issues with my recent purchase of Dell Inspiron 15 3000 - 3543

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Hi Terry:

I have a Inspiron 15 3000 running W-8, disabled SpeedStep which slightly sped things up but not much.  I run a Logitech wireless keyboard and Trend Micro but otherwise it's a factory loaded/configured machine.  Any thoughts or is this just a slow machine?  Thanks for reading and in advance for any assistance.

hi

goto to advance power options under balanced power mode and change power button action from "sleep to shutdown"  for both on battery and on power modes.

This will help.

hi guys i think i found a fix

update your realtec sound drivers

since updating my soundcard my lappy hasent lagged yet

loaded much faster and feels over all faster

pitty my video card is still bad

the 2gig Nvidia dedicated card . why dosent dell just do like Acer and use a better video card and ignore Intels card

EDIT- well all was well thoughout the day now all the sudden the lag is back.

i wonder if its the hard drive or is my processor faulty. have run every single test and thing known too man.

i have tried every trick in the book am basically pulling what little hair i have left out.

what can we DOOOO DELL

I had similar issue with my Laptop (3543). I tried every possible way to trouble shoot the issue. Finally found the solution, the fix is to update the BIOS driver to the latest version. I am running windows 10 Home version and after updating the BIOS driver I did not experience any freezing or slow performance issue. There is no need of disabling SpeedStep or anything.

Kindly test and share your experience.

EDIT: The system performed well for a day and half, and the sudden freeze problem is back again. 

Dell please suggest solution!!!

I have had this laptop for 24 hours and been on in less than an hour and it continually freezes. I have disabled speedstep and still the same problem. If anything it has froze faster than before.

ive done a clean install of windows 10

installed all the drivers off the dell website and the new bios and still having issues

im going to buy a faster hdd soon because im wondering if its hdd related or if its the RAM or the intel chip itself

OR even the Nvidia card

when i run tests with the Nvidia all i can get is 11FPS

yet with the intel card i get a boat load more FPS cannot remember off top of my head right now but the Nvidia card is annoying

no matter what test i run i only get 11 to 13FPS

anyone else have issues with FPS on nvidia 2gig video cards?>

Hi,

Do you have same FPS results when machine is on charger and without it?

Because I've experienced that when machine runs on battery GPU core frequency is about 2 times less compared to values when it's on charger.
 Which gives half FPS values as well.

Hi this machine never leaves under the desk

its my media centre (tv and all)

so its never unplugged or battery never out and the FPS still bad

will run another test when i get home in a few hours and post the results.. actually

found the results from other day

just ignore the OS, it seems most that use it get that OS i think its a bug

https://i.imgur.com/a23joE0.jpg

thanks

also too prove i  have new bios

C:\WINDOWS\system32>wmic bios get smbiosbiosversion
SMBIOSBIOSVersion
A06 <-- notice A06 = new BIOS

noticed the dell reps are VERY quiet

anyways maybe its the SATA or the motherboard

i wish dell would get to the bottom of this issue

once and for all

why do we all have these issues???????????

I have the same weak WiFi issue with my Dell Inspiron 3543. I only had the laptop for 3 weeks now and the Wifi is very weak. It is 5 meters away from my router and has one bar signal. My pc in the same room but about 8 meters from the same router has full bar signal.

I already updated all the drivers for win 10 just now including the bios drivers and the wifi is still pathetic.

please help me terry,,, i bought the inspiron is15  3542 and sometimes it doesnt wake up...i have to press the turn off button twice for the laptop to begin and it starts like i have shut it down

Hi Terry

I bought my Dell Inspiron N3543 laptop on Tuesday.
It already had Windows 10 installed.

I am experiencing very slow and lagged performance (I think my old Dell Inspiron N5050 with an i3 might be faster).

I am also experiencing terrible wifi connectivity (won't hold the signal for more than a few minutes at a time and I sit about 8 feet from the wifi router) and flat poor quality audio output.

Disabling SpeedStep has made a difference to the performance though its still not as fast as I'd expect an i7 to be.

Wifi issue and audio output issues still exist.

i think dell knows there are issues. they just to cheap to do anything about it

terry left yonks ago by my guestimate

anyways im gonna buy an ssd and try that

ive been sent ram and a hdd and nothing changed my issues

plus they harassed me for days to get their stuff back

a multinational multimillion dollar company harassing me over 150 bucks worth of parts

that i only had for one day

it was clearly stated that i could have the parts ten working days and on the first day i was harassed for the parts that i replaced back. shows how good dell is

cant even understand the help desk

Thanks for the tip , but i have done most of that , i go http://www.dell.com/support/home/au/en/audhs1/product-support/product/inspiron-15-3543-laptop/drivers

and update all when they avaliable

will give ur sugestion a shot but i feel thats going backwards to go forwards.. thanks

i appreciate any awnser. and so would many others

:)