Questions tagged [dell-inspiron]
The Dell Inspiron is a line of consumer laptops made by Dell.
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How to make my laptop to use only a part of my diplay?
I am using a Dell 1980 x 1080 Inspiron 5558, Windows 10 laptop. My laptop screen got damaged from the top and right side and so anything behind that portion of the display isn't visible as shown in ...
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Need to replace only display cable or entire display?
I have a Dell n5110. On startup I hear 8 beeps, the monitor shows only black screen. I pressed the 'D' key and the monitor flashed in different colors.
It happened me this a couple of times ago but I ...
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Android hotspot and Windows 10
Probably I'm too stupid for this or it's just impossible. So here is the story. Our company got new Dell Laptops (not my choice) and they are meaned for the use outside. Obviously someone needs to ...
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Single hardware point of failure with the following symptoms?
As a preface, I'm fairly confident this question has no easy answer, and it's certainly not straightforward. Turn back now if you're not interested in a bit of a mystery.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5552 ...
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Got Sauce in my charging port (Dell)
I have a Dell inspiron. So i got spaghetti sauce in my charger port. when i realized this happened i picked out what i could with a toothpick. i continued to use my laptop. i also later sprayed ...
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DELL Inspirion 15, Fan stop after hard drive replace
Few days ago I changed hard drive in mom laptop (old about 8-9 years), but when I put new drive, cpu fan stopped. I check 2 other WD and Seagate. It's not helpful, but when I return to old HDD ...
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Updating bios for Dell Inspiron 1525
I would like to update my Dell Inspiron 1525 bios, but required utility provided from Dell 1525A_17.exe complains regading my battery is not charged. I can't charge my battery because of unknown ...
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Windows right click menu permanently showing
Whenever I right click and "refresh" or "copy" or "paste" etc., there remains an artifact on the screen. And it remains over everything (including a fullscreen youtube video). Please look at the image ...
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How to Program F10 Key to Lock My Windows 10 Dell PC
I own a Dell Inspiron 5555 laptop running Windows 10. It comes with two blank function keys, F7 and F10. I often leave my computer temporarily and want to lock it, so I want to program F10 to lock my ...
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Windows 10 Dual Boot Ubuntu from Dell Restore USB
I have a dell computer that and downloaded the USB installation recovery.
I do not see a simply "Install Windows" option like I am used to with Windows 7. Instead I get a blue screen with big tiles ...
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Dell Laptop won't turn on until I perform an electrical discharge on it
I've been facing a problem from the past week that whenever I hibernate my laptop, it won't start on the next time. I fixed this by performing an electrical discharge by unplugging the adapter and ...
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My laptop display doesn't work, but does emit a "black light"
The display of my laptop, a Dell inspiron 1545 PP41L, all of a sudden didn't show any picture anymore. But it does give of light, but everything is black.
What I was doing:
Trying to restore the MBR. ...
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"Operating system not found" after HDD replacement on Dell Inspiron M301Z
We have Dell Inspiron M301Z with faulty HDD (resulting in freezes). There's Windows 7 installed, booting perfectly each time.
After we replaced the HDD with a new HDD, we cloned the data. And ...
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Not able to max out RAM in Dell inspiron 5370
The laptop came with a single DDR4 RAM (2400 MHz)module of 8 GB installed in slot 1. The other slot was empty. Lets call these slots S1 and S2 respectively.
I bought two identical 2400 MHz DDR4 ...
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Dell Inspirion - are these the 3 pins and the jumper needed to reset CMOS?
And if so, why are there 2 of them?
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Dell Windows 10 PC stuck on desktop refreshing
I'm having a problem with my Dell Insipiron 14 3000 series, whereby it’s constantly refreshing at the desktop screen almost at 10 second intervals or less.
I can’t seem to do anything about the ...
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USB 3.0 flash drive doesn't work on laptop but works on other PCs
I have SanDisk flash drive which is not recognized at all in any port on my laptop but it works on other devices. I've tried to format it as exfat, fat32 and ntfs but nothing works. When the thumb ...
