Recent content by StealthParade

Also it does his in the bios.

could it be that the battery is so dead that it wont even let enough power pass through?

Yeah just select usb boot. it will start it through that on boot up. Prime95 is a great program to test your cpu. good luck :P

Yeah I don't think the hard drive could be the cause of the problem. From what your saying it sounds like it is either something with the cpu or ram. My suggestion would be to download memtest http://www.memtest86.com/ on a USB and run that on start-up. After that i would get a stress like...

It could be something with the components, do you have any specs? Try to open the task manager to see how much.ram, CPU, etc is being used

I agree with the previous post. The i3 isn't very powerful I think the fact that it has a touchscreen would not push it over the I5 considering the will both have the same integrated graphics I'm sure. The i5 will be good for Photoshop an browsing and whatnot but the i3 might have trouble with...

Hey there! I agree with the post above, windows will slow things down to conserve your battery life. A great way to optimize your laptop would be using razer game booster. This sets up a power plan that will have all your things running peak performance, it will also make sure you have ram to...

Hey maxwellmelon, So far what I discovered was the power connector got disconnected. The CPU is compatible, the original was a first gen i5 ram works in it and so does the ssd. The. Thee laptop booted no problem but the battery is shot. Now I have it plugged into the wall, and it shuts off...

I have a dell studio 14z that i was given for free that was missing a hdd, ram, and a bad cpu. I got 8gb ddr3 ram and i7 820m and a intel 520 solid state drive. at first i was getting the bad cpu/processor beep code (7 beeps).When I put the new cpu/processor in and it was still getting 7 beeps...