Dell Studio 17 Laptop - Page 5 - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

I have had this happen, but there may be more than one problem causing it, so there may be more than one solution. One thing is: are you trying to put a DVD in a CD rom? Most of the newer ones are also a DVD player, but it never hurts to check. It will not read it, and may reject (eject) it. There may be scratches or other damage on the disk, causing the laser not to read it. I have found that sometimes you can turn the disk 1/4 or 1/2 turn and it will read it, I don't know why. (This is a common problem with playing cd's in a car stereo - often they will continue to eject it until you rotate it a bit.) If your disk has scratches, fingerprints, or dust on it, you can clean it with a mechanical cleaner. I bought one at Wal-Mart and it has cleaned many disks that I thought were useless. Cleaning by using a soft rag and soapy water my work, but may also cause even more scratches, so I would not recommend it.

Hi,

We could resolve this by many testings, we cannot give direct solution immediately.

Initially while booting do you see any screen? like DELL logo. Try tapping F2 or DEL key the moment you turn on and check if you can get into BIOS.

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Riztech

First of all, you need to make sure your power adapter is providing enough power to both run the laptop & charge the battery. A very good way to do this is to compare your laptop voltage & ampere requirements (written on a sticker on the bottom of the laptop) with the voltage & ampere ratings of the power adapter. Voltages should be the same, or the power adapter's voltage about up to 0.5 volts more than the laptop's voltage rating. Amperage of the power adapter should be at least equal to or greater than the laptop's rating. It should never be less than the laptop's rating, or else the power adapter will be providing insufficient amperes to charge the battery. Of course, the power adapter's nominal amperage might be ok, but it degraded on usage. You can verify this by testing using a good or new power adapter.
If the battery did not charge using the new power adapter, take the battery off the laptop, & using a dry tooth brush, scrub in between the fins of the battery connector on the motherboard & on the battery it self, then put the battery back into the laptop & try again.
If this still did not resolve the problem, then the battery itself could be bad. Try it on another laptop, or try a good or new battery in your laptop.
If this did not work, there might be a possibility that the charging circuitry on the laptop's motherboard is defective & needs servicing. In order to do this, the laptop needs to be disassembled & the motherboard checked for defective/burned out components in the area near the DC jack. Any defective/burned out components found should be replaced, or you might need to replace the laptop's motherboard altogether.

That is a bad hard drive or sector in hard drive code. Try and run an FDISK on the drive or reformat the drive with your factory restore disk. If you are unable to format the hard drive replace it with a new one. That takes a SATA "serial ATA" hard drive. They are universal so any manufacture name replacement will work.

It seems that the boot sector has been damaged.
re-installing OS may help.

If you have important data on the disk, please install the disk as second disk to another computer and backup your data before installing the os.

Here is how you can change the keyboard for some Dell Studio 17 series system. You may refer to this link (Click Here) . Hope this will help.

Sorry, the optical unit has died. Don't even bother taking the disk out, it has been damaged anyway. Take apart the laptop and replace the dvd unit . If you have enough money you can even upgrade it to blu-ray.

the Error code was sited below as the (Disk Self Test) DST Log contains previous error(s)

in case of your error DST log contains previous error(s) doing a chkdsk /r or a repair reinstall of xp might resolve the issue.
to resolve issue...


Error Code Error Message 1000-0141
or
2000-0141 No Drive Detected 1000-0142
or
2000-0142 Drive Self Test Failed Status Byte=XXh 1000-0143
or
2000-0143 Drive Smart Read Command Failed 1000-0144
or
2000-0144 No Support for Drive Self Test Error Code Error Message 1000-0145
or
2000-0145 Timeout waiting for Drive Self Test to complete 1000-0146
or
2000-0146 DST Log contains previous error(s) 1000-0147
or
2000-0147 Unit (x): IDE status failed. Status byte = (x) Control Code = (x) Msg = (s) 1000-0148
or
2000-0148 IDE ERROR: status (x) (s)

If its a brand new pc, I'd get straight back on to Dell, there could be a fault and you don't want to invalidate your warranty by messing about with it.

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When you tap your touchpad it acts the same as a left-click action. accidentally skimming the touchpad when typing can be interpreted as clicking your cursor. If your cursor was over a different window than the one you were typing in, then you may have accidentally clicked out of the window where you were typing.
When typing try to place the cursor past the very end of your text and then if you accidentally bump the touchpad it won't mess up your work.
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the button is usually on the door of the CD drive. Or you can go to the My Computer Icon and double click on that and then right click on the Cd-rom drive and select "eject"

Clearing the browser history does not affect the bookmarks.

Go to the camcorder's manufacturer's support website and download the software compatible with your operating system.

Software needed to convert the video format to that of your computer can accept or play.

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The Charger isnt the right volts for that laptop i recommend getting another charger,, the power cable maybe blew from too much use..

You need to connect a wired usb mouse first and try pairing the bluetooth mouse again with your system by going to the control panel and opening your bluetooth device manager. Click add a device and press the connect button underneath your mouse. System should be able to detect your mouse. If that failed, try replacing the batteries with fresh ones.

HI there.
Try this things first so that you can check if it is really the screen that's causing the problem,
While the computer is off, press D+POWER button and hold it for 5 secs, different colors should come up,
Make sure the computer turns on. You will know that if the power button lights up. Try to lug in an external monitor and see if display will come up,
If the display comes up, and the d+power did not display anything, might want to call technical support so you can get the screen replaced,
Have a good day!

Sounds like a problem with the video ram. Things to try:
Flash BIOS to most current Load BIOS defaults Update Video Driver and Chipset to most current

Hi!

What you could do is to upgrade your bios firmware.

Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/dellstudio17biosupgrade1

Download that and run it in windows. Do not turn off the computer at any point during the upgrade.

I hope this helps.

Jubert

Hard drive is failing. Reseat hard drive cables. If it does not work, have to replace hard drive. probably damage from overheating or powersurges.