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Dell XPS 13 Fan Noise

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Hi guys!!

I have one XPS 13 and the fan make noise. Is too noisy. I have updated to Windows 10 recently and I'm reading this about the fan noise fix: 

www.dell.com/.../DriversDetails;fileid=2902722114

Is compatible this FILE.EXE with my Windows 10?

Thank you very much.


KB3140741 caused right side of keyboard to stop working on Dell XPS12

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I finally succumbed to upgrading to Windows 10 on my Dell XPS12 and everything seemed to work fine.  Then one day I couldn't log in because the right side of my keyboard wasn't working.  I finally got in with the virtual keyboard and found out that KB3140741 had been installed.  The option to uninstall it was greyed out so I finally decided to revert back to the backed up Windows 8.1.  After a total shutdown the keyboard worked EXCEPT for the two shift keys.  They appear to be mapped to other functions though replication of what they do when I push them has been difficult.  Any suggestions on how to get the keys working as shift keys again?

Fan Cleaning Assistance

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My Dell Inspiron 14z - 5423 ultrabook's fan has recently stopped working. During usage, I hear a low grinding sound/high pitched straining sound from the area of the fan. I assume that this is the sound of the fan straining against the dust (there's a buildup of dust visible). 

I've decided to clean out my fan with compressed air, but it's my first time doing so. There's a few questions I have.

1. Is it necessary to remove my battery before cleaning the fan? My laptop's battery is hidden under the CPU and it's a lot of trouble to remove it, and I'm scared of doing something wrong.

2. Is it viable to clean the fan without taking the back off? Taking it off is an option, but I'm pretty experienced and I'm prone to breaking things...

3. I've read up on cleaning out fans and they all say to use "short, strong bursts" of compressed air to clean the fanblades or they may spin to fast. How long is "short"?

4. Should I remove the fan from the computer to do this? 

5. Some people advise to use mineral oil or such to touch it up. I assume this isn't needed?

6. Guides also say that static electricity is dangerous. Is there specifically something I need to watch out for?

The back of my laptop is confusing to me when it comes to opening...

Thanks.

Fan Cleaning

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My Dell Inspiron 14z - 5423 ultrabook's fan has recently stopped working. During usage, I hear a low grinding sound/high pitched straining sound from the area of the fan. I assume that this is the sound of the fan straining against the dust (there's a buildup of dust visible). 

I've decided to clean out my fan with compressed air, but it's my first time doing so. There's a few questions I have.

1. Is it necessary to remove my battery before cleaning the fan? My laptop's battery is hidden under the CPU and it's a lot of trouble to remove it, and I'm scared of doing something wrong.

2. Is it viable to clean the fan without taking the back off? Taking it off is an option, but I'm pretty experienced and I'm prone to breaking things...

3. I've read up on cleaning out fans and they all say to use "short, strong bursts" of compressed air to clean the fanblades or they may spin to fast. How long is "short"?

4. Should I remove the fan from the computer to do this? 

5. Some people advise to use mineral oil or such to touch it up. I assume this isn't needed?

6. Guides also say that static electricity is dangerous. Is there specifically something I need to watch out for?

The back of my laptop is confusing to me when it comes to opening...

Thanks.

slow inspiron 5559 ?!

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I got a new inspiron 5559 laptop and it is incredibly slow!

I would expect 16GB Ram and the 6th gen i7 Intel processor with pre-installed windows 10 to be the fastest laptop around but it's exactly the opposite.  

What's going on?

USB ports not working at all

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So not that long ago, ((two days))  my usb's all *** the bed and stopped working completely. I've done just about EVERYTHING the internet has told me to do and recently reset my laptop completely in order to take it down and 'erase' everything and anything that could be wrong. This did NOT fix it. Everything says it is fully updated and I've looked for, and downloaded diagnostic tools up the wazoo. Again this did not fix anything.

It appears to always be 'usb-if xhci host controller' which went to the yellow exclamation point when this happened. Since this started only ONE port actually powers anything. ((I used my Iphone to see this but it did not register that it was in the slot and just powered it)) Now I'm down to disabling/uninstalling EVERYTHING that is USB related once more, and seeing if that makes my usb's start working. ((It hasn't yet, I've tried four times.)) I'm on the brink of taking to a laptop repair guy I know and spending a few hundred dollars to fix it. But I figured I would post here and ask for help.

My system is: Dell Inspiron 15R 5520.
15.6" screen running on windows 8.1 

Please help me.

Help picking a new motherboard

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Hi everyone, need help picking a new motherboard. I have a dell n5110 with i3 processor, i want to upgrade the processor to i7. I know that the i3 motherboards are diffrent from the i7. I just dont know what motherboard to get. Any help would be great.

Thanks

Pawel

Help upgrading motherboard and the processor.

