If you want to take apart a Dell laptop you can find very clear step-by-step laptop service manuals on Dell website. Here is the link where you can view or download service manuals for the below listed laptops. You can search Dell database by a service tag located on the bottom of your laptop or by the product model. Dell has changed the website, and now it’s even easier to find a manual you need, just click on Manuals link and select your system. Dell offers laptop service manuals in many languages in HTML and PDF formats.
You’ll find a lot of spare parts for Dell laptops here.
You will find service manuals for the following Dell Inspiron, XPS and Latitude laptops.
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Dell Inspiron 5150 |
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Dell Latitude 100L |
Dell Latitude D500 |
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August 27th, 2008 at 4:42 am
i am experiencing a problem and i am not being able to fix it yet.
i am unable to install VGA driver for my DELL LATITUDE C540.
pls need assistance,,,,,,
aamirkhan_84@hotmail.com
August 25th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Jesse Vang,
1. Connect the external monitor, load XP and then try using Fn+F8 keys. Hold down Fn and press F8, it should switch video from internal to external.
2. Boot your laptop to the desktop and then go to the display properties. Enable the second monitor in there.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:41 am
I have a dell inspiron 700m and cannot connect my external monitor to it. I’ve check the properties but only one screen shows up. If you know what I can do. Please email me.
Thanks,
Jesse
August 13th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
J.Smith,
Not sure if it’s going to help but.
Unplug the AC adapter, remove the battery, press on the power button and keep it pressed down for a few seconds. Now plug in the power adapter and try again. Sometimes it helps.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
8100 user,
First of all, try reconnecting the memory module. If you have only one RAM module, try moving it to the empty slot. If you have two RAM modules, try removing them one by one. Test the laptop with each RAM module installed into different slots. It’s possible this just a memory problem.
Try minimizing the laptop as much as you can. Remove battery, hard drive, DVD drive, wireless card, etc… maybe even disconnect the LCD screen video cable from the motherboard and connect and external monitor instead. Turn on the laptop. If the laptop still fails the same way and the hard drive “activity” light still goes on, solid, for a few seconds then turns off, most likely you have a problem with the motherboard.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
my Dell inspiron 6000 does not come on after a long charging.
it went off by itself, LED comes on and off when switching it on.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Hi there, thank you for your recommendations in this page……I have a laptop is a dell inspiron 8600, when I turn it on the screen at the beginning seems to work ok but after, it goes off, then comeback again and when you are about to login the screen goes off again and don’t comeback. The lights on the right side (the green ones close to the screen) starts flashing very slow like going on and off.
Thank you so much in advance for your response and for all your help, I really appreciate it. God bless you
July 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Mike,
I had the same problem that you had, I think that’s a problem with the ATI video card that came with the laptop, I have an inspiron 8200 and I had to change the video card, don’t get the ATI one, get the nvidia geforce 440 go, and if this video card doesn’t work with the LCD, pulg to an external monitor and perform a firmware update, restart it, and that’s it, you’ll have your computer back. I don’t know if the nvidia is compatiblo with your computer model, you have to check that
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 am
I have a problem with my mom’s Inspiron 8100 – when I try to turn it on it just sits at the Blue Dell spash screen indefinitely. F2, F12, Del, don’t seem to do anything to let me into the BIOS setup.
This seems to persist whether or not the hard drive is in place.
The hard drive “activity” light goes on, solid, for a few seconds then turns off, the computer sitting there indefinitely. I don’t hear any beeps to indicate a POST.
I had it sitting off to the side for some time now, last time I tried to boot it up the blue splash screen took up the entire monitor space as normal, now for some reason, it’s shrunk, taking up only a smaller square worth of the screen’s space.
Thanks for any advice to point me in the right direction, I’m not sure what it could be!
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
HINKY,
That sounds like a problem with the motherboard. Sorry, I cannot advice you how to fix it, I don’t repair motherboards on the component level. I guess you’ll have to replace it or find a repair shop offering component level repairs.