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Re: Help! Just Received But Faulty DELL XPS 8500

Sorry for my ignorance. Used HDMI7 instead of HDMI11.Anyway, thank you.

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Re: Dimension 2400 Freezes

I have a similar problem. I did a HDD diagnostics and it told me there was a read error on the hard-drive. I replaced it and now I get the same problem. Upon freezing, none of the four lights are on. I...

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Re: XPS 8500 Windows 8 Pro. Suddenly shuts down for no reason

I tried 900 max for core clock and 1100 for memory clock using msi afterburner and still had a crash :( . It seems very random, can be playing a game for 10 minutes or 4 hours before an occurrence.

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Re: Inspiron 2320 Touch Screen stops working

Unfortunately, disabling hybrid sleep and turning hibernation off did not fix the problem. Touch screen continues to go on and off, on my Inspiron 2320, Windows 8. Most of the time the touch screen...

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New XPS 2710 Slows and Freezes

I have a 3 week old XPS 2710 All In One.  For first week, all was fine.  Then it would increasingly slow and freeze, so only way to recover was to hit power button for hard reboot.  Behavior repeated...

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Re: Connecting 5.25" floppy drive to Dell B110 desktop

Same issue here.  For some reason the Dell Bios won't recognize the drive as a 5.25, and only allows 3.5 as an option.  Once I get into XP, its still listed as a 3.25, and won't read 5.25 disks.  Very...

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Re: XPS 8500 Windows 8 Pro. Suddenly shuts down for no reason

I would use AMD Overdrive instead of msi afterburner, although I doubt it'll have much difference... I've got it clocked at 890mhz and it hasn't crashed since.

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Re: Inspiron one 2320 - touchscreen unresponsive

Unfortunately, my touch screen stopped working again. Still no solution.

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Dell Optiplex GX520 BIOS fails to load

Hi,I have a dell optiplex gx520 pc , its bios has failed to load. the loading bar at the splash screen says frozen so i can't even check the boot menu or enter the setup. I have removed the harddisk...

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Re: New XPS 2710 Slows and Freezes

Hi Wurlitzer165,Welcome to the Community.I would suggest you to perform Component test for hard drive and hard drive stress using Dell PC Diagnostics. Please click the link mentioned below to download...

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX520 BIOS fails to load

A failed bios upgrade usually requires a new motherboard. Explain how you were trying to upgrade the bios. Did you have a power failure or interruption? Which bios file did you use?

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Compatibilty question

Hello,I just bought an XPS 8500 which came with a  GTX 640 graphics card.  I bought the computer to trade and chart stocks across at least 4 monitors.  I was looking at the NVS 510 graphics card.  Does...

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Re: Buying second hand and warranty

You will have any remaining time left on the warranty, not the whole 3 years. Find out how much of the 3 years is left before you buy.

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX520 BIOS fails to load

Try removing the CMOS battery for a minute or so.

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX520 BIOS fails to load

I had a voltage fluctuation

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Re: Dell Optiplex GX520 BIOS fails to load

Yes I will try and tell what happened,rdunnil

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Re: Dell Inspiron 580 Processor Socket Type?

Hi malick4132, Socket H/LGA 1156 and Socket H2/LGA 1155 are two different socket types. LGA 1155 is designed as a replacement for the LGA 1156 (known as Socket H). LGA 1155 has 1155 protruding pins to...

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Re: New Dell XPS 8300 constantly Locking up.. help

Well I've had my dell pc for 15 months now, 3 months out of the warranty- and low and behold it starts freezing up and giving us a black screen. We tried everything in this monster forum, reinstalling...

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Re: New Dell XPS 8300 constantly Locking up.. help

Just an update. We pulled the Radeon card (5700 series) as well, thinking to just replace it. Attached the monitor to the onboard video, installed windows 8, and now within 15 minutes we are getting...

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Re: All in One, 2330

Hi tjw11,Glad to know the information was helpful. You may export the Favorites from your old computer (Internet Explorer) onto an external storage device (flash drive, micro SD) and Import the...

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