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Windows 7 Wifi driver for Dell Inspiron 5523

Pretty simple question. Does anybody know where I can find the wireless drivers for the 5523? I've tried the ones listed here http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/Product/inspiron-15z-5523. But...

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Inspiron N5010 Motherboard problem (maybe)

HiInspiron N5010When the power adaptor is plugged into the laptop the LED on the adaptor goes out. The machine will not turn on and the battery will not charge (the battery is now flat).I have...

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Inspiron 1520 Shuts Off Within Seconds

I have an Inspiron 1520 Dell laptop, and when I boot it up, I can sign in but after about 10-30 seconds the computer starts to shut down. I have tried a hard reset and removing the battery, but not of...

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Lower Watt Power Supply = less cpu power?

I am using a 130W power supply with my M6400, and it seems sluggish in 3DSMax (can't scrub with audio cleanly)..Is my CPU being throttled back since I'm using a low wattage power supply?

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Dell extended battery life - only option is switch to power saver mode

It says in the dell extended battery life page that these 3 options are available on every computer - Change power plan to Power Saver — select this option to change the power scheme to Power Saver,...

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Help! Dell Inspiron 15z Failing to boot

HiWe have 2 Dell Inspiron 15z Windows 8 Laptops and they've both become stuck in a reboot/problem blue screen/reboot cycle today. Rarely reboot these Windows 8 machines, but one rebooted today and had...

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Inspirion N7010 Turns on, first 2 lights come on, screen is blank

I have a rather elderly, at least 2 yrs old, Insprion 17r laptop that I recently had to replace the battery in. No, I did not buy the battery from Dell, if I had that kind of money I would've bought a...

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PCIe Riser for M4600 to solve RME MADIFace connection problem?

Hello,System is new M4600 Precision laptop interfacing with PCIe card from RME.  Having errors which all diagnostics are pointing towards the delicate connection of the card into the PCI slot of the...

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Dell Inspiron 17 R SE

My Dell Notebook is only 4 months old.   I am finding the speed to open up to browse in Firefox or Internet Explorer is rather slow. Also when I wish to open up  AOL to check my emails, there is this...

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Backlight Bleeding on XPS 13 FHD?

Hi, I just received my XPS 13 yesterday. When I turned it on I noticed it has backlight bleeding on the 4 corners when the dell logo screen came on. It's not really noticeable after the PC boots, but I...

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Inspiron 7520 won't recognise Kindle Fire HD

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 SE 7520 with Windows 8. However, when I connect my Kindle Fire HD via USB it will not recognise it. When I connect it to my wife's laptop it works fine (she uses Windows 7).I...

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Pretty Blue Screen Of Death - Dell Studio 1558

I have a Dell Studio 1558.  Its been running a bit slow lately then yesterday turned it on, it loaded W7 but seemed to freeze and then the screen went sort of lilac with lots of jiggly lines.  I've run...

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Unable to Install Win 7 from Win 8

Dear Team,I have purchased Laptop "Inspiron 15 3521 Service Tag: <Admin Note Service tag removed per privacy policy>.In this laptop i am not familiar with Win 8 pls suggest i want to change OS...

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Dell Inspiron M5030 Battery

Hi All,I have a Dell Inspiron M5030. Two days ago, I notice my battery icon was showing about half. It stays plugged in at all times unless I am traveling. I floated over it and the message says "56%...

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Inspiron 630m Ethernet connection problem

Hi thereI have an Inspiron 630m laptop running XP SP3, which all works fine on our wifi connection ... recently considered using the ethernet port.NIC is Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated...

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Inspiron 1545 Not Working

Hello Everbody, Two years ago I bought a Inspiron 1545 and it worked amazingly. Then, before yesterday, I left a program (World of Warplanes) installing while I went out. When I came back, I saw a...

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Dell Notebook Inspiron 17R - Cant't lock in to my Laptop

I went to the pc settings intending to change the settings.I click 'general' under advanced startup. Then I click 'restart now'. I chose the option 'troubleshoot', click 'startup settings'. A panel of...

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Insipron 13z 5323 black screen issue

hi ,i have inspiron 13 z 5323same issue black screenbefore diagnostic test gave error code 2000-0332but later it was giving test passed ..no errorswent to bios changed SATA operation to ATA and...

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Loss of wired LAN when using USB slot next to port - 7720SE

Didn't know if this is suppose to happen or not, but when I plug in a thumb drive in port beside the LAN jack and I am using a wired connection, the LAN connection/adapter drops out and does not...

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Disk read Error on startup

Hello everyone i have one Dell Inspiron N5110 i7 and it is too slow. When i do the dell diagnostic i saw that the read on the Hard Disk it's failed. Then i went to my  computer on the local disk, then...

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