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My Dell laptop overheated after I installed Debian squeeze on esata drive

I've been running Ubuntu on my 1 y/o Dell Lattitude laptop. Today I installed Debian squeeze and xen-4.0 on it and was surprised to see it cut out. When I rebooted a bios message told me it had ...
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Secondary monitor won't display at full resolution with primary display disconnected

The LCD display on my Dell E6500 notebook failed. It had been working with a secondary monitor connected through a VGA cable at 1600x900 resolution until I removed the LCD from my notebook for repair....
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How to determine if laptop motherboard is dead

My laptop Dell Latitude E5530 just suddenly stopped working. 2 days ago I turned it off (put it in sleep mode) and yesterday afternoon when I went to turn it on I get a black screen. First thing ...
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Dell Latitude touchpad not working

The Situation: About two hours ago, I spilled water on the touchpad of my Dell Latitude. Usually, when this happens, I dry it with a towel and it starts working again. However, this time, it seems to ...
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Dell E7440 CPU frequency does not rise above 1GHz

I had notice a strange problem on my Dell Latitude E7440. Sometimes the CPU frequency never goes above 1.0 GHz (even when running some cpu intensive program, such as MATLAB), and the computer runs ...
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Dell E5450 - mSATA not found by BIOS but is by Linux Live CD

I have a Dell Latitude E5450 with a 128GB mSATA drive, which has been working fine for 3 months. I have the latest firmware for the BIOS (A10). I have Fedora 22 installed on this disk and have had ...
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Laptop won't boot more than a half second when the HDD drive cable is connected

I have a Dell Latitude e5570 and when I got it, all it was missing was a HDD drive cable (the cable in the bottom that connects the hard drive to the motherboard) The image shows the HDD cable ...
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Windows 10 on my Dell 7410 keeps locking itself when im idle for a few minutes

After about a minute, the screen dims, and another minute later the screen locks itself. This happens even while i am in a meeting or watching a video when im not moving my mouse. All while the laptop ...
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Remove stuck ethernet cable tab that has gone through the top of the port

The ethernet cable tab has actually gone through the top of the port, making it impossible to remove the cord without damaging the port/laptop. In the picture, note the metal pieces at the top of the ...
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CPU upgrade on a Dell Latitude E6400 results in in a dead system

I have recently bought a Core 2 Duo T9900 for my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, after having read the following Dell community thread. Unfortunately, I obtain a blank screen after pressing the power ...
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SIM card slot in a Dell Latitude 5590 doesn’t work as expected

I have Dell Latitude 5590 which has a SIM card slot. When I run mbn show interface It returns this: “There is no Mobile Broadband interface” Any idea how to config the SIM card slot in a Dell ...
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My battery is stuck at 43%

I have a Dell Latitude D430 and the battery is stuck at 43%, even though it's been plugged in for days. It runs on batteries fine, and then recharges back to 43% only. I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed.
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Enable bluetooth on Dell Latitude E5450 laptop

I have Linux and Windows 10 installed on my laptop. Linux sees my Bluetooth device, however I can't find one under Windows. I am trying to solve problem with Dell Command Update It downloads ...
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Is it possible to override Intel 4000 2-display limit?

Intel's drivers don't allow using more than two displays (laptop +1 external, or 2 external and no laptop display), though we have some docks that use DisplayLink software that overrides this and ...
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Laptop Keyboard

I have a dell latitude E6420 and it was working fine until last month I encountered a very strange problem. My laptop's keyboard stops working as soon as I exit the bios startup screen. Like, I can ...
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