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Dell Inspiron 3521 - CPU Beeping Error

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Laptop shut down randomly over the weekend and now when trying to switch on beeps 7 times very loudly, can find that its a processor issue but am going round & round in circles trying to find out how to fix it

Any ideas?? Laptop just over 2 years old and out of warranty

Cant even switch it on to take the stuff off it!!


Dell 7559 very high CPU tempreature problems

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Hi there, 


So I bought a Dell Inspiron i7559-2512BLK off Amazon, it's completely new and have been using it for a couple of days only
I tried to update everything possible, windows updates and drivers as well
Now the problem is, when I game on it, my CPU fries ! it averages between 80-90  and even maxes up to 98-99 !! (Room temperature is not bad .. AC turned on making the room ~25c)
My GPU however stays pretty cool, never exceeds 75c at all 
I don't feel like the fans are actually working hard, cannot hear them, so if there's a way to check for the fans, I would appreciate it (I did test it with the offline diagnosis -F12 Boot- and they passed the test just fine)

And any help in general would be appreciated

PS : the choice of getting it to the service center is not available as it's bought in the US and I'm in the middle east currently 

Red cross near battery meter

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Hi, 

I have a Dell Precision M6600 and I just installed a new battery. It all seemed fine a couple of hours ago, but now there is a red cross sign next to the battery icon and the power is dropping fast. It displays this even when fully charged. The battery seems to be genuine, it was bought from a trust worthy retailer. 

I would very much appreciate any advice on how to deal with this. 

Thank you, 

Andrei

Red cross near battery meter, Dell Precision M6600

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Hi, 

I have a Dell Precision M6600 and I just installed a new battery. It all seemed fine a couple of hours ago, but now there is a red cross sign next to the battery icon and the power is dropping fast. It displays this even when fully charged. The battery seems to be genuine, it was bought from a trust worthy retailer. 

I would very much appreciate any advice on how to deal with this. 

Thank you

Touchpad Unexpectedly Turning On

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Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 7353 laptop.  I have set the touchpad to "off" through the Settings screen.  After use of various applications, the touchpad turns back on even though "off" is still set within Settings.  I can only turn off touchpad functionality again by restarting the computer.

Any suggestions to fix this problem?  Thanks. 

Keyboard key issues on Dell

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Hi
I have a Dell touchscreen laptop and the problem is SHIFT+2, SHIFT+3, SHIFT+' keys are swapped among each other. Please help me out. I have two Dell Laptops and it happened with both of them.

Thanks 
Chinmaya

Dell XPS 15 9550

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Hi,

I have recently bought the 2016 Dell XPS 15 (9550) and for some reason it does not connect to enterprise networks, specifically 802.11k and 802.11r. I cant find a fix and neither can Dell support or the "IT guys at school". Im just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas. Thanks

I have all the latest drivers, BIOS and everything.

My Dell Precision 5510 Throttling Problem

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My dell Precision start to throttle cpu from 2.8 Xeon to 0.8 and can not go back to normal


Alienware 17 won't turn on at all

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Hi,

I have a 3 year old Alienware 17 laptop that won't turn on at all, I've tried the basics, different point different cable and all that.

I noticed the light on the power cable doesn't work until I unplug and plug it back in.  Then when I connect to the laptop, the light turns off and nothing works,  I have disconnected the battery and tried without it also to no avail.  I checked all the connections i could inside and they all appear to be good.

Am I looking at a dead Motherboard?  I can't think of any other tests to do and don't have a spare charger to test with either.

Thanks for reading!

Dell XPS 13 9350 Dual boot with Win/Linux, boot loader errors

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Hi,

Not an expert. Tried a lot of things trying to make my laptop dual boot Win and Lin. UEFI doesnt work anymore (no boot options available), I have AHCI off, use legacy boot option, secure boot off.

Installing Ubuntu gives fatal error installing Grub.

If I run the Startup repair from the W10 DVD it sais it cant repair.

So there seems to be something wrong with the boot sector?

Now I can only install W10, before I could install Linux but even that doesn't work anymore due to the bootloader error. Before it installed but had different problems with the bootloader. Either it wouldnt show up (and started W10) or it just restarted after choosing W10, only Linux would boot.

Tried to delete all partitions with Gparted from live usb but no result.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

E5510 CF Card Reader

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I have two Latitude E5510's that have the exact same issue.  The CFII card reader does not work.  (Or show)  I did upgrade both to 64bit, and Windows 10.  I realize "Dell" doesn't support Windows 10 on these vintage models, but I'm sure its just a driver.  Ironically, the SD card reader DOES work properly.  Any idea of the make of the CF reader or the correct driver I need to install?

