Quantcast
Channel: General Hardware - Recent Threads
Viewing all 28119 articles
Browse latest View live

Dell Inspiron 3537 Missing Hard disk space after terminating Dell Backup and Recovery Manager Process

$
0
0

Good day,


I ran Dell Backup and Recovery Manager to correct system problems. The recovery Image is on an external hard drive.

The problem is that the process took over 2 days to run and I couldn't tell whether the process was still running or hanging so i terminated the process by unplugging my external HDD (premature ,i know)
.

i managed to boot my system. Problem is I had 126GB free space before running Dell and Recovery Manager. .Now only 10GB is left.!!

How do i recover my initial free space?

Appreciate your help

Many Thanks,


Inspiron 5759 Not turning on.

$
0
0

Can someone please help. My brand new Dell laptop will not power up no matter what I try. It arrived yesterday (no box damage), I plugged it in and nothing happens . The green led on the power supply glows constantly and when I plug the jack into the laptop a white led on the front left glows for about a second and then goes off. When I press the power on button nothing happens - no lights, no noise, nothing. I've left it on charge for several hours but still nothing.

I have tried the static discharge test (remove battery, press power button etc) and still no luck.

I really don't know what else to do.

Can anyone help?

IRQL Blue Screen of Death AND Laptop Freezing while using Microsoft Word

$
0
0

Greetings,


I'm sort of running out of options here.

To note, an engineer came to my home to change my keyboard in December as a few keys were broken. On his visit he noticed something was wrong with my HD as there was an error message. So the HD was replaced... and windows 8.1 re-installed...

Lately I've been experiencing some problems.


First, when I am watching videos on the laptop for whatever reason in the middle of the video, first the screen goes grey with some lines on the screen, then it's fine again.. then every now and then the entire thing crashes and I get the IRQL not less or equal message and the whole system restarts. This has happened three times in the last 2 months. After the system restarts, I notice it seems to restore the system to an earlier date, where some document and exe files would be missing (if installed after that random earlier restore date, which I did not set).

I tried looking this up and I don't know if it's still a realtek driver issue but I updated my drivers so it's likely not that.

Next, I've used microsoft word for years, on many different laptops and on this one.. For some reason the screen suddenly froze when I was using word and even CRTL+Del did nothing. I had no other choice but to manually turn the computer off and on again. The weirdest part about this is I definitely saved my document continuously while writing, but all my 'save attempts'  must have not registered as everything I wrote today was gone (recovered document only went back to the last save conducted 10 hours ago).

Can someone please help me?

Power light isn't working

$
0
0

Hi,

I just bought dell Inspiron 5447 / 5000 series , everything works good except the Power button light it is not showing any light. is it off or there is no light at all although it seems to be.

Thanks you

Inspiron 3551 Touchpad - erratic

$
0
0

Hi there - hoping someone can help.  New Inspiron 3551, bought last year.  Touchpad very "sticky", erratic, would freeze.  Upgraded to Windows 10, worked fine until about last week, when it's started doing the same again.  Will freeze, or move slowly, or randomly highlight half the screen, etc.  Hugely frustrating..

Have uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, external mouse works fine.  

Any suggestions? TIA. 

Dell battery genuine or not ?

$
0
0

Hello

I bought a replacement battery for my DELL XPS 14, but it doesn't work.

The battery was sold as original.

Here is the number : CN-0FFK56-71766-25E-I0GR-A00

Can you please check whether its DELL original battery ?

Thanks and Best Regards

Dell Vostro freezes after few moments after startup

$
0
0

Hi, I have Dell Vostro 3550. After starting up my pc the home screen appears and few moments later it freezes. Can you help me to solve this?

Battery for dell inspiron 14R 5437 no longer available?

$
0
0

Several days ago my laptop's battery had stop working, it says the battery needs to be replaced

So i am looking for the new battery on dell site, but i can't find any of the same battery,,

Even when i visited the dell's support center, they said that battery type is no longer available,

My battery type is MR09Y, 65WH, 11.1V, 5800mAh lo-ion.

The technician recommend me to replacing it with a different type of battery,,

What i want to ask is, can a battery with different type number ( other that MR09Y ) works on my inspiron 14R?


Vostro Bluetooth module not found in Windows 10

$
0
0

My Vostro 5470's internal Bluetooth module does not appear at all in device manager for some months now. It is enabled in the BIOS. The boot diagnostic says it is active as well. I've tried Blutooth drivers versions 17.1.1524.1353_A00 (from Dell) and 17.1.1531.1764_t64 (from Intel) to no avail.

I run Windows 10.0.10586 and BIOS version is A12.

Related info that may (or not) help:

  • An old external Bluetooth dongle does work.
  • I get USB Power surge / Unknown Device messages quite often but it seems I don't have any USB problems.
  • My touch screen does not work anymore although it reports no issues in device manager. (I'll leave that to another post.)