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Dell Laptop - remove media testing in startup
I have a dell laptop (inspiron n3443) .
Every time I power up my laptop it shows this just after showing DELL
logo. After more than 25 seconds the OS starts up.
How can I remove this as it takes ...
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WiFi Driver/Hardware Issue
I hope you are doing well.
My Issue is related to WiFi driver and hardware.
My laptop specifications are:
Dell Inspiron 5570
Service Tag: GP05ZL2
I installed driver from Dell Website. I ...
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Switching OS by just switching M.2 SSD in my dell INSPIRON 5577?
I actually have a DELL laptop with a 100GB M.2 SSD with windows 10. All the OS partitions are in that disk. Also, the computer have a regular 1TB 7200r HDD that is used for DATA.
What I want to know:
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Changing keyboard layout of a laptop
In many Dell laptops, the Home, End, PgUp and PgDn buttons are combined with the arrow keys, so to press one of them you have to press Fn+Arrow; see bottom-right of the figure:
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Windows 10 Laptop Hibernate and Shutdown Freeze Midway to Complete Power Down
When I choose hibernate or shutdown from the power menu, it turns off everything, even the HDD spins down but the fan remains on (probably at the last speed it was on), the processor/GPU apparently is/...
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Is the frequency necessary to be same to increase the RAM?
I have a laptop that is almost 8 years old now and works really good but the question is, it has 3 Gb of Ram that is 2+1 where i want to increase the ram to 4GB now. It is the following description - ...
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Dell Inspiron 5000 uses 50% of memory with no programs
I have a new dell inspiron with 4 GB of Ram, but apparently 2GB of its Ram is being used when I have no other programs running. I looked at task manager and there is no suspicious program, and most ...
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Dell inspiron n5010 showing bigger screen and icons and Blurry screen
I am having problem with my dell laptop (dell inspiron n5010). Last night i install window and now text, icons and other things are showing bigger and Blurry. Even after 10 minutes my eyes are paining....
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Windows 10 - Can I reset local password using my Microsoft Account?
I bought my Dell 7577 1 month ago, it has Windows 10 - Home Single Language OS. I added my Microsoft Account and use PIN to sign in to my laptop.
Now I tried to sign in using a Password and it's ...
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How to enable WIFI on new Ubuntu-Dell Laptop
I just bought a new dell laptop and installed Ubuntu 16.04.4 on it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dell+inspiron+17+5000&oq=dell+inspiron+17+5000
When I log in I see this:
Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
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Properly uninstall microphone and camera on Dell Inspiron
I have a Dell Inspiron, not entirely sure the model but it has the i7 core, 16GB RAM, 1TB storage and quad core.
Camera:
I've been trying to uninstall the camera but every time I uninstall the ...
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How to bypass Dell charger detection?
As the title says, I want to bypass the adapter detection, because it disables the battery charging, and slows down the CPU (I have killed this with ThrottleStop).
The charger is working fine under ...
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While playing game, laptop runs hot and randomly disconnects mouse and keyboard
I have a Dell Inspiron 7577 laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design running Windows 10, and I have my HDMI plugged in to an external monitor (which I wouldn't think is the problem), ...
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Windows Audio service not working
My audio stopped working recently. There were no particular events that could have prompted this (maybe an automatic OS update).
I'm running Windows 8.1 on a Dell Inspiron.
Initial error message
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Fix for frequent crashes on a dell 2-in-1 laptop
I have a Dell Inspiron 2-in-1 laptop.
Model: Dell Inspiron 13-5378.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500 CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.90GHz
Installed Memory: 8 GB
64-bit Windows 10, x64 based processor.
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Why Do I need Intel HD graphics with AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series
System : Dell Inspiron 5520
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2501 Mhz, 2 Core(s)
Graphic Driver 1: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Graphic Driver 2: AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series (1GB)
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Battery ran out of charge suddenly and won't charge
I've dell inspiron 5547 laptop and it was working fine till last night i used it. I didn't shut it down as I usually do and just closed the lid to let it go to hibernate or sleep mode, battery was ...
