!

Thanks


Alienware 17 freezes when gaming and plugged into ac adapter but not when running on battery

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Over the past year i have had a problem on and off with my alienware 17 laptop. While playing games with the power adapter attached i usually have a problem with the game freezing causing me to have to hard reboot my computer but when i play on my battery it works perfectly fine. Even when i run on battery mode while playing games and plug in the adapter the computer still seems to freeze up on me. The strange thing is that i can do school work and surf the web while the adapter is plugged in. 

Computer specs:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHz

Memory: 16gb 

Error Code

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Please help I ran a diagnostic on my computer and got tge following info

Error Code 2000:0142

Hard Drive 0-S/N S2WZJA0D361210

Validation Code 78667

IF someone can help me in finding out what I need to do to correct this I would appreciate it.

Format option not show when installing window 7ultimate

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I have facing window formatting issue. When I installed windows custom I have not find my drive options like C,D,&  drive and  not able to click format and not create new drive

D620 Laptop only recognizes hard drive when docked

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I have a Latitude D620, Centrino duo laptop and Pro1x Dell Docking station.

The laptop will boot and operate just fine as long as it is in the docking station.  Everything works normal while docked.

When NOT in the docking station ....
When I try to power up off the dock, it will not recognize the hard drive or DVD drive.

Bios does not show the presence of either device.
On boot, I get an error ... device in the system modular bay can not be identified.
(1) Try reinserting / re-seating device
(2) Power off the system
(3) press [power button to try and detect device
ESC to ignore and try and boot
It will not recognize hard drive or CD drive regardless of steps taken above.

It will recognize and boot from the usb drive when not docked.

I have checked memory and removed / replaced auxiliary components. Tried different power supplies. Different hard drives. Reinstalled Windows xp , Windows 7 and Tried Windows 10. All with the same results.

Have also re-installing bios A10.

Has anyone had the same experience and resolved the problem?

Baffled as to why it works normal when docked, but fails to recognize drives when undocked?

Static/Crackling Sound - XPS 15 9550

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System: XPS 15 9550, 4k Touch

I have updated to BIOS 1.1.15 (Dell Site Download) and have the latest Windows Updates.

Since I started using the device, it makes a static sound when touching the touchscreen/trackpad.

It does not do this consistently but once it happens, it will continue to do so until I reboot.

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