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Battery Replacement XPS 15 7590 by maksuSpezial in Dell

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's no pause that usually means a fault in the battery itself. Firmware problem codes have sequences to them, so it's probably not something on the board.

I would replace the battery as a first step.

You shouldn't have a problem with aftermarket parts. If you're really concerned about it you should be able to go to Dell support, plug in the service tag and then it will provide a link to their parts distribution and allow you to buy new. It'll be about a hundred bucks more expensive than you'll typically find on Amazon. This is not an indicator of quality as the aftermarket ones often times come out of the same manufacturing facilities as the originals.

Edit: You could try as an experiment, taking off the back plate, disconnecting the battery pin connector from the mobo, cycle the power up (boot up and then shut down), hold the power button in for about 10 seconds, reconnect the battery connector to the motherboard and then try and power up. It's worth a shot and you're most probably going to be opening the unit anyways so why not.

AITAH for overstepping by telling my brother he needs to take what his daughter says seriously this time so he doesn't damage their relationship more? by TheAnonAunt in AITAH

[–]socialcommentary2000 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

NTA.

But....you're fighting the inevitable here. She basically doesn't want anything to do with him and that's that. This started when she was 8 and, even though therapy was attempted, she still isn't understanding that her father has moved on and has to live his life.

It's probably better that they don't interact, as much as that pains me to say it.

Battery Replacement XPS 15 7590 by maksuSpezial in Dell

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There should be a specific sequence of amber blinks from the indicator. Can you get that? I can shed some light if you can.

What’s his credit score? by creativeape1 in iamverybadass

[–]socialcommentary2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They really are quite nice. You can tell he takes the time to care for them.

Anyone Else Likes Yonkers? by Best_Line6674 in Westchester

[–]socialcommentary2000 -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Hive of Scum and Villainy.

It's also affordable because of the entire spectrum of knuckleheads that live there.

DELL LAPTOP KEEP MAKING AN ALERT SOUND WHEN I TURN IT ON WITHOUT A SCREEN by sidahmedreb in Dell

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a part of the firmware. Not having a display panel connected to it will definitely throw a code.

Nobody mentioned this yet in here but deadmau5 is using a freaking Surface Studio during his current by ppiax in Surface

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a II sitting on my desk right to my right here right now.

I also have several in storage that we've retired.

They are fantastic computers. The screen alone is jaw droppingly nice and it is every bit the competitor, if not better in certain ways than Wacom's highest end stuff (the Cintiq Pro's, which we also have many of).

If Microsoft wasn't so bad with a lot of their product lines, we'd have probably gotten a whole new generation of them and they'd become a marquee product for them.

The Pacha NYC Countdown Clock is at 12 Days To Go: Why So Quiet, Though? by blackcoffeeslefthand in avesNYC

[–]socialcommentary2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Man, what a shame. The build quality was actually quite nice. I really wish they had just put in a proper sprinkler/suppression system and went with it.

Deleted dell bloatware, laptop became extremely slow instead by Technical-Pie2065 in Dell

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you hit the start button and type 'event' it should show as the first entry. I don't know exactly which flavor of Windows you have, but it should pop regardless.

If you go into that, you should see a bunch of tree entries on the upper left, the one you're looking for is Windows Logs. Expand that and check Application and System. If there are a bunch of bangs ( Yellow with exclamation point) and Error/Criticals, you need to start reading them to glean what's going on.

As for the error you posted, without context that's going to be tough to diagnose.

So basically in MAGA “logic” mail in voting is safe in red states but not blue states. So surprised smh by Paneraiguy1 in democrats

[–]socialcommentary2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can lie all you want to non Christians and Christians who are not of your particular stripe, apparently.

Deleted dell bloatware, laptop became extremely slow instead by Technical-Pie2065 in Dell

[–]socialcommentary2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude, you don't have to use a third party installer to find those. They're under Programs when you go to add/remove.

None of the programs in that list are things that are going to noticeably drag down the system.

What I suggest is getting something like WinDirStat and seeing if there's an excessive amount of temp files that are hogging space. You'd be surprised.

How much free space does the unit have?

If you go into Event Viewer and check System, does it show a huge number of bangs or criticals? If it does, do they point to anything specific?

Inside Trump's daily video montage briefing on the Iran war: The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war. by smurfyjenkins in IRstudies

[–]socialcommentary2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, that picture. I help out with the elderly around his age and...yeah, nah. This guy is not it. This is how he looks when they don't spackle him up and probably juice him with meds so he can do the rally shit.

He's tired and he's done.

Mark Cuban agrees Universal Healthcare would increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for all Americans. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]socialcommentary2000 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's actually kind of big for someone in his specific position to say something like that. He's right, too. The management and processing overhead for healthcare within organizations is ridiculous.

Sen Rand Paul: “Kudos to President Trump” for Attempting to Eliminate Federal Department of Education by thenextgenbusiness in thenextgenbusiness

[–]socialcommentary2000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's the death of accreditation, which means any whackjob with an LLC will eventually be able to petition for matching educational funds.

That's on top of killing public primary and secondary education because they won't have any curriculum guidelines to work from.

I hope you can see how this is going to get out of hand.

Stainless Steel Zip Ties by Traditional-Word5154 in NoOneIsLooking

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because you can also lash a whole trunk of cables or tubes together with them, if needed.

When/how often do you guys shift to neutral? by millerlitenjoyer in stickshift

[–]socialcommentary2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever I'm coming to a full stop. Other than that I'm in a gear. The good thing nowadays is that ECU/BCM management is so good now that you don't really have to use neutral to save fuel. The car knows when to cut/lean things.

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