I bought a used 7010 Micro Plus on eBay, and it sounds like there's a mechanical hard drive in it. But it just has an nvme SSD. It's not the fan, or the speaker, or even the nvme.

I asked the seller about it and he replied:

"This coil whine noise has been common on many of the newer Dell/HP models. It is just the sounds of the electricity going through the coils on the board.

This is a standard noise that we typically see on mini computers, some high end laptops and also graphics cards."

Is this really normal?

Latitude E6540 died a few days ago so I salvaged my RAM, SSD, and batteries

Hi,

I have a Dell G16 7620 gaming laptop with a Dell WD19S docking station.

The G16's factory AC power cable is plugged directly into the laptop. The docking station is plugged into the laptop via USB-C and is supported by its own charging cable.

When I boot i receive this message. Ive read that the dock isnt technically "compatible" with this laptop, but other than charging, functionally it seems just fine.

If I dont care about the charging capability, is there any downside to using this dock? I want to make sure im not damaging the long term health of my laptop.

A quick Google search seems to indicate that the Dell charging infrastructure is intelligent enough to use the laptops own stronger AC power source when both are plugged in, but wanted to check with this sub for confirmation if thats true.

If not, any docks that can be used safely?

TYIA

I haven’t had any luck finding a new cable for this Dell Pro Dock WD25. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for a replacement one? Cheers 🤝🏻

I did a Windows update recently and now my laptop keeps giving me an “ERROR: Hard Drive — Not Installed” message every time I try to boot it up. It was working just fine 30 minutes ago, and then I shut it off to go out and check the mail, and now it can no longer detect the hard drive.

I attached pictures of my BIOS settings… Is anyone else experiencing this after updating, or is my hard drive legitimately messed up?

I am about to buy a Dell Precision T5810 workstation and want to add my normal DDR4 ram there. Does it work? I am afraid of buying one and then not being able to use the ram sticks that I have. The documentation tells about only being able to use RDIMM, but I saw that some users managed to just go with normal DDR4 ram (desktop). It is a bit of a mixed search results.

Hola a todos. Tengo un problema con una fuente de poder de una Dell OptiPlex 5080 (i5 de 10ª generación) y me gustaría saber si alguien ha pasado por algo similar o tiene alguna recomendación.

​El problema es el siguiente: al conectar el cable de alimentación a la corriente, el pequeño LED indicador de la fuente parpadea o enciende un instante y se apaga inmediatamente (parece entrar en modo de protección). El equipo no da señales de encendido.

​Lo que he observado/probado hasta ahora:

​La fuente no cuenta con un botón físico BIST de autoprueba tradicional, sino el indicador LED clásico de estos modelos compactos.

​Al conectarla, el LED amaga con encender pero se corta de inmediato.

​¿Creen que sea una falla directa en los circuitos de regulación internos de la fuente de poder, o es más probable que haya un cortocircuito en la tarjeta madre (motherboard) haciendo que la fuente se proteja?

​Agradezco de antemano cualquier consejo para seguir diagnosticándola correctamente.

So me and my buddy picked up 3 3040's to experiment with but we are facing issues on all that cause the pc to not show image.

The first one blinks 3 amber and then 1 amber. Indicating cmos failure, although it shall still boot. Second and third dont have any light showing although it draws current. We are feeding 5v through alligator cables. Is it the power, display cable or something else?

Only Time that i was able to boot was when jumping the cmos ( doing bios reset) . It never worked again. I suspect a bios setting not allowing video output but i cant change anything from bios.

Please help asap

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Hi everyone, I’ve had an XPS 13 for about a month. Earlier today I closed it for a second and opened it back up to find that what I think is some sort of dust or crumb has damaged the display when I closed it.

I did not get the Best Buy extended warranty, so Is there any way I can get this fix covered, since it seems dells warranty doesn’t cover physical damage? Extremely disappointing that an $1100 CAD laptop can fail in such a way

When I call up the integrated camera on my Inspiron 16 (5640) the windows says “Your camera might be covered” and suggest I ‘slide a shutter’, press a camera button on the keyboard’ or ‘slide a camera switch on your device. None of these are on model 5640. This began when I linked my Android phone to Windows. I made a vid call and the system defaulted to the phone camera with no facility to switch back to the integrated camera. I disable the link and the local option returned. Now, it is not available. If I link the 2 systems, the phone camera is an option and the local remains blocked. I totally removed the link and the local option has not returned.

