Unfortunately, it sounds like the hard drive itself may have failed. If that is the case, then recovering your data could be expensive, or even impossible. Connecting the drive to another computer...

Hi Babanath

My name is Jim, I'm with the Dell community outreach team. What model Dell monitor do you have?

Hello,

This is Richard from the Dell Online Community Outreach group. The previous poster "dez21" is correct that the motherboard has to have a CMOS battery to function properly. If it appears...

What sequence are the indicator lights flashing in? Usually they will flash in a certain sequence to display a code. If you can provide me with the sequence they are flashing in we can find out what...

Hi Dana,

My name is John, and I work at Dell headquarters as a support analyst. Sorry for the late reply, as I just found your post. I hope this reaches you.

It sounds to me like an unfortunate...

Awesome!!

Great to hear. Let us know if the wireless connection is working correctly now or not and we'll figure that out too if it isn't.

Thank you,

Todd
Customer Advocate
Dell, Inc.

The manual can be found here, if I am not mistaken:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/acc/P109356/en/intro.htm

Let me know if you need any other help.

John
Dell Customer Advocate

Hi,

There are normally two lights on the network cards. One simply shows that there is a connection being made, the other tells you how fast it's going. Here is a quick link that explains a bit...

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My name is Todd and I'm with Dell's online outreach program. What sort of wireless card are you using? One of the internal cards or a PC card that slides into the slot on the side of your...

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This is Richard from Dell's Online Community Outreach group. I read your post about how you where in the process of reinstalling Windows, but you did not have the Dell installation cd.
...

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My name is Todd and I'm with Dell's online outreach group. Did you check to see whether your system's BIOS is recognizing the drive? If you restart your system, hit the <F2> button when you...

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My name is Todd and I'm with Dell's onilne outreach program. What you may need to do is reset the BIOS in that system so it will re-read drives and hopefully locate the replacement hard...

Hi,

The backlight is just sort of what it sounds like, it lights up the screen from the back. If the amount of light is dim, but you can still see the data on the screen like it's not...

Hi,

I'm with Dell's online outreach program. I saw your post and thought I'd stop by to see if I can be of help.

When you were checking the power settings did you try to download the newest...

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This is Richard of Dell's Online Community Outreach. The Image Restore option (CTRL+F11) is not available for Latitude systems. To correct the current issue it would appear that a...

My group, Online Community Outreach is located in Round Rock, Texas.

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Richard B
Dell Online Community Outreach

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My name is John, and I work at Dell headquarters as a support analyst. I thought I might try to help you out, but given your situation, what I can provide is rather limited.

When a hard...

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This is Richard from Dell's Online Community Outreach group. It looks as though Windows itself has been compromised, or possibly the user account has become corrupted. The issue that you...

Hello,

This is Richard from Dell Online Community Outreach. This link...

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My name is Richard; I work for Dell's Online Community Outreach group. Forgetting your computer's bios password is not unusual, so we have a way to unlock that. What we need is the...

Hello,

This is Richard from Dell's Online Community Outreach group. I am curious about the 8000 no power issue. Try the following and report back the results.

Unplug the AC power adapter...

Hello,
This is Richard from Dell's Online Community Outreach group. What we would want to do is first determine if the computer's issue is hardware or software. If has been advised to check the...

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My name is Todd and I'm with Dell's online outreach team. You can download the Intel Chipset drivers (and all drivers for that matter) from our support site, http://support.Dell.com...

This is John from Dell headquarters.

Many problems like this are caused by an incompatible or corrupted program. In order to figure it out, I recommend following the steps in the following...

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This is Richard from Dell's Online Community Outreach group. I regret that I am coming in the tail end of this thread. It appears everything is working properly now.

The reason why I...

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My name is Todd and I'm part of Dell's online outreach program. The Dimension E310 came with integrated video and does not have a dedicated graphics card. If your system requires a specific...

Updating post.

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My name is Richard; I am part of Dell’s Online Community Outreach group. How long has this issue been occurring with your computer? Is there anything that was installed software or...

Hello,

My name is Richard; I am part of the Dell’s Online Community Outreach group here in Round Rock, Texas. Has the printer issue been resolved? If not, please reply back and add any other...

What model system do you have?

Paul,

Did you install the driver for this PCMCIA card, when the card was in or out of the slot? I would suggest uninstalling the driver in the add/remove programs, and then try to reinstall it...

Hello Paul,

It appear that this issue has not been resolved for you as of yet. Let’s start with the chipset driver. There is none as the driver is naively intergraded (supported) inside Windows...

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My name is Richard; I work for Dell's Online Community Outreach here in Round Rock, Texas. I wanted to post to your thread with some information that may assist you. If you go to this...

I’m with Dell's Online community outreach team offering support via forums and blogs. It sounds like you've narrowed it down to a thermal issue but if you still want to rule out other components you...

No problem. I would get the keyboard out of the way and reseat the LCD's ribbon cable. It's possible that the LCD is ok and the cable just somehow worked itself loose.

Worthinddave:

I’m at Dell Headquarters in Austin, Texas and I wanted to add to the thread. The previous post is correct that if the video is out and it's integrated then you’re in need of a...

First, if you haven't already found it you can get the service manual for the system on the Dell support website (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pblan/)...

From the sounds of it I would have said the inverter board was the problem. Since you replaced that with no change then it has to be the LCD panel itself (since the picture if fine using an external...

I’m at Dell Headquarters in Austin, Texas and I just came across this thread and thought I would comment. The easiest way to find out if the problem is the LCD or the video card/integrated vid/cable...

Hello,

My name is Mike, I’m a Dell Technical Analyst located at Dell corporate headquarters in Round Rock, TX. I'm part of an internet outreach team developed to interact with the online...