Thanks

Dell Venue Pro 7139 - Windows 7 64-Bit

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Hello,

I have one of these machines and it needs to have Windows 7 on it because that is what is standardized in our environment now.  I have it all set up but the only thing I can't get working is the Touchscreen.  I also see that a Serial I2C Controller Driver is missing but I cannot seem to find the driver for it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

installing OSX on XPS12?

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Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to install OSX on the XPS12? Maybe dual boot?

I would like to know if anyone has successfully done this before I purchase.

Thanks

Cloning with Samsung data migration missed a partition?

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Hello Dell Community!

I just got the Dell 7559 and added an 250 GB Samsung M.2 SSD and cloned the 1TB onto it. In disk manager it shows a partition of 11.41GB that was not cloned onto the SSD (see pic). Everything else was cloned fine, I've searched the internet and cannot work out what this 11.41Gb is. Is it just Dell drivers? I want to format the 1TB drive now but am afraid that I'll lose valuable info on the 11.41GB.

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

Dell Precision 5510 - Can't create restore media

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I just received my refurbished Dell Precision 5510 from Dell Outlet and I decided to create a restore media on Windows 10 and it's simply refusing to work.

I have a 32GB USB 3.0 drive that has been used for restore files before, I completely formatted the USB drive using SDFormatter and set the partition type to NTFS, it shows up as being available and with with 29.9 GB of free space. 

I have tried to find another way to create this media and I can't, I can de-select "Back up system files" but that would essentially create a bootable USB drive with no Windows restore data to use with it. 

I did an "sfc /scannow" in command prompt run as Adminstrator but it did not find anything wrong.

I've searched for a solution but couldn't find one, I really think it's important to be able to restore Windows because it seems as though the license is tied to the original install, my Windows shows and activated and I'm afraid to continue without recovery media because it seems like Dell won't be able to diagnose the problem from what I've read online regarding this particular issue  

Has anyone else had this happen, what did you do to fix it? I know that I can clone the full 512GB partition but that seems silly and counter intuitive. 


Inspiron 7000 Series 7559 Keyboard and Power Button Malfunctions (Computer Freezes)

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Around once a month, my laptop's keyboard will randomly stop working out of nowhere. It doesn't matter if I am playing a game or just simply browsing Google Chrome. At the same time, the power button stops responding as well. The only way for me to turn off my laptop is to open up the panel under the laptop and pull the battery cable out. After replugging in the battery cable and rebooting, my laptop goes back to normal until a month later when one of these random freezes happens again.

I've tried factory resets and system restores but nothing has solved this problem. I was thinking that the root of the problem being with the actual keyboard's hardware but I am hesitant to open up my laptop unless I'm absolutely sure of the cause.

If anybody has also experienced this issue or has any suggestions, they are greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure what system specs I should provide so here is a screenshot of some general information about my laptop: i.gyazo.com/da92a4946a6acafa272ec0811f14c5e3.png

My new Inspiron 17 is nearly unusable.

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Two or three times during the day the cursor starts shaking then clicks programs on and off, closes things just goes wild. I've lost a lot of work in the last two days.

What might be causing this?

Jim Lehenbauer 

Inspiron 7000 Series 7559 Keyboard and Power Button Failure

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About once every month, my laptop keyboard will freeze up out of nowhere. It doesn't matter what I'm doing at the moment. However, at the same time, the power button also stops responding. In order to turn off my computer, I have to unscrew the panel under my laptop and unplug the battery cable. After re-plugging the cable in and rebooting, my laptop works fine... until the next time the keyboard fails and I have to do everything described above again.

I have attempted factory resets and system restores but nothing I have done seems to resolve the issue. I suspect that the issue may be related to the actual keyboard's hardware but I am hesitant about opening up my laptop unless it's actually necessary.

Anyone who has experienced this problem or has any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I can post specific specs if needed but here is a screenshot of some of my general specifications: i.gyazo.com/da92a4946a6acafa272ec0811f14c5e3.png

Stylus for e7470 QHD touchscreen

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I've just purchased two Dell e7470 laptops with the 14 inch QHD (2560x1440) Touch Screen. Although having a stylus is not critical, I'd like to know what my options are. I don't know enough about these systems to know what type stylus to buy (capacitive, Wacom or Bluetooth).  I was using a Surface Pro 4 and enjoyed that stylus (Bluetooth and Wacom, I believe).  We've discarded the Surface Pros - awful reliability!  I'm not an artist, but like to annotate docs and do an occasional sketch. I mainly use the stylus as a mouse. Any wisdom?  Thanks in advance!

XPS 13 9350 screen flicker when waking up after sleep mode

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After a clean installation, whenever the laptop is put into sleep mode and woken up it'll flicker much like what is shown here  I need help from where to start to eliminate this problem as the corresponding model from the post doesn't necessarily apply to me...

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