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XPS 13 9350 Touchpad Tweak Questions

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I've recently bought an XPS 13 9350 (Win10) and have spent the past day tweaking things up to suite my preferences and old configs etc, however there's a couple of things I want to change with the touchpad that I can't figure out.

1) Single Finger Edge Scrolling: I really dislike two-finger scrolling and would like enable single finger vertical scrolling along the right side of the touchpad. All my previous laptops supported this functionality so I'm sure it can be done.

Some suggestions I've come across online involve downloading new Synaptics drivers, however I really don't want to do this in fear of busting my new machine. Does anyone know any way to achieve this?

2) Double Tap Acts As Scroll Wheel Press: Double tapping the touchpad currently acts as a right-click which I find pretty annoying. I know there's a settings in Windows 10 to disable double tapping but there's no setting to change its behaviour.

I basically want a double tap to behave as if I pressed the scroll wheel on a mouse (ie opens/closes browser tabs etc). Again, does anyone know how this can be done?

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!


XPS12 Will not power on - no lights - nothing

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I came back from a trip and it won't do a thing.  I've left it plugged in for days and nothing.  Even plugged in it won't power on.  There are no lights on the power button, the side or behind the keys, it's getting no power.  I even bought a new power cord and tried that, nothing.  Multiple outlets, nothing.  

Called about sending it to pay Dell to repair it since it's out of warranty, but Dell said sorry, we don't have parts, find someone local.  Any have any idea what I can try before I drop that kind of money?

XPS 13 (9350) - How to connect two monitors with thunderbolt?

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I bought a XPS 13 (9350) laptop and would like to connect my two Dell P2416D monitors (2560x1440 resolution) using the thunderbolt connector.

What adapter do I need to buy to connect my dual monitor setup?

Thanks in advance,

Markus

Keyboard Keys Produce Incorrect Characters

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I have a new Alienware laptop and the keys  have multiple characters associated with some of them.  as example the " key has 4 different characters on the key.  When I hit the i shift key  it dos not give me the quotation mark   but gives me the } character.  How do I fix this?

Help! Laptop stuck on black screen with flashing underscore on startup

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I tried to restart in safe mode but now I'm stuck on a black screen after the dell logo on startup. I've run diagnostics and there are no errors. I have seen a couple of posts about the motherboard but I don't want to touch that! Also seen a post about using the disk you get with the laptop but I don't have this. Any ideas on how I can resolve this ASAP please?!

Dell e6520 will not Miracast with Win10 because its WDDM 1.2

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Miracast requires WDDM 1.3.

Will the driver ever be updated?

Dell 9550 XPS 15

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Hi,

I did an update of my BIOS, but i am wondering why the dates differ. Last Update of BIOS is 25.2.16 but the bios date shown in my msinfo32 is 25.1.2016

 

hm.?

 

and: why is there not just one button updating everything in recommended order?

 

 

Upgrade Ram of Inspiron 14r 5420

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Hi, i want to upgrade my memory ram of my inspiron 5420 to 16gb. I wanna know if is posibble. I read that 7420 that have the same motherboard of my computer supports 16gb but dell says that only support 8gb same as my computer. Both have HM77 chipset and series 7 (3rd gen). Can i do that? I don't care about garanty or something like that, the only thing that i want to know is that it works or not.


Inspiron 5420

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Hi, i want to upgrade my memory ram of my inspiron 5420 to 16gb. I wanna know if is posibble. I read that 7420 that have the same motherboard of my computer supports 16gb but dell says that only support 8gb same as my computer. Both have HM77 chipset and series 7 (3rd gen). Can i do that? I don't care about garanty or something like that, the only thing that i want to know is that it works or not. What do you think?

Touch screen drivers not migrated

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Since updating my DELL Inspiron 15R from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 the Touch Screen has stopped working.  Selecting 'Device Manager>Human Interface Devices' reveals that the 5 icons (which can only be seen by using 'View>Show hidden devices) for 'HID-compliant ....' are greyed out - device, touch screen, defined device (x3) as well as the icon for USB Input Device. Right clicking on all 6 icons and selecting 'Properties>General' shows Currently, this hardware is not connected to the computer (Code 45).  When I select 'Properties>Events' all 6 reveal the same message - Device not migrated.  The timestamp corresponds to when I updated to Windows 10.  

I originally asked Microsoft about this.  They suggested that I uninstall the drivers and reboot and they would "automatically reload".  Well...no, they don't.  I restored the laptop to a point before that action so now have the original drivers back in.  MS then said that I needed to contact DELL.

DELL stated that as there are no dedicated Windows 10 drivers the ones I had for Windows 8 (the original software at purchase), or the ones I had when I had upgraded to Windows 8.1 would work so I just had to check for the latest ones and install them.  I did check, the latest are installed but...they don't work.  

It is not the 'error code 45 - hardware not connected',  that is the problem here.  I think that is the result of the 'failure to migrate', not the cause of it. Funnily enough sometimes the touch screen does work on booting up but it usually stops working soon after.  Most perplexing.

Can anyone help with this 'migration' problem as I cannot find any help from MS or DELL on what to do to fix it?