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Hi everyone, need help picking a new motherboard. I have a dell n5110 with i3 processor, i want to upgrade the processor to i7. I know that the i3 motherboards are diffrent from the i7. I just dont know what motherboard to get. Also i know some motherboard come with the nvidia graphics but does it come with the motherboard or do i have to buy it separately. Any help would be great. Thanks


New SSD on XPS L702X, BIOS sees a removable device as well

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Hello ppl!

I am new here, so forgive me in advance for any misconceptions. I have done my research for my problem, but to no avail. 
I have a DELL XPS L702x, from which I have been really satisfied, since it supported my mild gaming and 3d modelling well the past years. I decided to give "him" some extra life by replacing the old HDD (1 of 2, with the original OS having been upgraded to WIN10, with no problems) with a new Samsung Evo 500GB. I laso did an internal cleaning, and thermal paste renewal, since the opportunity presented itself. So I installed the SSD on the slot of the old primary HDD. Bios saw it fine, so I inserted the USB which I had used for the Windows Installation Program, supplied by Microsoft. The installation begun, but the "cant locate a partition" message appeared. I did the "diskpart" , with and without the alignment and long format, to no avail. Googling my problem, I got a glimpse of a problem with the 3.0 USB, so I thought "let's give it a try" and actually it worked! Hurray!
But, after copying the files to the SSD, the windows installer had to reboot. After rebooting, here we go again with the installation. I did it again, I formatted again, I changed the boot sequence, I removed the USB, no progress whatsoever. After careful examination, with the USB removed, I saw that the BIOS had a "Removable device" boot sequence option, so I hit and, miracle!, it resumed the installation. Entering windows, I see that the second HDD does not appear. But the device manager recognizes it, so I enter Disk management, and just by assigning it a letter, everything is fixed and I get my second HDD working as normal (just for back up purposes, no OS installed there). After some upgrades done by windows and Nvidia, I reboot, only to find out that after the DELL logo, all i get is a blank screen with the old dos cursor blinking (Just like when not having an OS installed). I change again the sequence and opting for the removable device, and again it enters windows. After some research, I upgrade my Bios from A14 to 19 and perform an Intell Matrix something installation, since Dell does not support this laptop on win10 anymore. 
And here I am stuck, as each time I open my laptop I have to change the boot sequence for the pc to login to windows. If I set the removable device as 1st option in default boot sequence, nothing happens, so I have to do it manually. 
The BIOS sees the SSD, the HDD, and a removable device. I should have seen it earlier, but in WIN10 installation, it presented me with two separate, but identical options like this: "Install windows 10 on volume 1" and "Install windows 10 on volume 1",. I believe this is related to the BIOS issue. 
I am currently thinking to perform a win7 clean install, so that Dell autodetects and installs the current drivers for the hardware, then upgrade to win10. But I dont think this will provide any solution to the BIOS issue. The SATA options are AHCI and ATA. I swapped between these 2, but nothing changed. I dont know if it is due to the hot-swapping ability of the AHCI, but even if it is, I dont know how to disable it. Even if I do disable it, the system does not boot from the HD (SSD) in any case, even though it is the same hardware actually, sine I have unplugged the USB long ago, and the HDD hasnt any OS installed. No DVDs/Blue rays placed there either.

I thank you in advance for your support and ideas and apologize for my english, but it is not my native language.

Best regards

Dell inspiron 15R 5537 USB 3.0 Problem

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Hello

I've Inspiron 5537 , and i've trouble with the USB ports.

I try Using SanDisk Flash Drive 3.0 on 3.0 Ports but it's not working well, it should write 150 MB
but it only write 25 MB like a 2.0 Port..

I tried to:

- Install Intel USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver, but i've windows 10 and it only supports windows 7 :(

-  Check BIOS whether USB3.0 is activated (it is)

If there is anything else to try, please let me know.

Best regards,

Orabi

Vostro 3350 BIOS Update Failed - Recovery Procedure Needed

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I had a working Vostro 3350 laptop and was doing maintenance to bring it up to date. I downloaded and installed the recommended BIOS update for this laptop... Dell Vostro 3350 System BIOS 3350A10.EXE.
The BIOS update failed and left the computer with no working BIOS. F2 is dead. It will not boot.

I read similar topic: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19593398.

there is a guide:

1.  Download the Dell BIOS update .exe file to a USB flash drive.

2.  Run the .exe file with /writehdrfile parameter

3.  Run the .exe file with /writeromfile parameter

4.  Copy the .hdr file to winery50.hdr

5.  Remove the battery and AC power from the dead computer

6.  Insert the flash drive into the dead computer's USB port

7.  Hold down the End key and then connect the AC power

8.  Dead computer reads USB flash and asks if update should be done

9.  Allow the update to finish and then reboot.

10.  Computer is now working normally.

But I do not know which key to press me (End or another)? And need use flash card or sd card?

And I do not know how need called my file: winery50.hdr or winery30.hdr maybe....

