Category Archives: Dell

Sleep mode failing on Dell Vostro 200

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Jack

This was strange occurrence. I did a fresh install of Windows 7 and every time it went to sleep, when I went to wake it up, the case fan would whirl up at full throttle and stay on, the screen … Continue reading →

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NVidia Video Card error

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Jack

I had a Dell Latitude E6510 laptop and the screen would randomly freeze up, flicker to black and then the video display restored. Windows would display the following error: in the tray and I would need to close and restart … Continue reading →

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SATA 2 and 3 not working on a Dell Inspiron

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Jack

Recently I went to install a second hard drive into a Dell Inspiron 531. It currently had an existing hard drive and DVD drive already installed on SATA 0 and SATA 1. I figured simple enough, add a SATA cable … Continue reading →

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