Posts by TheNomad

While it already shows in the boot screen i'd say hardware related. But not inverter or backlight. Reseat video cables and try reseating the GPU if that's possible.

Dell has designed the "smart battery" system into it's laptops. If the system fails to communicate with the battery at startup, BIOS implementation might prevent startup. What BIOS revision you're using and is it the latest...

DELL Latitude in the D6xx range have a hardware reset option. This requires short-cutting 2 pins of the password chip for a short while.

When you press SHIFT, the standby button changes to hibernate. And only if hibernation is enabled in the power options assuming you have enough disk space for at least the size of your RAM. Otherwise, it's ole buggy widow$

A bit about self-encrypting disks. The magic word could be TPM for your system.

With so many with the same issue - over and over again - here's why the AC Adapters / Motherboards for a range of DELL Laptops keep dying. The design of the hardware circuitry for identification of the DELL AC Adapter is seriously...

If your system is equipped with a Master password, call DELL and find out the procedure. Most likely there is a hardware procedure which involves opening the laptop and find the PCB pins to connect to clear the NVRAM storage...

Used PowerSync for many years. Never trapped it on any wrong doings. My experience is that file synchronization is not as "simple" it seems. Sync / Replicate / one-way / two-way etc etc, needs can vary on the situation at...

With a battery fully charged, the stress on the AC power supply is less. Adapter capacity is sized on full battery charge & benchmark use. When the adapter cant supply the amps, the battery is the fallback. To know what your...

Boot it into safe-mode - then let it sit same as you described. See if you can shut it down more quickly. If that's the case, look at what your system tray carries around (resident programs) and shutdown the ones you don't really need....