Help much appreciated! Thanks.

Failed Online Test - (PCI Bridge - Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation)

$
0
0

I purchase a used Dell Precision M6600 Service Tag: <SERVICE TAG REMOVED BY ADMIN> because I do a lot of CAD work for my job and they were not able to afford a new one.  It has been working fine for the last 6-months then when I was working on a project the computer locked up and I had to do a "hard shutdown".

When I ran the Dell online diagnostic test the following component failed:

PCI Bridge - Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Proc...

PCI Express Status Test  -  WPE01-ESC

I have tried searching online here in the forums and through search engines to try an determine if it is a motherboard or CPU issue, but have not found anything.  What is strange is that the computer works fine for "normal" computer use (e.g. Internet, email, word processing, etc.), but locks up tight when trying to run CAD.

I need someone to help point me in the right direction regarding the error so I can get it resolved.

Dell inspiron 15r n5010 not turning ON..when power button pressed

$
0
0

My dell inspiron 15r n5010 laptop is not turning ON

I have connected AC adapter ....it's light is glowing fine

I have removed battery again connected back ....then tried to turn ON ...but then also...laptop is not turning ON

Please Help Me ?

Can MSata and SSD exist on Dell M3800 at the same time?

$
0
0

Hi I have a M3800 that has a 500G Mstata installed. I removed the standard HDD and installed a PNY CS2111 SSD 960GB SSD in the 2.5" drive bay replacing the old HDD. However when I booted the machine back up there was no SSD found. The SSD is not seen in the bios or in Windows (Disk Management) 

I'm assuming that both drives can be used on this machine at the same time. I just need this drive to mount so that I can used it. 

Issue with Latitude E6540 - Windows button lagging

$
0
0

Hi,

I have a issue with a Latitude E6540, when I click on the Windows button, it takes about 10 to 15 seconds to show the menu. I can hear the disk spinning. I installed a Samsung EVO SSD to replaced the HDD ( 500 GB ).

Anybody have this issue before or know what causing it ?

Best regards,

Yannick Guillou

Blinking issues on Dell 5748 laptops

$
0
0

Hello Dell,

 Two months I posted following post. http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/19670284/20886562?rfsh=1456472383714

Since no answer comes I am obligated to repost it again. Since we are small hardware development company we has to keep our customers satisfied and your laptop we recommend to our customers as most suitable to work with our hardware.

    Problem still remain in newer model 5758. Can you suggest what we can do since we have to deliver
to our customers new instalment of our equipment and we add those computers as part of ourdelivery. If our cutomers still epxerinece the problem then unfortanatly we need to bought another laptops. 

Please answer.

 P.S Connecting of external devices such as bluetooth keyboard increase blinking dramatically.  Our hardware is connected to laptop via LPT port. Blinking still have place without any equipment connected

Drivers for E4310 unreachable

$
0
0

Bonjour, i have remastered my Dell E4310 but, don't have any driver CDs.

I tried to download the specific drivers on the Dell support area, but when i go to the page, i cannot access the "Drivers & Download" link. The page usually stops loading before or is going back to "Diagnostics".

I would like to download all drivers for the E4310

Am i the only one who can't access the Drivers and Download link ?


3 Monitors minus the laptop

$
0
0

With the Latitude E6540 I currently have 2 monitors plus the laptop.  However I would like to be able to close the laptop and have an external 3rd monitor instead.  Is this possible?

My Dell laptop Windows 8.1 Inspiron 3521 will not start windows after I restored it.

$
0
0

My laptop computer restores but will not start  windows up. It says a Recovery petition is missingy Dell  laptop computer restores but will not start  windows up. It says a Recovery petition is missing.

How do I create a Recovery Petition? What do I do next?

Ghost bubbles Dell 7347

$
0
0

Has anyone really found a solution, other than disabling the touch screen?

confussed

$
0
0

please can someone help. i have discovered by battery in my laptop will only charge when i turn on the laptop  by battery power, when i plug it in and turn it on it says battery is not charging..!! iss it the battery fault or the laptop. the battery is only 1 year old and not often used on its own

thank you would apreciate your thoughts as i have a charilty dance to run and need my battery as its outside and i need my music..gq

Dell E7440 i5 4310U 16GB RAM Upgrade issue

$
0
0

Hi,

could somebody help me, please. I recently purchased 16GB (2x8GB) 1600MHz RAM modules from Corsair but when I insert them into the machine the laptop doesn't even start. The POST LED tells me that there's an issue with the memory.

Reading Dell description, Corsair description 16GB are supported by this model. Tried the modules in another laptop and they are working just fine.

Any idea? Thanks

Viewing all 28119 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images