20 Most Recent Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Notebook - Page 9 Questions & Answers

Use a toothpick to loosen it. Stop eating on your keyboard. Keyboards are cheap, maybe you should just buy another one.

Buy a can of compressed air attach straw and blast between the crevice of the keys, this will clean most dirt and grime that get trapped.

This is not good, this indicated hard drive failure, or windows files has been corrupted so you can not access the partition. If you have the owners manual see if they offer a way to do a full recovery, if that is not available, have the hardware assessed for possible replacement.

If it happened after the installation of Win 7, then board malfunction if not very likely. Do you get any video on start up. The Bios should be displayed fine as it is not related to Win 7 OS. However if no display during startup would mean somehow your BIOS got corrupted during the installation. Flashing the BIOS might help

Try a different power cord. You should have at least one spare. Spare power cords are available on eBay for $10 or so.

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Right click on desktop, go to properties and there go to desktop, there you can change your background.

Yes that could be horrid. Try setting the tv as your only screen. If you go to l settings Navigate to the "Start" menu, and click it once to open it. Select "Control Panel." Click "Adjust Screen Resolution" under "Appearance and Personalization." Click the drop-down arrow next to "Multiple Displays" in the window that opens. Select "Show Desktop Only On 2." Windows will disable the Mini 10 display and use the external monitor as the primary screen Read more: How to Run an External Monitor on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 ' eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_6821296_run-dell-inspiron-mini-9.html#ixzz1hFvetaud

It sounds like the port not the battery. You should take it someone to repair it. They are not expensive...

Is it starting at all? Try pushing F2/ or f12 to get to you dos screen. Push this before the dell screen comes up.nthere you will be able to access diagnostic tests and if you need to set it to factory settings. And here are the solutions dell websites gives! Hope it works

HelloXP usually loads usb drivers and some ethernet drivers. If you have access to another computer copy the drivers onto a flash drive and try to install them from it.If you have internet access with the mini 10 you can download them from dell support. Hope this helps and good luck.

Ifthe laptop battery is more than 3 - 4 years old then the battery could be wornout. Rechargeable batteries have a finite number of charge and discharge cyclesand will lose their charge capacity over time, i.e. won't charge to 100% andgradually the charge reduces until the battery won't charge up atall. ORThe battery shows a 100% charge but when the adapter is disconnected the batterydrops off to zero capacity in a very short time. Ifthe battery drops to an unacceptable charge level then the battery needs to bereplaced.

Sounds like a bad/overheating hard drive or possibly the ram is defective.The hard drive may have developed bad sectors and/or delays.Overheating really seems to be a problem on the new smaller and thinner laptops.The hard drives are confined to such small area causing them to overheat and develop bad sectors and worn spindles plus disc surface damage.Try removing the hard drive and see if the beeps continue and also see if you can clean the CPU of dust and lent with compressed air with it off and unplugged.Get back to me after you try that

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Its very easy to change the wallpaper.. Follow the steps in the following link..

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Use the following link to restore to the factory settings


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