One of the front USB ports went awol last sunday and so did the machine a few minutes later that did not want to boot anymore. Called Dell on monday morning and on tuesday noon a technician came to my place and changed the motherboard, booted the machine and found the front I/O board out of...

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I've been buying Factory Outlet Dells for a while. I notice I have much better luck with scratch'n'dent laptops than refurbished ones (though they eventually get fixed owing to keeping sending them back until it happens, but it's a hassle.). Refurbished ones tend to have the original problem,...

I've always ignored this notice from Dell that pops up on a couple of my machines, usually when I reboot: https://postimg.cc/image/9purjioaj/ I just click Remind Me Later. I've never ordered any software from Dell, but I guess this is just in case I have, or do, and this notice is installed on...

I have a Dell Precision M6800 laptop that I disable the touchpad and touchscreen on. Every so often they get turned back on! The touchpad is disabled in the UI for the device but will show up as enabled. There is a control for that. Oddly the first time I used it the buttons were turned off as...

This is an Inspiron 15.6" Series 5000, 5559 Laptop. I purchased it new around July of 2016. It came with Windows 10 Home, probably Version 1511 or 1607 back then. It's currently fully updated, running Version 1709, build 16299.309. My question has to do with the number of Recovery Partitions...

Mike Easter wrote in : Boris wrote: Have any of you any experience with off lease latitudes? Not exactly. I have experience with shopping and buying 'refurbished'. First I bought a refurb desktop through WalMart. It...

I get the following messages on my Dell precision m6600 since upgrading to Windows 10. First this message pops up: Intel Rapid Storage Technology disk on port 3 - detected Then this message follows in quick succession: Intel Rapid Storage Technology

Hi All, good to see some of the Old Regulars are still here, Any idea where to get drivers for an older HP Scanner for Windows 10 upgrade? HP as usual has NO drivers for their older $$$ scanners. This and Ink Jet chips that rendered new ink obsolete is why I stopped buying anything HP years ago....

I have 2010 Dell XPS435T (also known as a Studio XPS 9000), running Windows 7. I want to change the data HD (D:) from a 1.5TB to a 3TB drive. Using an eSATA docking station I have configured the 3TB drive with a single GPT partitiion, formatted it, and copied the data from my original disk onto...

In article Anonymous wrote: Nathan Hale: I have my C: drive encrypted with True Crypt. If I make a clone of this drive, will the clone, when substituted for the present C: work the same as the original C: containing True Crypt,...

Hi all, I have a Dell Dim 9550, which I think is also know as an XPS back when it was new. I loaded this up with 8Gb RAM, and four SATA drives with over a TB of storage for video files. Running Win XP SP3, with all updates and patches through the MS EOL for Win XP. I had problems with this machine...

Have a couple of older Dell laptops - - Dell E6400 - Dell M1210 I've usually added memory to both slots, with the same amount... do I have to ? Does the Dual Channel DDR2 enabled feature access all memory regardless of the slot symmetry ?

On Wednesday, January 26, 2000 at 1:30:00 PM UTC+5:30, Bernard Mushinsky wrote: LPT1 seems to have failed on my computer. I connected the printer to another computer and it works fine. Yesterday and today, I tried to get through to Dell technical support via phone in order to arrange for...

The brand new XP Pro installation having been crapified by AVG9.0 free edition, which instantly quarantined a dozen just-loaded O/S files, I set about reinstalling it. Not so easy! The XP Pro won't get to the reformat page from the DVD but insists on booting what's on the HD instead. If you...

Got a laptop with a broken screen to repair. It was an Inspiron 3520. Ordered the screen. Knew from the service manual that it was another one of those fine Dell offerings which needed complete disassembly to remove the hard drive. Screen arrived yesterday, as promised by laptopaid on...

Hi, I had a motherboard replacement. The tech had set the service tag & it all works okay. But finding out the bios DMI fields & also in ePSA I see the motherboard ppid has not been set by factory: Baseboard Model Baseboard Revision PPID Anyone has AMI bios APTIO 8 DMI edit tool or Dell DMI tool...