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XPS 15 not recognising AC adaptor - not charging battery

A few days ago my XPS 15 (L502X) started giving an error message on startup and whenever I plug in the charger that reads:"The AC power adaptor type cannot be determined. Your system will operate...

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Dell N5030 Laptop

My mother-in-law has a N5030 laptop and it is not working right. I would like to reformat it but there is not a partitioned drive on it like I think there should be. Should there be a partitioned...

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Touchpad gestures/scrolling/pointer not working after windows 8.1 update on...

Just got a brand new laptop, Dell Inspiron 11 3137, and updated to windows 8.1. The touchpad does not work properly now; gestures/scrolling/pointer not working. I've spent over 16 hours getting windows...

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Smart extended self test failed

Hard drive test for my system: inspiron 3521 ends with an error with the message Failed. I have attached a screenshot of the log file output showing SMART Extended Self Test:  Failed.

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XPS 13 Screen Problem

I have a Dell XPS 13 purchased in January last year. Seemingly without reason my screen has stopped going to sleep when the laptop is closed. This is obviously a major concern for me, especially...

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studio xps 7100 desktop that won't start

ran diagnostics got 0f00-075d and 0f00-065d errors long and short sata drive.What can I do?

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Battery is considered to be bad

Hi. After some time my laptop started to show message "You battery is bad and can not be charged". I replaced battery with new one. It works well, but I still get the same message. How can I turn it off?

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XPS 15 L502x External Display Quality

Hi All, Am trying desperately to work out why my laptop give me a fuzzy picture when connected to an external display. I have Windows 7 64 bit with Geforce 540M + Intel HD3000 + all the newest Nvidia...

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Dell Inspiron n5010 Bios Password Reset Help

I need to reset my Bios Password to change boot up options so that i can reinstall operating system by USB. Please help.

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Keyboard retroillumination

Hi!There is any method to prevent that the keyboard is retroilluminated since the start-up of the pc?(dell inspiron 1530\windows 8)Thanks in advance,Trafalgar 

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Dell Backup and Recovery (Premium) Ver 1.6.2.4 Can I Use a USB Pen (8GB) to...

I wish to create a Rescue Disk using Dell Backup and Recovery can I use a USB Flash Drive to do this?

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Inspiron 3521 backup and recovery usb key not detected

Haii have dell inspiron 3521(windows 8 64 bit) i am trying to create factory image with sandisk (cruzer switch) 16gb but it is not detected i have the latest bios version A12 and the backup and...

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Dell XPS 13 Processor Fan Failure?

Hello there,I was on my laptop today for a good 2/3 hours while it was charging and decided to run a diagnostics test on the laptop.It was during this that I received as PSA V4216 failure on the...

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XPS 15 L502X keyboard problem

Hi everybody. I've got a XPS 15 L502X and it started to gi/ve me problem i/n my keyboard. Letter r come with b. Letter b come with r. Letterb i come with /. Letter q sound off. Letterb p come with...

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realtek gigabit ethernet (inspiron 7520) sometimes can not take ip. need...

im inspiron 15r se (7520) user. this machine buil in realtek (Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (PHY: Realtek RTL8211/8212)   ethernet adapter.problem one: sometimes windows can not...

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battery problem

hi The charging light is lighting white and orange and my lap n5110 is not starting using the battery. Moreover, any time I blog it off the lap turned off. can any one help????

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Inspiron 15R (5537) won't wake from sleep when lid is closed via usb...

I have an Inspiron 15R (5537) that has all the latest drivers with Dell BIOS A01 (Windows 8). I have the options for closing the lid set at "Do Nothing" for both battery and plugged in, however no...

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Inspiron 7537 and Bluetooth mouse disconnections

I just bought yesterday the above model. I used also a bluetooth mouse from logitech. However, I face up many disconnections very often (I mean that in one minute three or four times). I tried to...

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Latitude E6440 Fan Noise & BIOS Thermal Control

Hi,I just bought a new Latitude E6440 Notebook with an i5-4300M and SSD using it with Linux. I noticed that the fan was continuously spinning until I installed the graphics driver from ATI and switched...

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Backlit Keyboard

I just bought a dell inspiron 17r(5737)and in the quick start guide it says that the f6 button toggles the backlit keyboard but if i press fn+f6 it doesn't fuction.And i don't see any icon in the f6...

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