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L701x bios 2 cpu? i7

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in bios showing 2 cpu not 4

a10 bios, same for windows experience 2 cpu

any ideas?

windows 7

a10 bios

L701x laptop

quad


Inspiron 15z

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I have just received my new inspiron 15z with the standard power supply. I have one from my company and was wondering if its compatible. The model number is DA130PE1-00 and the Dell P/N in JU012

 

I don't want to plug it in and blow up my new laptop!

Thanks all

GT

Won't boot--3 beeps--but HD seems to be good

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Hi.  New to this forum so let me know if there's a better place.  We have an old Vostro 1500 workhorse my wife's had for six years--she's worn out 2 sets of mouse buttons!  Suddenly it won't boot.  In fact it doesn't even show any of the splash screens.

    When the PS is plugged in the battery icon blinks about once every 2 seconds, which I gather is a low-voltage warning.

    When I press the power button it has about 3 seconds of HD activity, 3 quiet beeps, and nothing more.  HD continues to spin but no read action.  This happens both with and w/o battery, and with two different Dell power supplies--both known good from a brand new Dell ultrabook. 

    But strangely, if you leave it unpowered with no battery overnight, on 3 occasions now it gives the "Windows didn't shut down properly" screen and lets me boot to safe mode, which suggests the HD is at least reasonably intact.  Unfortunately I didn't have time to download everything. 

    The battery's definitely a problem but the local computer-battery guys say Dells work fine just on the PS without a battery. 

     Someone suggested the BIOS might be locked in a voltage-out-of-range protection (keeping it from booting) and suggested that if this was the case, removing the coin battery would allow that to reset.  So I did, and it didn't help.

     I realize replacing the main battery would help troubleshooting by ruling out the batt as a cause, but since we're retiring it I hate to spend $80 or so on a dead duck.

     Any suggestions/ideas greatly appreciated.  Thanks.


    

New Dell Charging Adapter Flickering When Pugged In

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I've owned my Dell Studio 1555 for about 4 years now, and its never given me any issuses. Although recently my AC adapter cable started to fray at the end with the blue LED light, and eventually it wasn't able to charge my laptop with out tape to hold it together. So I looked online and was able to find a new AC charger on amazon for 14 dollars. Its not exactly the same as the original charger (its a bit bigger) but all and all it seems to be pretty much the same charger, and in the product description in said it would be compatible with Studio 1555's. The first day after I received it it seemed to work just fine and was able to charge my laptop with no troubles.

However the next day, after unplugging it one time, it isnt able to charge my laptop anymore! When I plug it in the indicator light on my laptop flashes on for like a second, and then it turns off and then the blue LED light on the end of the charger starts to flicker for as long as its plugged in. Also when it isnt plugged into my laptop, the blue light still seems to flicker very slightly.

I dont think the issue is with my laptop because i was still able to charge it with my broken cable. Although, I dont know if in doing that I somehow fried my computer.... If anyone has any idea what the issue here is I would really love to hear your thoughts. Thank you!

D5000 WiGig dock - 6430u - Display quit working

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So, my desktop support technician deployed a new 6430u with the D5000 dock to our CIO.  It worked for a little while and then video quite working.  LAN connection worked, peripherals are working, but the display isn't working.  I've unistalled and reinstalled with the latest A03 driver/application package and still no video.  So I go grab one that I know works, take it to my office, set up the hardware, establish the connection and everything is working fine.  I think to myself, that the other one must have been a lemon.  But when I get back into my CIOs office and power everything up - BAMMM!!!!  No video again.  Same scenario, everything but the video works.

I take both units back to my office and for the life of me can't get video to display on the external monitor.  I noticed that the DisplayLink software isn't showing down in the system tray, so I try to install the software again and get the message that the latest software is already installed and the program exits after confirming the message.

Scratching my head on this one.  The only thing I can think is that the two gigantic, powered speakers (by Infinity) on the CIOs desk, where I set the D5000 in between caused some sort of electromagnetic interference that fried the video chips on both D5000s.

Anyone have any input or thoughts on this?  Has anyone else experienced anything like this?  Regardless, Dell tech support is replacing them, but this really baffles me.

Message Shown in Boot Screen

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When i Open my Dell Inspiron 15R 5521 its shows "scanning and repairing drive" how i can remove the message from my boot screen, i already update my bios and make it as default  Please help me 

Dell XPS Laptop wont let me log in

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My laptop has been fine up until now. I go to very first screen and I type in my password and it tells me my password is incorrect. I have restarted it and even tried to reset my password but then it says that I needed a disk to restart it with but I have never needed that before. I hold down enter and it starts to do the welcome but then stops after 30 secs or so and says incorrect. Any thing that you can tell me would be very appriciated

Dell inspiron 1545 lcd bezel problem

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Hello.

 The lcd bezel of my inspiron 1545 is broken. I don't know if it can be fixed. It seems pretty ugly. Please help meCrying Sorry for my english. Thanks in advance.

