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Re: help my inspiron 570 don't play or burn disc!!!
delluser3500
I have dell vostro 3500 series laptop with windows 7 OS. And I am facing some problems with . WHen I turn on my laptop ., I am getting the following error message " Reatek PCIe GBE family controller series v2.35(06/14/10) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM...
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12 May 2013
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Computer fails after upgrading HD firmware
OlivierB
Hi, I installed the recommended firmware update D2D5DEM1.zip on my Dell XPS laptop. I used the Windows GUI. As expected, the system rebooted but did not upgrade successfully the firmware. After a whole night of waiting, I shut down the computer and tried to restart, but the system is now saying...
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7 Mar 2013
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Dell Mini 1010 0200 Failed Fixed Drive Error
Pontiacrich
Hello all, While in an airport waiting for a flight back from a trip to Seattle, I was booting up my Dell Mini 1010 and received the above error. I googled the error and the most likely cause was cited as a loose HD cable. I hav opened my machine and reseated all cables and the hard drive...
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28 Jan 2013
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HDD failure
crusod
seems as though i have a complete failure wont even let me into safe mode i ran a diagnostic from boot menu (pre-boot system assessment build 4129) gave me error code 0146. though cant find out what the code means. i think the hdd should still be covered by warranty even though the pc is no longer...
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25 Dec 2012
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Clean Install with new hard drive
Chance.Barrett
My Dell inspiron 15r(N5110) laptop recently had a standing speaker fall on to it and shortly after the hard drive crashed. My laptop was no longer under any type of warranty so I decided to install a new seagate momentus 500gb 7200 rpm hard drive into it. I installed everything to best of my abilities...
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17 Dec 2012
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high hard disk activity .. slowing down of computer .
jhvxps
due to constant high hard disk activity my laptop has experienced general slow down (XPS L502X) ... even on doing nothing videos run with lag on any player , i have tried kmplayer , vlc , windows media player , gom player .. even the mp3 in windows media player lags little bit in start ... working in...
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21 Oct 2012
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Installing a Raid 0 on Studio XPS 7100
chrismed0
I bought a Studio XPS 7100 desktop back in 2010. I have the HDD go out in already and it came with a single 1tb HDD. I bought 2x 2TB HDD and was going to go ahead and install a raid 0. Problem is I can't seem to. It is an AMD board, AM3 with a Phenon II 6x core. The Model of the board is: Dell 0FF3FN...
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17 Oct 2012
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1 System OptiPlex GX60 Series of dell computer
Joy2012
My computer has problem: mary hard drive 1 not found; ondary hard disk drive 1 not found.
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17 Jul 2012
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XPS 420 Hard Drive swap and Win 7 Install
XPS420Hdd
Hello, I have been having some issues installing Win 7 Pro Upgrade 64-bit on a 'blank HDD' Recently, my primary hdd failed with Dell Diagnostics providing the following errors: (0F00:0232 Read Test Fail, 0F00:0432 Seek Test Fail, 0F00:1232 Smart Test Fail ...and so on). The drives were...
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25 Jan 2012
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Help! Data Recovery!
weswebb
Hello all, My laptop was working fine when suddenly it became very slow to access data one for a couple of days.Then the next day Win7 didn't load up. Now I can't even get the Dell BIOS screen up and running when I turn it on. Just a black screen (power is on though). I thought it...
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6 Nov 2011
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Migrating Dell HD to custom machine
randyc411
I just purchased a Ins 580 with WIN 7. I took the hard drive out and tried to use it in my custom game machine and it will not boot up. I tried the repair but it still won't boot. Long story as to why but both legal copies of Win XP and 7. So what do I have to change to get rid of the Dell hardware...
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29 Apr 2010
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