When i discovered my dear old computer again i couldn't find the original charger
I know Dell are a little fussy with chargers i used one from another laptop that powered the laptop but would not charge the battery had the orange light flashing, now when i took it to the computer shop i asked him if he could plug a charger in to the laptop but he didn't have a dell charger at hand i said you buy one for me so you can update it for me.
i did some searching and it seams as though you need a charge of at least 10% charge in the battery for it to update the bios, so i'm wondering weather they did in fact t charge the battery
middlelifecrisis
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January 25th, 2020 13:00
The model is N5010 i3 processor
U2CAMEB4ME
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January 25th, 2020 14:00
Welcome to the Dell Community @middlelifecrisis
There should be no reason that laptop should not run the latest version of W10!!!
In fact it should have no problem with updates for the next 5-10 years.
Have you tried to do a fresh W10 install???
Download the latest W10 media.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Set the BIOS Hard Drive configuration to "AHCI"
Insert W10 USB power-on and start tapping the " F12 " key.
Boot USB and follow instructions to install W10.
Best regards,
U2
middlelifecrisis
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January 25th, 2020 15:00
u2
Thanks for your reply
When i discovered my dear old computer again i couldn't find the original charger
I know Dell are a little fussy with chargers i used one from another laptop that powered the laptop but would not charge the battery had the orange light flashing, now when i took it to the computer shop i asked him if he could plug a charger in to the laptop but he didn't have a dell charger at hand i said you buy one for me so you can update it for me.
i did some searching and it seams as though you need a charge of at least 10% charge in the battery for it to update the bios, so i'm wondering weather they did in fact t charge the battery
i will find out when i pick it up on Monday
Malcolm