Recent content by Barhumbug

It could just be the mains connector in the laptop which may, or may not be, soldered directly to the motherboard. Either way it should be repairable, though its not a DIY job without some experience of dismantling laptops. Sounds like you'll need to take the laptop to a repair shop and get a...

Could be the contacts between your laptop and the battery. Remove the battery from your laptop and check the contacts in the laptop battery compartment are clean. Might be worth comparing them to your friends laptop?

Check the manual and see what the yellow light indicates. What is the actual model number of the laptop, web searches bring up loads of possibilities.

First you have to source the GPU chip. Then you have to accurately solder every pin into the board which I doubt is possible without precision soldering equipment and a decent microscope. It's not a slot-in socket like the processor chip. Then you have to fit cooling to the GPU chip which will...

Now you know why they sold it?

Can't get the link to work...

Glad to have helped.

Have you deleted the recovery partition on the hard drive? If not, you should be able to restore the pc by pressing F9 at boot.

He's your brother? $200 for that is too much - you'll get one of ebay for half that amount. Get him to GIVE you the laptop, then spend the money on a new battery!

Sounds like a decent enough spec for school work, and you don't really want to be carrying about a brand-new laptop around school just begging to be damaged or pinched? Suggest you spend $30 on a new battery and see how you get on. Yes you can put an SSD into it and it will make it run faster -...

Why not try re-installing Windows 7 first if you just want to speed up your laptop? If there are issues with drivers, bugs, malware or just too much software junk on the PC, a lot of this will remain after an upgrade to Windows 8. But yes, a full, fresh Windows 8 installation would speed up...

If the laptop thinks a key is being pressed when it boots, then that could stall it. Definitely sounds like a stuck or broken key - especially if the laptop works okay with the keyboard removed. Just replace the keyboard - loads on eBay.

Sounds more like software than hardware - how long since the last Windows re-install? Its certainly worth trying a factory reset before you go and replace it. - Back up all your personal data, browser bookmarks, emails, etc. - Run the Dell restore program (check manual or Dell website for...