r/Dell

So, after 4 years of getting my Inspiron 15, I decided on a fresh install of windows 11 because of the unnecessary bloatware and the PC suddenly becoming slow. Its my first time and i followed all steps correctly (I think)
Created the boot drive and added the WLAN/BT drivers (Realtek) in the boot drive
The process was going fine until the laptop started ‘HTTPS boot’ in the bios, and it needed internet.
This laptop does not have a RJ45 and I dont have a RJ45 to USB converter.
Can I somehow install the WiFi driver or do i require a USB-RJ45 connector.
Please help.

So hello guys I bought dell g15 2 days ago but after playing 30 min minecraft without shaders. Screen starts flickering. And then never stops. While playing valorant for 30 min at lowest setting, after 30 min, I gave error message graphics card/driver crashed. How to fix. After 30 mins it's start to lag even in browser.

Hey everyone, two things I need help with. Would really appreciate any input.

My current machine: Dell XPS 15 9520, i7-12700H, 64GB RAM, 1.5TB storage.

It's been a problem child since early days. Battery issues, sluggish performance even after upgrading the RAM and storage, lid-close sleep not working reliably, and late last year, the built-in screen died (backlight issue). Currently running it on 3 external monitors through a docking station.

The latest issue is the worst one yet. Every time I wake it from sleep or unlock it, everything freezes. Not running anything heavy, just opening Chrome is enough to crash the whole system. I have to do a full reboot every single time for it to work again. It's been happening consistently and it's killing my productivity.

Has anyone dealt with this wake-from-sleep freeze/crash before?

I've read it could be driver related, possibly the Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti and Intel Iris Xe dual GPU setup causing conflicts on resume. A few things I'm planning to try:

1. Roll back or update the Nvidia driver via Device Manager
2. Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome (Settings > System)
3. Run powercfg /energy in Command Prompt to check for power issues
4. Check for a Dell BIOS update through SupportAssist

If anyone has gone through this and found a fix, I'd love to know what actually worked. I've had the lid sleep issue for a while too and never fully resolved it.

Now, assuming this machine is just done -- I'm looking at the XPS 14 2026

Despite the pain with the 9520, I still think the XPS build quality is hard to beat, so I'm willing to try again with the new XPS 14.

How I use my laptop:

• Emails and general business work
• Heavy Chrome usage -- 6-7 browser windows, each with 5 to 20 tabs open
• Light Photoshop and Illustrator work
• Mostly cloud storage, minimal local files
• No gaming
• Video editing very rarely
• About 12 hours a day, almost always plugged in via docking station

The question:

I was originally set on the XPS 14 Series 3 with the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H, but prices went up and the X9 388H is now available. The X9 is about $1,500 more.

For my kind of workload, is the X9 actually worth the extra spend? Or is the X7 more than enough?

Happy to hear from anyone running either chip, or anyone with a similar multi-monitor, tab-heavy work setup. Thanks.

Need to replace my current work laptop soon and I’m trying not to make the wrong choice again. Last one looked good on paper but started getting loud and hot after about a year and the battery dropped off fast. I use my laptop all day for email, spreadsheets, meetings, and some light multitasking.

For people deep in the Dell ecosystem already, what’s been your most dependable business laptop lately? thanks for any suggestions

My dell g15 5520 audio shuttering both in speaker and headset i tried disable audio enhance and update driver its still the issue

So I won this computer in a raffle exactly one year ago to the day. I've used it religiously since (it was so lucky cuz i had just broken my Chromebook). And here we are, the computer that was charging fine this morning now gives me "incompatible battery alerts" when nothing has happened. I didn't let it overheat or even use it today until 8pm when this happened. Right now it's charging and stuck at 5% despite being plugged in for like 30 mins on a computer charger. Is there anything I can do? If I need to get a new computer, can I transfer my info? This sucks

I have a Dell G15 laptop that I purchased 3 years ago. Right from the second week of my purchase, I started facing issues with the laptop. And when I called customer support about a replacement, they said it’s only valid for a week from the purchase date. So they kept changing parts. I constantly faced issues with it, I changed the motherboard once and the display three f***ing times. I extended the basic warranty for 2 years. Now I'm out of warranty And recently two weeks ago the motherboard of the laptop failed and they’re asking me to pay half the price of the laptop to get it repaired.
Such pathetic customer support they have!!!

Btw, I'm not even a gamer. I hardly ever played games on it. Like hardly!! I just played 3 light games on it in these 3 years. I only used it for general purpose And for coding that’s all.

Ey guys QQ, would rather change you 2020 del xps 13 9300 for a macbook air m5? I need to change mine but I'm not on the mood to invest 2 k on new hardware (Dell xps 14 ultra 7) just for a bigger battery. The mac is powerful and has a pretty decent battery. Any experience? BTW I work on lawfield and I need something powerful enough, classy and with a decent juice.

I purchased an optiplex 3070 small form and it refuses to turn on. I know little about computers, but I suspect bios corruption as indicated by the ,2 orange 5 white, pattern the light on the power button blinks.

Nothing shows on the two monitors aside from a “signal not found” message, they are connected via VGA cords.

I’ve tried doing the esc + ctrl while powering it on but it doesn’t work. Are there any other methods I can try? Thanks in advance.

I have been the using the 2026 Dell XPS 14 (OLED, Ultra X7 358H) for the last two weeks and am pretty disappointed with the battery life. According to several reviews, I should be getting more than 10 hours in real world use, but I am ranging between 6-8 hours. For reference, my use case is 75% screen brightness, 120hz with dynamic refresh rate on, light web browsing and video streaming, along with Spotify in the background. Is there something wrong with my unit or is this what I should expect?

Hey everyone, I’m honestly exhausted trying to fix this and wanted to ask if anyone here has faced something similar with a Dell laptop.

My laptop is a dell G15 5530

For the last 2 days, my laptop audio has been behaving really strangely, and now my warranty has literally just expired yesterday as well.

What’s happening:

Speakers sometimes disappears

Headphones randomly stop getting detected

Sometimes both speakers and headphones show up normally, but there’s still no sound

Audio occasionally comes back after a restart, then breaks again if I unplug/replug headphones

Devices randomly vanish and reappear

And when audio does work, it sometimes sounds crackly/distorted or laggy and then the sound is gone again

I’ve already spent hours trying fixes online and at this point I feel like I’ve tried almost everything software-related:

Restart/full shutdowns

Completely resetting/reinstalling Windows

Reinstalling Realtek/audio drivers multiple times

Device Manager uninstall/reinstall

Windows audio troubleshooter

Restarting audio services

Hidden device checks

Power management settings

BIOS diagnostics

Rolling back Windows updates

Different headphones

Manual Dell driver installs

Nothing has fixed it consistently.

Now I’m starting to worry this could actually be hardware-related (audio IC/motherboard/headphone jack/etc.).

So I just wanted to ask:

Has anyone here experienced this before?

Did it turn out to be hardware?

Since the warranty expired literally yesterday, is there any chance Dell might still help?

If it’s out-of-warranty hardware repair, what kind of charges should I expect in India?

Any advice would genuinely help because this has been super frustrating.