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I have a new 2021 Dell Precision 5550 laptop (basically a beefed up XPS 15) on which I wanted to use an Apple Magic Mouse. It's no problem adding the mouse as a Bluetooth device under Windows 10, but I discovered that I lost the scrolling functionality when doing so. You can pay a yearly fee for sof

My Windows 10 Inspiron laptop is running very slow. When viewing Task Manager I noticed that Dell Data Manager is using ~70% CPU consistently.  What is this service and can it be disabled without affecting the system's operation and/or performance?

We have a not very old Optiplex 3060 with a power led flashing twice amber then seven times amber. Service tag SERVICE CODE, no internal leds are on. the power appears to be going to the board, cpu / case fans spinning. I've googled the led flashing twice...then 7 times and can't find what th

Need driver for unknown device ACPI\SMO8800\1 for DELL Laptop

This laptop is frustrating the    Code of Conduct  policy which you agreed to when joining. DELL-Admin> out of me, it isn't even 5 months old I paid $1200 for this which I think is a pretty expensive price for a laptop that runs slower than the one I was replacing (8yr old Toshiba

Hello, I've been recently following the Intel instability issue for some time now. I noticed last week some brands were releasing BIOS updates for their boards with the microcode update 0x129 that was supposed to fix the voltage bug in the chips. I noticed Dell also released a new Aurora R16 BIOS up

Hi, what should I do to automate drivers' update for R320 servers? These are not indicate in any catalogue accsessible in the repository tool. All drivers are properly listed with the service tag on "product support" site. Any clue how to do it? 

Hey people, I'm a bit mortified here. I went to add 5 new drives to my RAID6 virtual disk, but when I went to start the operation, I realised that I selected RAID0 instead of RAID6 when reconfiguring. I, after around 90 seconds of frantic searching on how to abort the operation, found here that I c

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Hello, we have poweredge R440 with h730 raid controller. Currently we are using only standard sata drives but i would want to install m2 drives and create raid 1 with 2 disks. Is this possible in this model or i am stuck with sata ssd and sas drives?

Hi, My XPS 8930 has been very fast booting from the time I bought it in late 2018. Booting got a lot slower after recent BIOS update -- surely to 1.1.18 but possibly starting with the earlier version. More details: 1. For many years and on several XPS desktops, I've had the Power Options > AC

Hi folks I've ordered the 8950 which I'm looking forward to getting. It'll really help me with video editing. However what I've read about how hot it gets is scaring me a bit and I've done a lot of looking around to see what my options are.  It seems I'm better off with a liquid cooling fan

Hi Can we order ME5084 with 84 hard drives installed inside?? is it safe to do so? Each hard drive is 3.5 inch which weighs around 800g. I worry that 84 of those drives could damage ME5084 while delivering it abroad, i.e. during shipping. But at the same time, I want drives to be installed by DELL.

Dear community, I have a Dell Latitude 5401 laptop. The battery is 3HWPP, 68Wh, 15.2V. In Dell Power Manager, the battery condition is medium (2 out of 4 dots). If I run a report via cmd powercfg/batteryreport, the design capacity is 68005 mWh, and the full charge capacity is only 32619 mWh. Does it

Hi all, I need urgent help. I bought PER7515 12BAY 3,5 inch server and two drives NVME 1,9TB and controller P740 ,and as I see backplane is RDRTM (google says from PER740 or XD) but that is not the issue, issue is I cannot find correct cables to connect backplane and and motherboard to see those d

Hello, I want to upgrade my Optiplex 790 SFF with a Core i7 processor. I search for a Core i7-2600, but I only get 2600K's. Is the i7-2600K supported in the Optiplex 790, and if not, can I find a list for supported processors?

I have a Dell Inspiron G7 with 16GB 2666 MHz RAM. Would I be able to upgrade it to 32GB 3200MHz or would it not work?

Hi everyone, I have an ME5024 array with 12x Samsung PM1643a RI Series disks (Model number: MZILT960HBHQ0D3) They are currently on firmware DSA3. I believe DSA4 has been available for some time but I am unable to find this. There is an update within  A31_ME_Series_HDD_Firmware_with_ReadMe.zi

Inspiron 20 3043 AIO does not detect an external monitor connected using the HDMI port. I tried everything I could find about this but nothing works.

Just purchased a Inspiron 3891 with 8MB RAM, thought that I may want to increase the RAM to 16MB so I checked the part number and guess what? Nobody at Dell can idetify it and Samsung say its not listed, so how on earth did it get in a new machine?? Any ideas anybody what I can do about getting ano