Thanks

processors in laptops

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Somebody can explain me how can i know if my computer can support a higher CPU? my current CPU is an intel core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70Ghz and i want to buy an intel core BX80646174790K i7-4790K Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.40 Ghz ). Both processors are quad core, and i don't know if my motherboard is capable for support that processor. Somebody can help me please?

Dell 17R Motherboard Part Number

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Hi,

All was fine until my son poured water on my 2011 Dell 17R with Intel Core i5-460M 2.53Ghz / 3M processor. For buying a new one online, I am looking for the part number of the motherboard that will work. Will any motherboard available on ebay such as this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Dell-Inspiron-17-17R-N7010-Intel-System-Board-Motherboard-GKH2C-DA0UM9MB6D0/391273766019?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D777000%26algo%3DABAw.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D35696%26meid%3D2632734ad1764320aa28dd527cb0c4e3%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D351151446468

will work?
Thank you

Arvind

Inspiron 5459 Keyboard upgrade to Backlit Keyboard

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Hi 

I have recently purchased Inspiron 14" 5459 in India. This comes with a non-backlit keyboard.

Is there a way to get it upgraded to Backlit Keyboard? If yes, can this be done via Dell Support or I'll have to procure the OEM part on my own and replace?

Cheers,

Rahul

Inspiron 1545 charging / battery light flashing red /white , not chargeing

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Hi, our 1545 went a bit wrong a while back and hard drive got corrupted, at same time the charger seemed to to fail so bought a replacement 21 non Oem off eBay. When I plug it in now the bios message is something like not correct charger and 65 w. The battery says its normal and charger unknown but the battery light clashes red then white, it is not charging either and as soon as you pull out charger the machine dies.

Is this a charger issue,battery faulty or something else?

Thanks

Dave

dell inspiron 3543 G3FG632 crashed

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hi,

I update the windows to win 10 64bit and system always crashed

the unknown driver c:/windows/system32/drivers/stoport.sys appears to have caused a system crashed.

the wdi driver framework driver c:/windows/system32/drivers/wdiwifi.sys appears to have caused a system crashed.

the dell wireless 1704 802.11b/g/n 2.4 ghzdriver c:/windows/system32/drivers/bcmwl63a.sys appears to have caused a system crashed.

I try to install update wirless driver I cant and it is come messege

Dell Wireless 1704/1708 WiFi Driver
v7.35.333.0 (A04) December 18, 2015

The update installer operation is unsuccessful.

can you help and I want all driver for this device


XPS 13 9350 Ubuntu 15.10 fan/heat issue

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Hi, I have the above model and have dual booted it with Windows 10. I am having heating and cooling issues whereby the laptop is reporting a temperature of up to 75deg C however the fan is not turning on. If I boot into Windows at this point, the fan will turn on, but in Ubuntu it doesn't.

I have done a months worth of searching and messing around and can't seem to resolve the problem. I regret to say that at some point during my testing that the fan actually did turn on but I could hardly hear it and am not sure what I did to get to this point - especially since it has since stopped turning on.

I have tried things related to the i8kutils package, fancontrol package and the default thermald and nothing seems to work. I believe what I did last time related to just thermald and did not require extra packages. Has anyone faced this issue or is able to help?

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers

N7010 power button not working

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My 17R N7010 will not start up, and on dismantling it is the power button not working. If I press the actual switch on the power board with my finger it runs, but the white plastic button mounted on the wrist rest dies nit contact it. Is there a way of seeing an illustration of the plastic button so I can see what it shoukd look like? I think I will need a new wrist rest board, as the button is heat-rivetted in place?

Brandnew Laptop with defects

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I just bought the Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series in IT show here in Singapore on March 03, 2016, but it seems that something wrong with the Keyboard as press a letter, the whole keypad is moving, please advise where I can bring the laptop for a service

DELL INSPIRON 3543 G3FG632 BLUE SCREEN

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HI,

I have problem with DELL INSPIRON 3543 after update to windows 10 64

the system always crashed and make restart and come PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA blue screen of death .

I try to update the driver of wirless and I cant because of messege

Dell Wireless 1704/1708 WiFi Driver
v7.35.333.0 (A04) December 18, 2015

The update installer operation is unsuccessful

and the below is the crashed messege:

1- the unknown driver c:/windows/system32/drivers/storport.sys appears to have caused a system crash

2-the wdi driver framework driver c:/windows/system32/drivers/wdiwifi.sys appears to have caused a system crash

3-the dell wireless 1704 802.11b/g/n 2.4ghz driver c:/windows/system32/drivers/bcml63a.sys appears to have caused a system crash

and please provide me with all latest drivers for the above device

Cannot Turn Off Airplane Mode

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I have an Inspiron 7537, I upgraded to Windows 10 several months ago and never had a problem until the other day when airplane mode turned on for no apparent reason.  I've tried using the radio-tower button (all other keys work), as well as using network settings but each time I click airplane mode off, it automatically switches back on.  I did a PC reset but that didn't work and I've uninstalled and reinstalled the wireless driver as well as run Dell's driver scan several times to make sure all proper drivers are present.  There is no physical switch on the laptop for airplane mode, and again, the radio-tower button has no effect.  I have Ubuntu installed as well, and when booting into that the wireless card still cannot be activated.  I'm completely lost on this and have tried all possible solutions I've found online.  Please help!

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