20 Most Recent Dell Inspiron 531 Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3GHz 1GB 500GB DVD RW Vista Home Premium PC Desktop Questions & Answers

I would suspect a bad hard drive.

Normal 0 Press the Receiver button (and the lights will start flashing.
Then if the Keyboard isn't working, press the small RESET/CONNECT button on the back of the board to connect the keyboard to the receiver.

If the MOUSE isn’t working, push the small RESET/CONNECT button on the back of the mouse to connect to the receiver. Then they should work okay.
Hope this helps. Bud

If you think you're having a memory problem, you have these options: 1. Re-seat the memory chips and make sure they're in the socket correctly. 2. Go to www.Dell.com/support. They have diagnostics that will test Memory and all systems in your PC and show you what might be wrong. 3. You can run a memory Clean or defragmentation yourself. Go to Start, then Computer, then right click the C drive and select "Properties" then look for "Clean Memory" and/or "Tools" to do the "defrag". Hope this helps.

If your PC doesn't boot up using the hard drive, you can check that by looking for the F2 or F12 displayed on the screen during boot up. Then start pressing F2 or F12 quickly to get setup. In setup follow the directions and set your "boot device" to "hard drive" Hope this is what you needed.

Souns like a memory problem...try reseating the memory and rebooting

manual for that computer click on the blue link Product Support Dell US

Yes you can install additional memory in the unused slots as long as you get the correct memory needed. I hope this helped. Good luck and have a great day.

first check your is working or not then open control panel - administrative tools - services - printer spooler services - double click the services - click stop button - next click start button - choose automatic then give the print if not coming connect other pc to ur printer check printer

Yes, I would check all connectors and remove all devices to the bare bones and see if it boots up. Then re-install cards one at a time to see if you can isolate the problem to a specific card or device.

DVD writers are sold as complete unit, they relatively inexpensive. You can fit them yourself, with nothing more than a screw driver, if you are comfortable doing this. Most computer shops will carry stock and be happy to fit the new equipment, although there may be a charge for this.

Power on computer and enter the set up (BIOS) menu by tapping the F2 key.Under DRIVES, you must disable floppy in set up (BIOS) menu.

The reason why that happens is because after sleep mode the machine take a little while to start running all the back ground processes so your page will wait until all those processes start running then the machine will do your assignment.

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Test all power and data leads that attach to your hard drive IDE,SATA the leads from your MOTHERBOARD TO THE HARD DRIVE make sure they have a secure dust free connections and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty if its a flat 40pin ide this will be the first to fail Make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd and floppy (If Applicable) have secure connections and are not faulty. Restart your computer During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup usually the Delete or the F2 key but will differ depending on your computer and Bios. Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS then using the arrow keys navigate to advanced bios features press enter change your first boot device to cd press escape then press f10 to save to cmos restart this will erase you operating system you will have to have an operating system disk to load it onto you hard drive or create a partition to load another operating system. Note: After you have loaded the operating system you should go back and change the first boot device to failsafe or optimised defaults after windows has loaded If you are putting windows XP on your computer your computer will automatically restart it might restart 2 times one to finish the installation the next will be because the operating system is loaded and will boot from your cd\dvd. Hope this helps.

clear all browing data and check the list of blocked sites

create the menu tab on your homepage right click in the top toolbar you should see a number of toolbar options select the menu tab which will add File Edit View Favorites Tools and Help click on the tools at the bottom of the drop down list will be internet options in the general tab tick in the box to delete temporary files history cookies and saved passwords below that will be change search defaults click on settings you will see all search providers you have if dont need any of them you can disable or remove them

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Open the command prompt. If you do not see it go to run and type in "cmd.exe" then hit enter. when you get to the screen type in "C:\format" if that doesn't work try "format c:\\\" This will literally erase everything on your computer and allow you to completely start from scratch.

The beeping is called a beep code, you may be able to check the connections on the inside but only if you know what you're doing. You will most likely have to take it in the be serviced.

Try plugging the wireless adapter into one of the usb slots on the back of the computer. If it still shows that message, I wouldn't worry. The difference in speed is negligible at best. hope this helps