About Lauren Bennett Expertise I am a computer science major and my dad is an Electric Engineering, so my life has revolved around computers. For as long as I can remember, I have been buying and selling computers. I tend to travel a lot, so I have always had a laptop. I have bought 5 of them for myself, and bought around 30-40 for friends and family. I have dealt with the good and the bad of various version and brand names. If you are in need of buying a laptop, feel free to contact me and I'm sure I will be able to guide you into purchasing the laptop that will be the best fit for you. I will custom build you computers for you to choose from so you can get an exact idea of what to go and buy when you do it yourself and so that you have an exact price. However, I am in the USA and am only knowledgeable about computers here in the US. I do not know about foreign currency or the quality of computer brand names outside the US.
Experience B.S. in Computer Science. Buying and selling for years. Assisting friends/family.
Question Hello
I bought a dell laptop, Dell Inspiron 1501 model 8 months ago. about a month ago, while working with it, I notices an unusual behavior.The opened windows were minimizing and maximizing without my clicks for it. I felt the virus protection has expired. I installed another and ran it.
But when I rebooted the laptop, it showed a blank screen with three reoccurring beeps. I turn it off with the power button and tried again but with the sane experience. I left it for about a week.Got an IT guy who said I should reformat the HDD. After he did, It worked for two day and the blank and beep experience resurfaced.
Pls what is wrong.Redeem me from this hell with dell. Dell says my warranty period is expired.I reside very far from a Service Center.
Answer Your warranty is not expired - all Dell laptops come with a minimum of a 1 year warranty. Your best bet is to run diagnostics on the system to figure out what the problem is. Here are instructions on how to run them. You will want to do a full system diagnostic check. This will tell you what is working not how it should so you'll know what needs fixed.
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Connect the computer to an electrical outlet, if it is not already connected.
3. Turn on (or restart) your computer.
4. Diagnostics can be invoked one of two ways:
1. Turn on the computer. When the DELL™ logo appears, press <F12> immediately. Select Diagnostics from the boot menu and press <Enter>.
NOTE: If you wait too long and the operating system logo appears, continue to wait until you see the Microsoft® Windows® desktop. Then shut down your computer and try again.
2. Press and hold the <Fn> key while powering the system on.
NOTE: If you see a message stating that no diagnostics utility partition has been found, run the Dell Diagnostics from the Drivers and Utilities CD.
The computer runs the Pre-boot System Assessment, a series of initial tests of your system board, keyboard, hard drive, and display.
o During the assessment, answer any questions that appear.
o If a failure is detected, the computer stops and beeps. To stop the assessment and restart the computer, press <n>; to continue to the next test, press <y>; to retest the component that failed, press <r>.
o If failures are detected during the Pre-boot System Assessment, write down the error code(s) and contact Dell.
If the Pre-boot System Assessment completes successfully, you receive the message Booting Dell Diagnostic Utility Partition. Press any key to continue.
5. Press any key to start the Dell Diagnostics from the diagnostics utility partition on your hard drive.
Go to this website and type in your service tag. It will tell you all about your warranty. You should double check and make sure it really is expired and then look at the receipt they gave you via e-mail when you bought it and see how long the warranty is supposed to be. Make sure the two match up.
