Recent content by Mezmer32

My ISP often loses connection to its DNS server. Confirm i you are connected to the internet by opening cmd and type: ping 8.8.8.8 ping google.com if the 1st is successful and the 2nd fails, then you dont have a working DNS server configured. You can set the DNS on your PC if you configure a...

I FIXED IT!!!!! FOR FREEEEEE!!!! The problem got worse and worse... So i dealt with it a while longer until it started randomly going to sleep a LOT! sometimes i could play a game for 2 hours and sometimes it would give me 30 seconds inbetween 2 or 3 consecutive restarts. Also for the last...

yea i was afraid of that, its about £100 for a new board. Do you think thats whats causing the weird power button behavior?

hi, yes its a definite system beep, it starts before the dell splash screen shows up and i cant lower the volume etc. I didnt notice any difference in performance. You think maybe the cpu is done? I thought of that, but thought it couldnt be if it runs completely fine even while it beeps, im...

Hi, I've been fixing laptops for years but my own has me stumped. So before i start replacing stuff i'd like to know a few good places to start. the laptop has a few issues which could be important, its time for an upgrade anyway but i need it for at least another 3 months. So heres the details...