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dark screen on dell latitude D520
I have Dell Latitude D520 (for 3 years)
and my screen is dark.
I try to set to maximum and still dark.
Is the screen broken? Is it fixable?
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Dell D630 speaker/microphone->headset jack converter?
The Dell D630 has two seperate 3.5mm microphone/speaker jacks. I know there has to be an adapter to fit a combined 4-pole 3.5mm plug for a headset, yes?
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Internet Explorer/Explorer.exe hang on Laptop when off Dock
I have a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop running Windows XP SP3 for work. It is a PITA to reboot due to increased security (card scanner and other physical security on each boot) and I am required to take ...
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How do I keep my Dell computer from freezing Windows 7 when I redock?
Whenever I hot dock my laptop, the laptop freezes. If I put it to sleep or hibernate this doesn't happen. I'm running Windows 7 on a Dell E6500. Any ideas what I can do to avoid having the lockup ...
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Dell e4300 Random Beeps
I’ve noticed that my Dell e4300 Laptop will randomly beep every now and then. The symptoms are virtually identical to the issue described here: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/...
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Dell Latitude D520 restarts spontaneously
I have a 2 year old Dell D520. In the last 2 months it is randomly restarting. After hours of calls with Dell support, they claim this is a software issue. Their hardware diagnostics tool marked all ...
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Dell Inspiron 6400 indicates the wrong power adapter is plugged in and will not charge the battery
I am using the original power adapter with the Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop and now when it boots up I get the following error message.
The AC power adapter type cannot be determined. You system will ...
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Screen on Dell Latitude D520 is darker than normal
I think that the screen on my Dell Latitude D520 looks a little darker than normal. I've tried to set the screen to the maximum brightness with Fn+Up.
Is there another way to make the screen brighter?...
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DBAN fails on brand new laptop. What's wrong?
I just got a few new Dell Latitude E5500 laptops. I'm trying to wipe their hard drives using DBAN 1.0.7.
DBAN boots up, I type zero at the prompt, and it gets to the "loading dwipe" part ...
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Dell Latitude E5500 - Cannot change boot order with keyboard, must use touchpad
We just bought a few Latitude E5550 laptops. I wanted to boot from an installation CD, so I had to change the boot order.
Instead of being a text-based BIOS configuration that is easy to navigate ...
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fan doesn't spin
I have a dell latitude 820. The fan was blocked for a while, after removing the crap (hair, etc.) the fan didn't work anymore. I tested the fan, but that part was OK. So I think the fan controller is ...
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Getting spurious undo (Ctrl+Z) sent randomly on a Dell laptop
For the past couple of weeks, my laptop has had a strange problem where it looks like Ctrl+Z is pressed, so I usually lose bits of text I've just typed. If I redo by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Z, the text ...
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Dell D630 light sensor and backlight in Windows 7
Is there a way to make Windows 7 aware of the light sensor built in the laptop? Also, there doesn't seem to be any way to control the backlight of the LCD from the OS (only the Fn + Up/Down key work). ...
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