My sister's laptop (Dell Inspiron 15 Intel N5050) turned on with a black screen today that said "Windows Error Recovery, Launch Startup Repair (recommended)". It then goes to the "windows is loading files..." screen. After that, the screen that shows a bar with green lines. And...

"We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files." Getting this error while installing windows 7 & 8 on my dell insp4010 laptop.. what i do ...? I changed SATA modes (AHCI & ATA) in bios , removed external drives SD...

Hi Guys! Today is my time for the little story, I am not a native English speaker but I will try my best. I purchased dell Inspiron 14z model 5423 some time ago, It has Windows 8 on It, I never used it before so I realised that it's better to use something that I know, at list a little bit...

Hello! (not too sure if it's a video card only problem, so I posted it here... if it does seem appropriate for the video forum, please feel free to move) Over 1 and 1/2 years ago my Dell XPS M1730 started to play up big time... blue screen, NMI memory parity error...very frequently after...

I have a dell studio 1558, with intel i5 and 6GB RAM I am unable to turn on the laptop. The adapter is connected and the battery is charged. But, when i press the power button, nothing happens. I have tried some basic troubleshooting. Remove Battery, connect adapter. Remove adapter, connect...

Hallo Community, first of all, my English isn't very good, so don't blame me for my writing style... Here is my Problem: 1) Nearly everytime I start up my M17x-R2 the screen won't light up, but the Keyboard lights up. The Fan for the graphic card runs on high speed and that's...

Hi Im running a Dell Latitude D630 Laptop Some specs: -4GB RAM preinstalled -Used to run on Windows XP professional x86 -Now runs on Windows 7 Ultimate x86 -Intel Centrino Duo -BIOS Revision A18 Lately I've transferred to Australia and currently live here, I used to live...

Hi there, I'm facing a weird problem. My dell 1464 just hangs & restarts when I try to boot from any USB/ optical drive. Windows states a file is missing. So, I tried to install genuine version of windows 8. But still not succeeded. Then I tried with windows 7, same problem was present there...

I have been having a lot of issues with my Precision M4700 stalling during boot, directly on the display of the Windows logo so I am attempting to reinstall, btw there are serious issues with recovery mode but that is another issue. My system is English spec but was bought in Germany so I have a German...

Hi ejn63 and Roshan, I have checked the setup and HDD is identified and is listed there. I have tried disabling all boot options except HDD and it is still not booting up , though it is not displaying PXE-E61 and PXE-M0F error anymore but asking for alternate boot media. So it looks like HDD...

Hi Roshan, Thanks for the prompt reply and suggestion. I tried it out and below are the details: ==================================================================== Pressed F12 - I didn't see the option "Diagnostics" so I ran the PSA+ (Pre-boot System Assessment build 4127...

I have XPS 14 (with Windows 7 64 bits) since last 2 yrs. Recently I faced this issue. When I turn it on, it shows the Dell logo screen and then shows either of these 2 messages: 1. To insert media to boot 2. at time it shows - Disk Read error Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to recovery I tried booting...

There's some background info I should provide to give a clearer picture, so bare with me. I decided to change the original 750gb hdd for a crucial 128gb SSD. I looked up a video on YouTube on how to change the Hdd on the 3550, so that I knew exactly what I was doing. I was able to change the hdd...

Hi All, new to this forum. My girlfriends Inspiron 15R N5110 has an unknown problem. Backstory: It was purchased new about 2 years ago and has had slight problems with the track pad and an awful network connection (both wireless and ethernet). Recent: It came down with a pretty bad browser hijacker...

Hi I am having a major issue with my Dell XPS L702x laptop at the moment, in that it cannot boot up at all, rendering it completely unusable. When this first happened, the laptop used to progress through the dell screen, the 'starting windows' screen, and then just hang at a blank screen...

I AM NOT ABLE TO USE MY MINI LAPTOP DUE TO AN SOFTWARE ISSUE. FIRST I GOT THE ERROR CODE: 0XC0000034-WHICH THEY SAID WAS A SOFTWARE ISSUE. AND WANT 100.00 TO HELP. currently my screen reads: warning the battery can not be identified your syustem will be unable to charge this battery. i have...

My laptop will not turn on at all. The only 'signs of life' I get is the power button and the first of the laptop lights turning on for the briefest fraction of a second when I attempt turning it on (this itself only happens some of the time, not always). Possible causes? Throughout Sunday...

OK i have a dell xps17 (l702x) laptop recently had a problem with it , that is it wouldn't start up and when i turn it on after 2 seconds it would just crash , so i changed the motherboard , processor and and it fixed the problem to some extent .. now my problem is i that when i turn on it loads...

I have a Inspiron 5010 that I had to restore to factory settings, and WHAT A MESS I HAVE HAD. First of all, I restored to factory, and windows update is all screwy so I had to manually keep updating the software for a couple days until it said no more updates, and even then there were still many cases...

Hi, My Inspiron crashes continually. I have run various diagnostics. When I view the event log it has dozens of the dreaded "windows has shut down unexpectedly" Critical - Kernel Power (41) error. When the system runs it's own test via F12 boot diagnostics, the hard drive fails and...

Hi, my Dell laptop wont start up. I would turn it on and it would go to windows logo screen and then go black. I tried the system recovery and then it says insert the instalation media for the device and click ok to select the driver. I dont have a cd and all the drivers I use are not being recognized...

I need some assistance. My wife has an Inspiron Mini 10 which I damaged seeing if I could upgrade the RAM. So I bought another mobo and fitted it in, plugged it in and turned it on. After so long we were told that the battery was running low and wouldn't charge. After it shut down we got the OLOD...

I have a Dell XPS 14 Ultrabook with Intel i7 core, 8 gb RAM and i installed the System BIOS for my laptop from the Dell website, under "Drivers & Downloads" after typing my service tag. So im sure it was for my laptop and it downloaded and installed properly. But after the installation...

Recently, I fixed my computer from a virus, and now whenever I turn on my laptop, it won't startup. I am most definitely certain that the startup program isn't on. As a noob I am, please tell me all steps specifically as to activate the program, or download a new one, or whatever. Just please...

The problem is with an N5110 that I recently replaced the motherboard and the CPU (I7-2630qm) in hopes that I'd revive this old boy. After replacing the motherboard I got 7 beeps no screen. Knew that was CPU failure so I purchased a new one and replaced it. Now I'm not getting any error codes...