20 Most Recent Dell XPS M1530 Notebook - Page 5 Questions & Answers

It is possible that the video cable is chafing in the point where it passes through the hinge assembly. Try reseating the video cable, if that doesn't help, the replacing the LCD cable assembly is the likely fix.

If the CD drive is damaged you may need to replace it but if you may have had a file or driver problem, you can do the fallowing and it may restore your missing driver files.
Enter your device manager and look for flags or exclamation marks.
If found, remove them all and reboot unit.
If when the unit restarts it finds the missing device, it will automatically load the driver.
If it does not and you still do not have access to your CD drive, go back to your device manager and open you drives category and look for your CD drive.
If you see it, remove it and reboot your unit and again, it will load the appreciate drives required.
Hope this works for you.

try to disable windows firewall in normal mode...

the sensor in the headphone out may be stuck. wiggle the headphone plug a little bit before removing it and see what happens.

If bitlocker is enabled, Dell Media Direct cannot access application files to run apps. So either boot to windows or disable bitlocker

You might consider
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Please rate this solutions and let me know if this works for you. Thanks.

Go to the dell support site and put in your laptops model number and navigate to the drivers page and download all new drivers and let them self install once you have them downloaded. I usually download them to a temp folder on my desktop, once they are all in there I load them one at a time and I don't reboot until they are all installed. Good luck...ParrotHead PC Repair

www.dellsupport.com enter your service tag number. nice folks, very helpful

Pretty much what lyzmorato said , except its taken me ages to type it :)
Are you using XP or Vista ? NTLDR missing means when your pc/laptophas started up it has tried to do the NTLDR check which basically looksat the hard drive on your computer and just confirms its o.k
THere can be a number of causes for a missing ntldr
1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
4. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
5. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
6. New hard disk drive being added.
7. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
8. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
9. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.
Ideally you should go through all these options , but if you have alaptop it can be difficult to take a part and check all the connections.
If you are not really computer literate I suggest you get someone whois to follow this guide, of seek help from a technician as this can bea little tricky. This is quite a long one!

When I had this message coming up on my pc it turned out that my harddrive was toast , so prepare yourself for that in a worst casescenario. You may want to remove your HD and back it up now if youdon't want to risk losing any data
Have you made any major changes , recently changed operating system or installed new software? Am assuming you are using XP
Hopefully your hard drive is not broken, and somehow these file havebeen deleted or corrupted, First things first, make sure you haven'tleft a cd or 3.5" disk in your machine that it might be trying to bootfrom
ONce you have made sure there is nothing inserted in the machine , youare going to need to access the bios settings on your machine,
Watch your pc as it boots up at the start , it should give you anoption to press a key to enter bios settings , press this key(sometimes its F2)
Within the BIOS menu, there should be a section that deals with theboot order of your pc , you need to change it so it boots from yourcd-rom first (if you dont understand what i mean by this check thislink
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm)
Remember to note down the drive letter of your cd-rom drive as you will need this later mine for example is D:
After you have done this stick in the Windows setup cd and restart your pc
When the welcome screen comes up press R on your keyboard to enter the recovery console
It may ask for an administrator password, if you haven't changed it just press enter
then type in these commands
COPY X:i386NTLDR C:
COPY X:i386NTDETECT.COM C:
Where the X is you need to substitute that letter for your cd driveletter so as I said earlier mine was D: , so on my pc it would read
COPY D:i386NTLDR C:
COPY D:i386NTDETECT.COM C:
(the c: represents your hard drive if it is different from c: you need to change it to whatever it is )

then take out the CD ROM and type exit
then restart
your pc. If this doesn't work you can always formatt your HD andre-install windows, I did this and it worked for about a daybutbecause my hard drive was corrupted the ntldr messga returned and Ieventually had to resort to buying another HD which sorted the problemfor me

Hello,

Please try to see your power cord connector and try to see if it is working.
Thanks

This is a free part of the webpage, no fee involved. Geekman was correct, replace the keyboard (About $20 on EBay) will be the resolution

There is nothing to do except use the other Shift key or to replace the keyboard.
Replacement keyboards are available from stores on the Internet (not very expensive), I purchased keyboards from Yall Store WEB site - use this link :-
http://www.yallstore.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=1lrjst3ncshlb4c7frn9bev3c3&keyword=keyboards

might be bad LED light bulb. or bad motherboard welcome to dell (samsung) dell dosnt actually make computers. they just slap them together.

Hello,

Yes the system restore will work under any circumstances, like if you restore it using system restore first your data will lost especially if that data was not stored during you have created your system restore setup. So my advice is that , please back up all your data to your other drive or partition where it is not located in your boot disk then reinstall or repair your system to replace the damage files and corrupted filesin your

Bottom right-hand corner..do you have the speaker on mute?? If so, bring it up by clicking on and dragging upwards.

update the bios.

You can restore your Dell to factory settings by booting the computer. As soon as you see the Dell logo press either F10 or F11 to boot into the recovery partition. If you do not have one then you need to contact Dell and if your machine is under warranty they should be able to send you out CDs for free. If not, I have paid $20 to have these CDs shipped to me.

thsi guy is **** he put this info on my question too, he only got master rank by putting the same solution on 101 different laptop questions and the websites are all the same. sorry its not an answer but he is annoying