I open the camera app on the laptop and the light beside the lens comes on, but system still says the camera is blocked.

I am at the end of my knowledge here. Any suggestions?

So this is my laptop:

Dell 15 Laptop 15-I1300-A30P, Intel Core i5-1334U, Linux Ubuntu | 15.6" FHD 120 Hz Anti-Glare Display, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, UHD Graphics, Wi-Fi 6, SD Card Reader, USB 3.2 Type-C

So here's my question: I wanna know If I can install 32GB of RAM in it. I asked Claude, and it said that the laptop couldn't handle it because the maximum would be 16GB, according to Dell's website. But my boyfriend insists that's nonsense and that you can actually install more than the stated maximum (he says he did it on his, which is an older-generation model than mine). I'd like to know if anyone with the same laptop managed to install 32GB, because I don't want to waste my money on two 16GB sticks for nothing 😭🙏

Hi all,

A bit of a general question/rant after the frustrations of dealing with dell/Alienware devices. The Area 51 16 is a premium laptop. However I’ve had a faulty screen and touchpad. Previous to this an x15 r2 had a faulty ssd. I have multiple red/blue light patterns flashing on my power key and multiple crashes on these devices. All devices developed these problems within 6 months of ownership.

My question is what is going on with dell’s quality control? These are some of the most expensive/premium laptops money can buy yet the reliability is poor.

To add to it, Dell’s contracted technicians seem very inexperienced with Alienware repairs and tend to cause more issues and damage when attempting to fix it.

Has anyone experienced the same? Are other manufacturers the same? I just want a reliable laptop that works.

Bought this 7577 for $300 with a i5 7300hq, 1060 max q, 32gb of ram, 500gb nvme storage and 1tb HDD. First it was thermal throttling and I get fps drops, Found a fix and here are the steps

1. Downgrade bios to 1.9.3 follow this step by step https://youtu.be/iqm_ohOLYXU?si=NJI90VjY6Qmq-mcg
2. Undervolt via throttle stop click FIVR, click unlock adjustable voltage offset, I put mine -115.2v
3. Download HWinfo 64, click on the fan icon change respin period to 501ms, spindown after 2secs

With this settings I can game for hours and max temp is below 80C no thermal throttling.

I recently bought a used XPS8930 to replace my old PC that I put together in 2016 (upgrade in performance and I wanted it to be quiter). But I didn't do my research, and I now have an even louder PC than my previous one!

Most threads I see to solve this issue talk about replacing the stock cooler with an Arctic 11LP, but it has been discontinued. Do you have pointers to a CPU cooler that is currently being sold that would fill my need? And if you have recommandations for case fans I'm also all ears.

Thanks in advance!

Dell 15 screen won’t turn on, I see these flashing lights, i have no idea what this means.

I have a Dell Latitude 5320 2-in-1 and im using a Dell Active Pen PN5122W the Pen is getting recognised by windows and works(sometimes) but i can't get it to connect to the Dell Display and Peripheral Manager.

Tried installing and uninstalling the Active Pen Driver (Wacom) doesn't change anything.

Also im getting fed up with the pen just randomly not working if anyone has a fix for that would also be helpful.

On top of that, sometimes when im trying to write something it's starts writing even tho im hovering over the sceen not touching it.

Edit: if there still isn't a fix for that, which i have read while trying to find a solution. Can someone recommend alternatives to my current Laptop. Thx.

Which of these is safe to remove. Ive alreay removed dell support assist x 2.

End users computer has a life of its own or freezes. I ran updates in backstage already.

Tengo una laptop del g15 la cual me está dando demasiados problemas , se crashea mucho a veces cuando quiero jugar el efootball solo me deja pasar del minuto 15 en el partido y se crashea y reproduce un sonido como si se desconectara algo , a veces estando en el escritorio sin hacer tareas exigentes , que puedo hacer ?