Recent content by Stekker

Aaand it's back to not working again, so it appears the above didn't help. I think I might have figured out what's going on though, but I have no idea why. Under power management>advanced>processor power management> maximum processor state>on battery: If set to 99% the laptop functions, I did a...

Worked after a bit of tinkering; it appeared that some thermal shut-downs coincided with the battery change. After noticing this I throttled the CPU back to 60% and cooling to active (both in the power plan settings,under advanced) and it worked. Just out of curiosity, do you think the...

Hi again, Quick question: Does this work in safe mode as well? Because I can't do this with a normal boot as it cuts the power shortly after I pull the charger. I'm just trying to avoid waiting for hours without result ;)

Thanks! I'll get right on it.

Hello! Recently I noticed that my laptop battery was reaching the end of it's usable life, so thinking ahead I ordered a new (non-dell) one. After receiving and replacing the battery all seemed well, I ran the on-board Dell diagnostic and it stated that the battery health was 100% Yay! The sun...