Mike from Dell here. Thirteen years ago, I made the bold🤣 decision to install BBM on my Android phone.

This screenshot is a reminder that we should all document our questionable technology choices for future reference. Somewhere out there, my past self was thinking, “BlackBerry Messenger on Android? Finally, the best of both worlds.”

History, and probably BlackBerry, disagreed.

I have a Dell Latitude 7280 running Windows and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in a dual-boot setup. Everything was working fine at first, but Ubuntu started freezing just after booting.

Now, the system becomes unresponsive either during startup or shortly after login.

Has anyone experienced this issue on a Dell Latitude 7280 or with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS? What could be causing it, and what are the best steps to fix it?

For context, ASUS Zenbook 14 experienced two 0x124 errors, with the second error resulting in permanent OS loss. I purchased this laptop FOURTEEN (14) months ago and now it’s unusable unless I replace the soldered motherboard. I kept it up to date with updates on OS and drivers, never ran any heavy applications, and barely took up any space on the SSD.

The laptop I’m looking at is the Dell 14S ds14265 in following specs:
2K OLED Touchscreen Laptop
AMD Ryzen 7 445 2026
16 GB Memory LPDDR5x
512 GB SSD (Unspecified)

Does anyone have positive/negatives experiences as well as insight to share about this laptop with the same (or similar) specs? Don’t want a similar situation as my ASUS.

Pls help me. I have an online midterm and FEA analysis due tomorrow 🥹

After several days of troubleshooting, I finally tracked down a Windows 11 taskbar auto-hide issue that had been driving me crazy. On my system, the problem appears to be caused by Dell TechHub.

The symptoms

·       Taskbar auto-hide stopped working reliably.

·       Moving the pointer to the bottom of the screen would not bring the taskbar back.

·       The problem occurred with maximized apps, including Edge, Notepad, and File Explorer.

·       At first, it looked like a Windows, graphics, or display-scaling issue.

System setup

Computer

·       ASUS ROG Strix G16 (G614PR)

·       AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

·       NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU

·       Windows 11 Home 26H2 (Build 26300.9711)

Monitor

·       Dell S2725QS 4K monitor

Dell software

·       Dell Display and Peripheral Manager 2.3.0.17

·       Dell Core Services 1.15.13.0

·       Dell Peripheral Core 2.3.0.104

What I tried

·       Changed DPI scaling settings

·       Restarted Explorer and rebooted Windows

·       Compared behavior in Edge, Notepad, and File Explorer

·       Tested with one monitor and with multiple monitors

·       Updated drivers

·       Performed a clean boot

What I found

During the clean boot, I re-enabled services one at a time. The results were consistent and repeatable:

·       Dell TechHub enabled: Taskbar auto-hide breaks.

·       Dell TechHub disabled: Taskbar auto-hide works normally.

·       TechHub re-enabled: The problem returns.

·       TechHub disabled again: The problem disappears.

I have reproduced this behavior multiple times.

Why this seems broader than one PC

I saw a very similar issue months ago on a completely different computer—a Dell Inspiron 16 Plus—and have now reproduced it on this ASUS laptop. The common factors are:

·       A Dell monitor

·       Dell Display and Peripheral Manager

·       Dell TechHub

The downside

Disabling Dell TechHub restores normal taskbar behavior, but Dell Display and Peripheral Manager can no longer communicate with the monitor.

Questions

·       Has anyone else run into this?

·       Is there a newer version of Dell TechHub or Dell Display and Peripheral Manager that fixes the issue?

I keep seeing this. I have tried everything possible. I have disabled secure boot and enabled and disabled again and again. This is so frustrating. What can I do to solve this? Please help I need my laptop to study for a test and this is just delaying the entire thing.

Is anyone else seeing issues as of late getting items from Dell? At the start of the month we had a printer that ended up getting lost with UPS. Now we have 3 orders that are in limbo, shipped on the 13th but show this in tracking for FedEx:

"Your tracking number can't be found. It may not be in our system yet or is expired. Double check the number with the shipper or try again later."

Support says it's a glitch with tracking or may have been lost...

On power up getting this error code flashing on the power button. Hitting F12 button repeatedly immediately after pressing power button produces no results. Any idea what the issue could be?

I returned a faulty unit to Dell and it’s been about a month now and still no money or exchange. I disputed with my bank and they say still they are going to give me a replacement and that has not happened and my shitty bank said they are going back and forth with Dell and they are fighting with them which I don’t know why as I sent them proof of what I ordered and them getting a return.

Hi guys, is anyone able to see the Dell "AlienFX board cable conversion kit" for sale? I think the product code is 470-bczc. Whenever I click on a google result link, I get sent back to the store frontpage. Didn't find any on ebay.

This started happening after i realised that the hard drive i took out, as i wanted to install lubuntu for some iOS stuff i wanted to do, and it said that there was no charger plugged in because my figure 8 cable on the brick had come out, so i made a mistake and plugged it in while the brick was plugged into the laptop, i also had ethernet plugged in, but thankfully the pins seem fine, the f12 menu, f2 menu, diagnostic menu, they all don't work, sometimes it will freeze on the post screen, sometimes it can show a black screen after the post screen or remove certain things like cutting off the dell logo, or making it completely disappear, or only show the bios revision (A06) fan still knows when to kick on, hard drive removed, dvd drive removed, wifi card removed, ram reseated

Hi guys. So I got a Dell Latitude 5430 i7 12 Gen 14 inch. I set the custom charge to start at 50% and stop at 80% through the Bios settings.

