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External monitor is washed out with Intel HD Graphics
I recently bought a Dell XPS 15 with an Intel HD Graphics 530 installed.
Here is what my monitor should look like:
And this is what my monitor looks like when I say it is:
So this problem seems to ...
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Windows 10 Start Screen animation choppy on new Dell XPS
I just got a brand new, shiny XPS 15
(16GB / i7 / 4k / 512 SSD / Nvidia & Intel GPUS).
Something that annoys me a little bit though is that the start screen animation isn't smooth. It was damn ...
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Dell XPS 13 (9343) with SM961 NVMe SSD won't boot
My brand new M.2 NVMe SSD SM961 arrived today, and I decided to check if it improved the performance on my XPS 13. I know it'll probably be bottlenecked by the x2 PCI-E interface, but anyway. If I don'...
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Excel scrolling issues on second monitor [duplicate]
We're encountering scrolling issues with Excel 2013 (and 2016).
What we mean by that is graphic distortions (blocks of black) appearing on the worksheet during the scroll action.
It happens almost ...
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Windows 10 laptop changes brightness depending on the screen contents
I have a Dell XPS 13 (9350) running Windows 10 and I can't seem to disable the automatic brightness changing depending on what's on the screen. If the screen is primarily light the brightness will go ...
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Dell XPS laptop, black screen before boot, but screen test works
Tl;dr Upon powering up the laptop, the power light, screen backlight, and keyboard backlight power on, but nothing otherwise appears on the monitor (no mouse, no boot screen, nothing). I have reason ...
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Windows 10 activation on Dell laptops
Having a Windows 10 activation issue which I think is specific to Dell laptops.
Did a clean windows 10 install on my Dell XPS 15.
Under settings-Activation there is an error which says
Activation ...
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Strange "freezing" behaviour in Excel 2013 brand new XPS 13
I have a new XPS 13 with 16 GB mem, i7, windows 10 64bit and since I got it a few weeks ago I have been having the following very annoying problem.
At random times the excel GUI disappears, although ...
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Monitor problems under windows 10
I have an old Dell 3007WFP which only has DVI input. Previously, I was driving it via a mini-display port to display port chained to an active display port to dual link DVI converter, off a Dell XPS ...
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Giant system dialog font on Windows 10
A couple of examples which should be self-explanatory -
Notepad++
Visual Studio
The setup is an XPS13 (3200 x 1800) but the screenshots are from external monitors (2 x Dell U2414H 1920 x 1080) ...
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Dell XPS L720x (Windows 10) only permits two monitors
Here's my setup:
Dell XPS L702x (Late 2011)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 Graphics processor
NVIDIA GeForce 555M Graphics processor
One HDMI port, one MiniDP port
Windows 10 Enterprise N x64
Under Windows ...
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Upgrade to Windows 10: speaker volume is not as high as it used to be
I recently upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10 on my Dell XPS 13. It comes with the following audio devices and associated drivers:
I have version 6.0.1.7544 of the audio driver installed
The audio ...
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Windows 10 updating from Windows 7 via Windows update fail after 84%
I have Dell XPS-L502X(Early 2011) with Windows 7 Home Premium-64 bit. I already reserved my Windows 10 copy and started an update to it that was 2,712.6 MB and failed after 84%, it took for that 17 ...
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