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Unknown Device - on PCI Bus - ACPI\SMO8800 / ~SMO8800 - IRQ 0x00000017 (23)
HiMy machine is a Dell Latitude E6320 and I am a Windows 7 user.I have one unknown device showing in my device manager. I have tried to update the driver but windows does not recognize it as well as I...
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I upgraded to windows 10 some time ago,my laptop is not running as I would like and I want to go back to windows 7 ( the month grace time has long gone). The factory restore option is no longer...
View ArticleAlienware Command Center Support for Windows 10?
Has anyone been able to get Alienware Command Center to operate in Windows 10?When I did the upgrade install it disappeared, I rolled back to Windows 7 due to major issues, hangs, and crashes related...
View ArticleREost product key for dell-inspiron N51110 laptop w windows 7 home basic OS
hi! i seem to have lost my product key...the label on bottom of the laptop is also torn so that i have last 5 chars missing from the key.....This is a dell Inspiraon N51110 laptop with Windows 7 home...
View ArticleUnable to Recover Dell Inspiron 14z Ultrabook to Factory Settings
Hello, I had purchased a Dell Inspiron 14z Ultrabook with Windows 8 pre-loaded on it. I have misplaced the manuals that came with the ultrabook and I now need to recover my hard disk back to it factory...
View Articledownload and reinstall widows 8 to my dell inspiron 15R
I had a problem with my windows 8 and i tried to repair and restore but it didn't work.I downloaded windows 8.1 from Microsoft website and i had to reset my windows.Now my windows is not activated and...
View ArticleNeed to go back to Windows 8 from a 10 upgrade
My friend has a laptop, a Dell Inspiron 15, 3000 series that came with Windows 8. She upgraded to Windows 10 a while ago and has had a lot of problems with it. She wants to go back to Windows 8 and I...
View ArticleDell Backup & Recovery create Rescue Disk: ERROR: "An Error occurred...
I havethe latest version of Dell Backup & Recovery and have tried several times to create Rescue Disk. The software correctly finds my external USB drive but each time I start the process, I...
View ArticleClean installation of Windows 10 stuck on formatting partition [Inspiron 5558]
I am trying to do clean installation of windows 10 on my dell Inspiron 15 5558 laptop. However, during partition formatting step, windows 10 setup stuck and do not proceed. If I do not select the disk...
View ArticleDowngrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7?
I have a Dell Inspiron 15 3558 laptop. Is there any way that I can downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 7? I can get an install disk, but I'm not sure if the drivers for this will support it. Thanks!
View ArticleReinstall Window XP- Product Activation
Reinstall Window Xp from CD and was unable to login in to Window after activation. I found a way to login but still show i had 30 days to activate Window. Call Microsoft and they validate that my...
View ArticleHelp with reformatted PC
Hi there,I'm new to these forums. I've had a Dell Desktop Vista PC for many years without problem and never needed to ask for any help. However, now that I am preparing my old PC for passing on, I...
View ArticleXPS8500 - Windows 8.1 installation / Cannot retrieve SLP key
Hello everybody, The installation procedure provided in this site says :"Look at the product ID at the bottom and see if the product ID mentions the words OEM. If the license is OEM then your product...
View ArticleDell Factory Windows 10 Recovery DVD
I wanted to upgrade my hard drive and couldn't because the dell windows 10 OEM media DVD wont reinstall.. Why is that? I had to put the OEM hard drive back in the PC because the dell windows 10 media...
View ArticleInstall Windows 7 on Dell XPS 8910 and Aurora R5
Hello guysI desperatly need your help. I'm tryng to downgrade some workstation XPS 8910 and Aurora R5 from Windows 10 to Windows 7.Unfortunaly we can't use yet Windows 10 and i have a lot of problem...
View ArticleClean installation of Windows 10 stuck on formatting partition [Inspiron 5558]
I am trying to do clean installation of windows 10 on my dell Inspiron 15 5558 laptop. However, during partition formatting step, windows 10 setup stuck and do not proceed. If I do not select the disk...
View ArticleLatitudes e6400 and Windows 10
Will Dell be adding support for Windows 10 to the e6400s Latitude series laptops? As of right now Windows 10 is not listed as a compatible operating system for my computer so, I have no bluetooth...
View ArticleCan you re-install Windows after upgrades from 7 to 10?
I got an XPS 15 3 years ago. I think it had Windows 7 at the time so I've had it install every upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10.Lately it's become ridiculously slow - taking 30 seconds or more to...
View ArticlePre-installed windows with Dell
Dear Community MembersGreetings. The Dell Laptop I purchased with pre-installed Windows 7 has product key pasted beneath the laptop. I would like to install a fresh windows copy due to some database...
View ArticleOS installation on a new harddrive
I got the error code while running diagnostictest2000-0151validation 109663 incorrect status =32than I got2000-1042 validation 79093I bought a drive, installed it, started to load from supplied disk...
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