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For the past 6 weeks I have had nothing but problems with my Inspiron 7586 2in1. Purchased a year ago, the issues started in November with the touchpad and cursor disappearing. After little fixes (find drivers, etc), I decided to go the restore to factory settings route. That began the downfall. Fo

My Windows 10 Inspiron laptop is running very slow. When viewing Task Manager I noticed that Dell Data Manager is using ~70% CPU consistently.  What is this service and can it be disabled without affecting the system's operation and/or performance?

Today, I update 7760 with BIOS v1.10.1. First, I download and excute .exe file, but get error message "Unable to lauch UI module". Then, I download and save .rcv file into a USB key and perform following steps, shutdown, unplug the power cable, press ESC and Ctrl simultaneously, plug the power cable

Dear sirs, kindly advice me about how to solve the Start Up issue of Inspiron 15 756 Model. While Power On button pressed, Battery light LED Blinks in the format like 3 times in Amber color and 5 times in White color. Then found, for Start Up, i need to plug charger with Laptop and Press the power

Need driver for unknown device ACPI\SMO8800\1 for DELL Laptop

This laptop is frustrating the    Code of Conduct  policy which you agreed to when joining. DELL-Admin> out of me, it isn't even 5 months old I paid $1200 for this which I think is a pretty expensive price for a laptop that runs slower than the one I was replacing (8yr old Toshiba

I downloaded and installed Dell updates on my new laptop, hit restart, and the dots keep circling and won’t restart for over 2 hours. I can’t shut it down and it won’t complete the restart process. What do I do? Thank you

Hey folks, I've read a bunch of threads about XPS touchpad issues, but it seems like most of them were fixed by a firmware update, which mine was not. Every time I stop using the touchpad for about a second or so, the touchpad then becomes unresponsive when I try to use it again. If I keep running

Hi, I have a large number of service tags. Is there an easy way to enter multiple service tags to check the warranty status on all of my hardware? Thanks,Paul

We have a not very old Optiplex 3060 with a power led flashing twice amber then seven times amber. Service tag SERVICE CODE, no internal leds are on. the power appears to be going to the board, cpu / case fans spinning. I've googled the led flashing twice...then 7 times and can't find what th

Ok, I got one that has me stumped. At some point, I turned off Bluetooth, Using Samsung Buds you have to turn off Bluetooth on nearby devices, to get them to log on the device you want to use them with. So now I am noticing that Bluetooth is turned off and I can't seem to find any button or switch

I have a new 2021 Dell Precision 5550 laptop (basically a beefed up XPS 15) on which I wanted to use an Apple Magic Mouse. It's no problem adding the mouse as a Bluetooth device under Windows 10, but I discovered that I lost the scrolling functionality when doing so. You can pay a yearly fee for sof

Hello, I tried to update the firmware of my U4021QW from my Apple MBP M1, but it fails after ~1 min with no clear explanation. The utility reports "Update error. See Help for step by step instructions to retry update" I followed the instructions several times, but with no success (disconnect ever

After my System received the latest BIOS Update - Version 1.26 - both the Touch Pad and the Bluetooth Mouse I'm using freeze repeatedly. The freezes are between one second and 10 seconds. Work is not possible. Here's what I did to try and solve the issue: 1) Updating all drivers - didn't work 2) Re

I have a Dell Inspiron G7 with 16GB 2666 MHz RAM. Would I be able to upgrade it to 32GB 3200MHz or would it not work?

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I was excited about the new Resizable BAR support for the RTX 3000 cards, but when I checked the available updates. Only the 3060Ti, 3080 and 3090 have Resizable BAR support, the 3070 seems to be missing? The RTX 3060Ti update is mislabeled as RTX 3070 VBIOS update? Is Resizable BAR support for the

Hi, I would like to set the iGPU as the default GPU. As you can see from the image (my apologies for the Italian languages), there are many Windows processes that use the dGPU (System, Desktop Windows Manager, Runtime client-server process and the Windows Host Shell experience). I have updated the

The m16 R1 is a best, theoretically. However, due to some wild graphics issues under Windows, I've had to switch to Linux. Specifically Arch Linux as Ubuntu was NOT working. 1) OpenRGB and AlienFX are unable to control the LED colors and zones on the keyboard. How long until those projects are provi

Today, my U4919DW started to flicker quite severely. When the flickers starts it shows severe moire and some ghost icons popping up. This is the second time this happened, but unfortunately everything I tried before to fix it, doesn't work anymore: factory resetting, completely unplugging it from po