Can someone please help? Thanks, Alex

Dell XPS 13 (2016) SSD upgrade question

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Hello! I recently just upgraded my Dell Precision M4800 work laptop to a Samsung Pro 850 SSD. It had a 500gb 7200rpm hard drive previously and it was painfully slow at times. The SSD install was really effortless. I bought my SSD and a USB-A to SATA adapter and cloned my hard drive using Samsung's included software.

Getting to my XPS, it does not seem this easy. I want to install a Samsung 950 PRO PCIe M.2 512gb SSD to upgrade my current 250gb SSD.

Is their a similar cable I can use such as the one I used for my work laptop? I've been looking all around and it seems most say they're not compatible with PCIe drives. You'll have to forgive my ignorance on all of this but some extra help would be greatly appreciated!

E6230 Fan running under no load

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Hi all! I just bought an E6230 off ebay. This has a clean install of Windows 7. I have taken the bottom panel off and looked and the fan and internals are impeccably clean. My problem is even at 1% to %5 cpu load the fan is running constantly like crazy. How do I fix this? I would think this computer would run faster with 8 gigs of ram, an I5 processor, and SSD? Thanks!

Vostro 3550 - keyboard backlight has stopped working

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Hi all. I don't know what's happened but since opening my laptop to do some repairs, the keyboard doesn't light up anymore. I've owned this laptop since 2011 and it's always worked until now.

In Quickset, the BacklitKB.exe says 'Unable to detect the backlight keyboard'. It's the same Quickset version that the backlight used to work on, I hadn't changed it.
Fn + F6 doesn't turn it on.
Fn + right arrow doesn't turn it on.
Here's a picture I took yesterday. There's two ribbons on the back of the keyboard. The wide one that I believe controls the keyboard functions and the thin one that controls the backlight, to my knowledge. The thin one is currently connected.
Although when I unclipped the keyboard from the chassis, the clip on the motherboard holding the ribbon isn't as firm as it should be it. It doesn't really click, it's a little loose.  It will hold the ribbon in place but it's very easy for the ribbon to come out without pulling the clip up. Not sure if that's the problem, if it's the ribbon, the motherboard connection or the keyboard broken. Or a software issue.
I could buy a new backlit UK layout keyboard, but before I do that, I wonder if anyone can throw any light on the matter. Many thanks.

xps 13z motherboard

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i have a l321x and recently broke an item in the motherboard..and i try to find what it is..

thank you


Replace Windows 10 Home by Enterprise

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Hi. I just acquired a Dell XPS 13 9350, with Windows 10 Home.

But I have license for W10 Enterprise edition.

I would like to install this last version, but I want to be assured that I maintain the recovery partition with the factory Windows Home recover option.

First, I would like to know if the Dell XPS has a recover hidden partition, and how to test for its presence. In case I noticed that the XPS becomes slower with Enterprise edition, can I recover to factory settings with Windows 10 Home edition and all of Dell applications and offers?

Second, installing Windows 10 Enterprise, which drivers and applications should I install, since in the support and drivers page there are innumerous files to install. I’m sure that not all of them are needed.

Thank you in advance.

Bluetooth on Inspiron 14Z 5423

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Hi everyone,

i bought my dell inspiron four years ago, it works perfectly except for one feature: bluetooth. it works well but very very slowly and it keeps disconnecting from my devices. Also when it is connected it shows a range of action of, i think 20 cm. Someone has any idea what's going on?

More info: Windows 10 Home, Intel core I-5, x64

About bluetooth: Dell Wireless 1703 Bluetooth Qualcomm Atheros Communications

Thank you for your help :)

CD-DVD drive not working right. Inspiron 5748 w/ HL-DT-STDVD+-RW GU90N drive.

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Insert a disk and it will work for about 30 seconds I can pull up the program on the drive. But then the drive will go into no response. Lock up the explorer screen.

I am using disks with their own readers on them that will pull up the data files. They work fine in any other machine I use them in.

It shows in product ID 1B0 which I am taking as the firmware.

Before I go looking for another drive I was wondering if there was a firmware upgrade for this drive. 

Or if anyone has any insight into this.

The driver is the Generic Microsoft driver is the 6/21/2006 V 6.1.7601.17514 That is right. Tried an uninstall and reinstall.

Any thoughts?

Thank You

Dell XPS 12 9Q33 on windows 10. Displays not detected when waking up or after restart.

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When the XPS wake up or when you select restart, the external displays will not get detected. You will have to open the XPS lid and once you get to the Login screen, close it. Only then will the monitors be detected.  Any idea how to fix this.

-XPS 12 9Q33 running Windows 10.

Dell Inspirion 3540 Bluetooth Not Working

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I'm an IT intern at a high school of mine and we've ran into a problem that is specific to all of our Dell Inspirion 3540 laptops. The bluetooth in all of them just endlessly search for devices, never with a result. All of our other computers in the domain have perfectly fine bluetooth and the drivers are completely up to date. They are running Windows 7 Pro x64, Service Pack 1. Any helps/tips are appreciated.(I hope I put this post in the right forum)

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