20 Most Recent Dell Precision M50 Notebook Questions & Answers

Hi Peter, well the good news is the batter is very cheap and easily spotted (if you can find a highly waxed green caterpillar shaped piece - that will be your CMOS battery). Google image Dell Precision M50 battery and you'll find plenty. Looks like the connectors are fairly straight forward to work with Remember to have the laptop off and away from the mains - and wear an anti static wrist if possible. Regards

First - re-seat the harddisk and reboot the computer. If the computer does not boot up then reboot andgo into the BIOS configuration to see if the BIOS detects the hard drive. If itdoesn't detect the hard drive then it could be faulty.Then the hard drive needsto be replaced in the computer/laptop, Windows installed and the computer orlaptop's device drivers plus your programs etc. to get a functioningcomputer/laptop again.

You are trying to connect to a wireless network that has a password (referred to as protection).

Dont worry about the "bits" or the network configuration parts. - thats all overkill.

The long and short of it is that you need a password to log onto your router.

It will either be 5, 10, 13, or 26 characters in length.

If you do not have the password, you can post the version of the router (model number and brand) up here, and someone can help you reset it so that you can put the password into your computer.

First I would check to make sure the "WEP" key is the right number of characters. 5-or-10-or-13-or-26

Have you tried it with the AC adapter plugged in? it could be your battery is no longer holding any charge and may need to be replaced

While this could be due to any number of hardware problems, the most common and easiest to
troubleshoot or repair is RAM failure. If your laptop has two RAM modules installed, try booting with just one and then the other in the primary slot. If your laptop only has one RAM module, you might consider buying one online from a site with a good memory selector, like Crucial.com, or borrow one for testing purposes.

If this did not turn out to be the case, then you might consider removing the various components of the laptop, on part at a time, & trying to power it on to see if the problem is resolved. Start by removing the easier parts first, like the hard drive, optical drive, wireless adapter, modem, ... etc.
Continue to remove the parts, one a t a time, till you only have the motherboard & the LCD screen. Re-install the RAM, & test whether the system will stay up when turned on or not. If not, then consider replacing the motherboard with a new one.

1024x768 is a native wide-screen resolution. more than likely your video card is fine and your notebook monitor does not support that format without shrinking the top and bottom which defeats the purpose of filling the whole screen. plug the kappy into an external widescreen monitor or TV and it will work at 1024x768.
Regards

try to look this site since dont have idea about ur system

http://dell.driversdown.com/dell-drivers-list/s_693_1.shtml

remove external peripherals. remove battery. use ac adapter alone. check if ac adapter has sufficient power or check if ac adapter led is solid green or blue. if not then ac adapter might not giving laptop enough power to power up.
if ac adapter led stays on but some problem check the ac adapter - laptop pin socket if loose or damage. if not then replace mobo.

hello, it seems like the only thing you haven't tried is to reset BIOS by taking out the battery from the board. since you have reseated everthing else i am assuming that you are comforatble opening up you laptop.
open it one more time and remove the battery from the board (some of these batteries are now soldered so you may need soldering iron)and leave it out for about atleast 10mins.

see if that helps.

regards
Amar Sondhi

The error is that the battery is beginning to fail. There is an internal failure that has been detected and the resolution is to replace the battery.

The battery will still function, but will slowly degrade until it fails completely.

Go to Control Panel - Display - Settings - Advance - Monitor Tab change Monitor Type to Generic Television click Apply

u cant u nee dto rewipe it all u meen windows or the bois

Try reseating the processor. Go to Dell.com and download repair manual. I have seen this same 3 lights a couple of times on c840's (same machine) when I forgot to lock the processor cam in place...

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000137253/a-guide-to-identifying-the-source-of-an-abnormal-noise-on-a-dell-pc

this 2007 year PC OLD, has many limits (CORE 2 is one) is this windows 10? 64bit> I bet not its CORE 2 old) I came with VISTA if MS loaded OS, or XP or RedHat Linux? what boot menu are you talking about.? F12? wild guess me, VISTA OS: (now zero support) in windows, we have disk manager, do all devices show up now? this is first, if not here, explorer can not work. lets do the correct order: 1: bios sees my media. (good) 2: then in device manager, it sees them, if not drivers bad. 3: then Diskmanager sees the devices, and must have drive letter or next. if letters missing right click device and add one. 4: explorer (This PC) fails to find it. if above fails sure. easy as 1,2,3,4 order, matters. can't see CD does that mean a disk or the whole drive? cant See HDD, is this HDD0 ,1,2, 3 or? how many HDD do you have, and are there SSD drives there and last what SATA ports are you using, some are limited. here is your DELL.com support page, (12 years later still here) https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/precision-t7400/drivers what HDD fails, does the PC boot at all? my wild guess NO. what OS what OS do you want to run, that be first thing to ask on any 2007 old PC, as Windows 10 will fail here. I Bet. for sure 64bit.

Could be a faulty psu or disk drive - suggest test both

If not data on the flash drive I suggest try reformatting the drive to remove any malware

Many Dell can be a bit funny about exactly what RAM they will accept == check what other owners say on the Dell website user forums ..

At power-on, use F12 (or F8) and select 'Repair' ... DO NOT let it 'reformat' your drive or you will loose everything .. If that fails, you may have to choose 'Factory Restore', but this will re-install Windows and you will LOOSE EVERYTHING !! SO == if you have another PC, I suggest move your disk drive to that other PC and copy off all your photos/music/videoa etc you don't want to loose before doinbg a Factory Restore ..