20 Most Recent Dell Latitude D600 Notebook - Page 8 Questions & Answers

When im away from the computer, the screen stays black and cannot see anything

Use the jumper settings. Search for tutorials in Youtube. David

first go in to set up utility and see if the harddrive is detected there.
If none is detected, power off, remove battery, remove and reseat hard drive.LINK

If this is Windows XP, press and hold F8 after power on, choose Safe mode, and log in as Administrator. Then you can remove password for that user. If this is Windows 7, you need some boot CD (Hiren's Boot CD) with Windows password remover.

try booting in safe mode. restart laptop keep tapping f8 then boot safe mode with networking. once you booted to safe mode with networking try plugging in the ethernet cable to the lan port check if it still freezes the touchpad mouse pointer. if not then try to ran full system scan antivirus and check running programs on startup that might cause the conflict. if the problem exist in safe mode with networking download the latest bios for your system.

you need to turn on bluetooth by using function keys. Press Fn button and button with sign of antenna simultaneously.

So many laptop of this series have that problem. You need to take it to the expert. And if you know how to open a laptop then you open it and look there is sound card distorted from its place, just push it to board and it will be fixed.

I have more of a suspicion of the CPU fan than the hard drive, right now. If a hard drive goes bad, the system will wake up, go through it's POST (Power On Self Test), and then tell you there's an issue with the hard drive. If the CPU fan goes bad, the system turns on, sees an RPM of 0 on the fan, then turns back off. That hypothesis also fits in with the slowness you were seeing. If a CPU starts to overheat (because the fan isn't running well), it will start to throttle the clock speed down in an attempt to produce less heat.
Unfortunately, it sounds like your laptop may be in need of a professional repair facility.

1turn off your dell dos not mether what order is.Press "F2" as soon as the LEDs first blink on your keyboard. F2 must be pressed before your operating system starts to load. If you miss your chance, start over and try again.after find the menu named : boot order and put the first one wich one you want .save ,exit and there you go

restart the computer using esc or f1 or f2 and proceed according.otherwise you must open the computer and disconnect the small battery inside for +3vdc and connect again. and try it. and ready.God bless you

Contact MTS customer care They will delete messages from the server. This is apparently the only way of it being done. Good luck with them BUT....

Computer does not boot up The problem maybe the RAM, it could be faulty or just needs reseating to make proper electrical contact. Reseat the RAM and then boot up your laptop. If it still does not boot up then remove the RAM module/s and take them to your friendly computer repair shop and get them to test the RAM for you. Just like you sometimes need a mechanic to repair your car, sometimes you do need a technician to diagnose and identify the fault or faults on your computer. Not only does a good service technican have the experience to deal with this type of problem, they also have the equipment that allows them to look at things the average computer user can't see, and he has a collection of replacement parts that can be used to quickly test individual components on your computer.

The flickering may not be caused by a corrupt driver, it could be the impending failure of the fluorescent back light of the display or its high voltage supply.

Trying driver replacement though is the first thing to try.
If the original driver is corrupt, you can try the following;

- Right-click on My Computer
- Left-click on Properties
- Click on Hardware tab
- Click on Device Manager
- Locate and open Display Adaptors
- Locate the video listing for your
- Highlight and delete this
- Reboot the computer

If Windows does what it should (no guarantee on this!), it will 'find' a 'new device' and install the driver for it.

You can download the device drivers from Dell WEB site,the support download page. Make sure you select your model desktop or laptop,better still, type in the Service Tag number, it is printed on the label on thebottom of the laptop and on the back or sides of a desktop. (If the Service Taglabel is missing then go into the BIOS setting and on one of the BIOS pages,the Service Tag number will be displayed). This will open the page where thespecific drivers for your model computer are located. Also make sure you selectthe Windows of the drivers for your Windows operating system. Click on thislink to download the drivers: - http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen

Make sure you have not accidentally used the FN+F5 key
That combination sets the laptop to use an external display.

If using that does not give you a display take a small torch (flashlight if in USA) and shine it at an angle on the laptop screen.
If you can see any sort of picture you would be looking at replacement of some minor parts to the laptop screen

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You need to insert the CD/DVD that came with your computer and boot from that.

Arrow keys move the cursor into fields + or - keys change the values of the fields.

That icon is the indicator for Caps Lock (aka Shift Lock). When in the operating system (Windows), you can turn the icon on (or should be able to) by pressing the CAPS Lock key, and turn it off by pressing the CAPS Lock key again.