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Laptop not turning on,led blinks on and off
I have dell inspiron 3542. Yesterday while my laptop was plugged in with the charger it suddenly went off.
Then when I tried to turn it on the led light at the rear goes on, stays for 2 seconds and ...
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WiFi speed degraded upon clean installation of windows 10
I was using windows 8.1. Now i have installed windows 10 on my laptop. But i have found that everything is working fine but wifi. My router's internet speed is 10mbps. But my laptop speed is strictly ...
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Can't Delete/Edit Files on SD Card [duplicate]
I have a Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 5559) and I can't Edit/Delete from the sd card reader.
I've moved the readonly switch to both places, I've tried different cards and is the same, what could be wrong?...
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Hard Drive Not Detected Error When Swapping Drives
I have a Dell Inspiron 660 computer that's running 32 bit windows 10 and the motherboard fried.
I tried putting the hard drive which still works into a Dell optiplex 9020 and tried to start it up, ...
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Can I charge my inspiron 15 7000 using a lower wattage charger without frying the charger?
I would like to be able to play games on my insprion 15 7000 while on road trips, but it's power hungry and the car's cigarette lighters are 120 watt, so the 130 watt charger won't work. I was ...
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My laptop monitor shows a white and gray blend
I have to adjust the angle of the laptop screen, sometimes I have to completely close it and open. Here's a picture of how the screen looks like:
Can anyone tell me how to fix this before it gets ...
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Will my laptop memory stick (RAM) be still usable if its kept out for an extended period of time?
I have a dell inspiron 3558 laptop and an extra DDR3L physical memory stick which has been lying around for quite a long time (Probably a year or so) that was removed from another system (An all-in-...
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Why does my Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Series (7537) show no display on startup?
(Been having quite the number of problems with this laptop which is sad because it's honestly fantastic and I love it to bits, also hoping "questions" like this are okay on Superuser.)
I was recently ...
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Recovering Windows 10 using a pen drive
I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 (5579) laptop and it came with Windows 10 pre-installed on it. However, I want to install Ubuntu 16.04 on it. I cloned the recovery drive into my pen drive.
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SD card don't fit to card slot fully
Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series laptop, when I tried insert SD card in slot, it looks that SD card can't be physically inserted into the slot fully: it can be inserted only in half. Although SD card is ...
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Bought a new Dell laptop which appears to be a used one?
I bought a Dell laptop on 29 jan 2018, while I was using it for the first day I opened the C drive and saw that there is a tmp named folder which was modified on 26 jan 2018 meaning before date of ...
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How to change the display color of the screen on Windows 10?
This is the display color on Dell Latitude E5470 on Windows 7
whereas for Dell Inspiron 7000 series on Windows 10
The last one is a slight yellowish in color.
On the second machine, I want to have ...
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"MEMORY MANAGEMENT" error when running/installing Windows 10, boots into Linux fine
I have a Dell Inspiron 5559 laptop that I've had for a few years, dual-boot between Windows 10 and Linux Mint with no issues. I had to remove the hard drive for a test repair on someone else's ...
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Why the storage capacity limitation in laptops
As per the documentation for Dell Inspiron 5000 laptops, inspiron-15-5577, in page 15 it is mentioned that,
[Storage] Capacity [of the laptop is]
Hard drive
• Up to 1 TB (hard drive only)
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Change from windows 10 to windows XP or win7
ogether with greeting you, I wanted to ask you the following question. I was formatting a computer from the Inspiron 15 3000 that has windows 10 and I wanted to format it and pass it to windows XP, ...
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Improving Dell Desktop wifi range
I bought a new Dell Inspirion 3668 and noticed the wifi signal is very weak. It is only able to handle one tab while browsing at a time and is roughly 20 ft from the router. Is there anything that ...
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