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My XPS 15 L521X won't recognize a working power adapter anymore!

Just this morning my XPS L521X quit recognizing any working power adapter. When it is plugged in, it will recognize it for anywhere from 2-5 seconds and then switch back to battery power and pretend...

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Inspiron 1545 upgrade.

Hi, I have an old Inspiron 1545 which rarely gets used these days and I'm thinking oF revamping it, I'm just wondering if these upgrades are compatible. RAM: 8GB KIT DDR2 667MHZ PC2 5300Full HD screen:...

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Pls help me to upgrade my graphics card on my laptop

I bought dell studio 1558 at 3 yrs back.... spec:  320gd hard disc, 4gb ram, 1gb ATI graphics card...but with this NFS Mostwanted, Shift,Run games and all working dead slow It is strucking in...

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Touchpad recognised as PS/-2 mouse Vostro V131

After reinstalling my computer (Vostro V131, because of a hard-disk exchange) my touchpad is recognised as a PS/-2 mouse. It works quite fine as mouse, but I realy miss the scrolling and the...

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Dell M4400 hangs at the welcome screen and during reinstall of WIndows 7...

So I will sum this up as quickly as possible. I have a background in IT and I've fixed and built plenty of my own machines. But this time I'm stumped. I have a Dell M4400 and I upgraded it from Vista...

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Dell Inspiron 5720 USB PowerShare problem

Hi.I just bought an Inspiron 5720 and it came with four USB ports 3.0, one with PowerShare. My problem is, after installing of all drivers and checking that PowerShare is enabled in BIOS I still cannot...

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hard disc password

I forget my hard disc password protectionI will be glad if you can help me to slove this problemmy laptop is dell vostro 1400

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Is Inspiron 14R-5421 laptop compatible with SATA 3 (6Gbps) ?

Hey guys,This laptop came with a Seagate 1TB SATA2 5400 RPM HD.Now I'm wondering whether it's only the HD that is SATA2 and my MoBo is SATA3 compatible or whether my entire system including MoBo is...

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inspiron 1720 - dim display

Cat sat on keyboard and when I returned to the laptop, the display was very dim.  Full brightness in windows settings and Fn+Up Arrow does not help.  Bios up to date along with all drivers.  I am...

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My touch-pad doesn't work while typing.

The keyboard and the touch-pad don't work at the same time. When I try to type or hold down any key the touch-pad wont respond.I want to know how to deactivate this feature.I have a Dell Inspiron 15R...

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Dell Inspiron M5010 Upgrade processor

Hi everyone!I want to ask you ...which one CPU i can put to my Laptop .Dell Inspiron M5010Now it's:Athlon II P340 Dual coreChipset AMD 785GXSouthbridge AMD SB850. I want put now Phenom II 3 or 4...

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Inspiron 1440 Not Charging

As stated in the title, I own a Dell Inspiron 1440 with Windows 7. I have had it since Christmas 2010, and it was previously refurbished. A few weeks ago, the end of my laptop charger was bent slightly...

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Dell Inspiron 1440 AC power adapter not detected (adapter is working)

Hi!I have a Dell Inspiron 1440.All of the sudden I noticed in the control panel that battery level is low while the AC adapter is connected and ON.I did the following things to trouble shoot:* LED on...

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LOST DELL INSPIRON 1440 BIOS ADMIN PASSWORD

I forgot my dell inspiron 1440 laptop BIOS admin password so i can not change bios settings. so help me to reset my bios admin password

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Internet Speed

Hi there,I recently bought an Inspiron 3721 Notebook. Upon purchase I decided to upgrade my internet speed from 30mbps to 100mbps. When I do a speed test I only get 35-40 mbps via a wireless...

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Dell Inspiron 1501 Start Up Error

Hi everybodyI have a Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop with Windows XP installed that is quite a few years old but that has been working perfectly fine until now. This morning I checked something on the...

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RAM UPGRADE, DELL M6300

Hi everyone, Im currently running XP on my Dell m6300, and found myself displeased with the speed of the general system (boot, within the OS itself, to start up program, etc) and thinking on a RAM...

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exclamation mark on PCI Simple Communication Controller

Hi,Recently reinstall win 7 Home Premium 64bit on Dell N4010. After finishing install all drivers required, i found exclamation mark on PCI Simple Communication Controller. Already search the drivers...

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Can I use recovery after reformat?

I have Dell Studio 1735 laptop which came with Windows Vista. After a while I reformated the laptop and installed Windows 7. The problem is that now I can't enable the integrated webcam. I have tried...

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upgrage MM061 processor from Genuine Intel (R) CPU T1300 @ 1.66GHz to faster...

upgrage MM061 processor from Genuine Intel (R) CPU T1300 @ 1.66GHz to faster speed.I am trying to play movies on my TV with my trusty old Dell Inspiron 6400 computer but it is too slow.  How can I make...

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