 


Questions about Inspiron 15z

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I currently have a Studio 1749 17" laptop with backlit keyboard  that has batteries that last less than two hours and the bottom heats up so much I have actually had blisters form on my thighs! Because of these things I am going to get another laptop. I'm considering the Inspiron 15z with touch. But I need to know how hot it gets and how long the batteries stay charged. Can anybody give me this info?

Numerous Problems With My Dell Inspiron 7720 Since The Very First Day

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1.My touchpad won't respond to the scrolling gesture. (i've uninstalled the driver,waited for months for the new release,downloaded and installed it from dell,yet still not functioning). this is over a year of persistent attempts.

2.I can't access the bios.

3.Fn + Functions keys sometimes not functional.

Dell Inspiron 7720 Very Frustrating Problems.

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My Del Inspiron 7720 Has been giving me these problems since the very first day

1.My touchpad won't respond to the scrolling gesture. (i've uninstalled the driver,waited for months for the new release,downloaded and installed it from dell,yet still not functioning). this is over a year of persistent attempts.

2.I can't access the bios.

3.Fn + Functions keys sometimes not functional.

Inspiron 15r 7520 boot problem

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Hi, I fitted an SSD in the optical drive caddy and all was well. For some reason the disk became corrupted so I had to rebuild it. Done that and now I'm having difficulty getting it to boot from ODD in F2 setup. I enabled legacy option ROM so can see network and ODD boot options. My laptop now boots to network first then my SSD. Unfortunately when I try to change the boot order from network to ODD the laptop crashes. It's happens ever time I tried to change boot option. I can press F12 and choose it ok but I want it to boot automatically to my ODD. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot Charlie

Dell XPS 15 L501X HDD upgrade

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Hi,

I am using Dell XPS 15 (L501x) laptop which came with 500gb of internal HDD.

Now am willing to replace my HDD with 1TB hard drive.

So do my laptop supports 1TB hard drive?

My laptop specs are:

  • Intel Core i5 (1st gen)
  • 8gb ram
  • 500gb hdd
  • 1gb Nvidia geforce 420m graphics card.
  • Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OS

Thank you.

How to allocate the free space in Disc C to other discs?

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Recently ,I bought a computer ,there is only one disc in my computer ,i am wonder how to creat three more disc and allocate the free space in the c disc to the other disc in my computer if you can help i'd appreciate it very much .

XPS 13 Left USB issue

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This issue is discussed in detail at :

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19491324.aspx

but no dell representative is around to comment / support.

The main point of failure is:

Some devices do not work well when plugged into the left usb port of Dell XPS 13 

Devices that have been tried:

USB3 WD Passport External Hard disk drive - hard drive does not even mount when connected to left USB, whereas it works perfectly on the right USB
Unifying Receiver - mouse does not work  when used around 30cm away. I have tried this with 2 different unifying receiver, and the result is the same. At the right usb, the mouse works perfect

other users have also reported that their android phone does not mount on the left USB but right USB works good.

I have contacted Dell support and had even changed the daughterboard that host the left USB, but the issue remains. I hope Dell can provide a solution to this issue.


Dell 7520 re-install windows 7 ?

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I got this laptop and has just 1 hard drive (no ssd) on it and its partitioned in 4 parts (C,D,F,H)

I have windows 7 installed on C drive, and I have some "REALLY IMPORTANT DATA ON D, F and H" drive.

I can't backup my data on external HD as I don't have any.

Now the C drive contains some dangerous viruses and lags very much. And I wish to re-install windows 7 "ONLY ON C Drive"

Is there a way to do this ? I have the Dell Drivers & Utilitis DVD, and OPERATING SYSTEM (Reinstallation DVD Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64-Bit) DVD.

Any helpes.

Dell inspiron n5050 beep sound five times

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hello i have Dell inspiron n5050 laptop beep sound five times. need help

inspiron n5050 screen issue

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Hi,

M using inspiron N5050 model.

while m using it suddently my laptop screen is not working properly.

screen is showing some waves of different texture. i removed my battery and i connected still the screen is showing these waves.

complete screen texture is scrambled.

Could you please suggest the best way to resolve this.

Installing a SSD and reinstalling Win 7

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My Latitude E6500 laptop came with Win XP/32 preinstalled and with reinstallation DVDs for both XP/32 and Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit.

Now I have bought a 480 GB SSD and want to install Win 7, which should be better handling SSDs.

Can I just install the new SSD and install the Win 7 OS from reinstallation DVD? Or is there another more complicated procedure I have to follow.

Do I need a MS 5x5 digit productionkey? The envelopes for the DVDs (from Dell) have a barcode

xx-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxx-xxxx, which does not look like the MS code.

If I have problems with the Win 7 installation (old hardware, programs etc.) can I just clone the old HD to the SSD with the included software (from the Kingston Upgrade Kit) and overwrite the Win 7 installation, or do I have to erase the SSD in some way first.

Thank you.

Peter R.

8 beep sound with no display in the monitor - DEL XPS L502x

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Im getting an 8 beep sound while powering on and the laptop display is not appropriate. I tried removing batteries and restarted but nothing is working out.

Help me out to resolve this issue.

Model: DEL XPS L502x
Usage: 1 yr. Not under Warranty period.

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