I use my laptop in a desk setup with a monitor as primary so my laptop lid is closed, and charger always connected.

When the battery reaches 80% the charging stops and the plugged in msg goes away. But after maybe an hour, it again shows plugged in...and charges to 81% and then stops again.

Again after and hour, it charges to 82% and then stops again.... Like that it continues till it ls full.

What​ can I do?

Just bought a dell ultrasharp u2723qe and due to some logistics problems i coudn`t test it properly but after some hard use i noticed some image retention with less than 5 minutes on a light screen web page. The monitor has 4 years of usage, is it normal for the time? Is there anything i can do to minimize it? Even on 70% brightness it happens and the seller just told me that this is normal with this panel.

My Dell latitude 7480 has been through a ton of issues

First of all it has very loud coil whine and keeps disconnecting and connecting and alot of weird noises happen (it just doesn't charge)

Type c port worked for a while but no longer works now for some reason

And the ram sometimes disconnects when I pull it

And sometimes the screen goes out of the frame

When I went to a local repair shop he told me there's a short circuit and then told me there something called 'Power ic' and that's broken and if he tries to replace It it might fry the cpu because it's near it(I don't know if he's yapping or what)

Someone help me plz 🥀🥀🥀

hi guys!
my laptop keeps getting crashed whenever its not put in a certain angle/ position but it has completely stopped working and not getting started. whats this issue, and how can i repair this? could anyone pls help me? Thanks so much!

I have an old dell 1909Wb and not long ago its brightness settings started bugging out. When pushing brightness past 80 or so, the screen shuts off entirely as if brightness is 0, increasing the settings brings the brightness up as expected but it starts from 0 brightness at that point.

So its effectively brightness 1-80 -> normal, 80-100 -> visually looks like brightness 0-20.

This used to only occur after level 90 a while back, so it seems to be slowly dwindling. Can't find anything on google or reddit mentioning this. Old monitor, probably not long until I retire it, figured I'd shoot here in case its a super simple fix.

Hey everyone, I've had this Latitude 7280 for quite some while, and I've ran into this issue which is that when I press the top left corner of the bottom half of the laptop near the fan grill thing the display glitches out and displays a colorful static, and then the computer freezes and I have to restart it. I have Debian installed on the machine and when I accidentally pressed it during boot it had a kernel panic. Can you help me out here? Happy to give you any info you guys need to help.

I recently bought a Dell Latitude 7520 with a fan issue. I wanted to use Dell optimizer to decrease the fan speed, however, despite me running it with Admin privileges and while on the admin account, I still keep getting blocked from using the app. After trying to run it, i get an issue about not being able to access the specific file path

Any suggestions on what I should do?

After the sudden and sad death of my Macbook, I'm looking for a new laptop for school. Found a 2021 Dell XPS 7390 with i7, 16GB, 512GB on Marketplace for 500 USD, or 700 CAD where I am. For school I'd like a laptop that can last at least a day (6 hours), I can take notes on, isnt crazy hot and has decent performance. Is this a solid laptop and/or a solid deal? TIA

For some reason my f4 doesnt mute my mic anymore. I used to be able to just tap f4 the light would come on and the mic would be muted, now when i tap it nothing happens, I have checked if it was the fn lock but it wasnt. Can you guys help me out please?

How has your experience been with the laptop.

I am interested in buying it and looking for reviews.

I want it for studying engineering at university.

My specific model has:

Core i7 12800H

16 gb ddr5 memory

Nvidia A2000(8gb)

FHD display

Hey everyone, I'm hoping someone here has run into this before.
My Dell G15 5530 won't turn on at all. No fans, no screen, nothing. The battery LED on the side never lights up, whether it's plugged in or not.
Here's what I've already tried:
Unplugged the charger, disconnected the battery, held the power button for a while, then reconnected and tried to boot;
Ran it with the battery disconnected, using only the charger;
Tried the M-BIST test (hold M while plugging in the charger). The LED didn't light up or blink at all;
Nothing changes the result. The LED stays off in every case.
Since I can't even get the M-BIST LED to react, I'm guessing it's something on the power side, like the DC jack, the charging circuit or the motherboard, but I'd love a second opinion before I take it to a shop.
Has anyone seen this on the G15 5530? Any other tests I should try before giving up? Thanks in advance!

I've spent weeks troubleshooting inconsistent and unusually slow download speeds on my Dell XPS 13 running Windows 11.

My internet connection is Xfinity Gigabit, and other devices in my home consistently perform much better.

I've tried updating drivers, changing Wi-Fi settings, testing different monitor configurations, and even purchasing a new Thunderbolt dock. Nothing consistently resolved the problem.

Today, I completely uninstalled Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender VPN, and Bitdefender Agent.

The results were remarkable:

• Before uninstalling Bitdefender: Approximately 160 Mbps download
• After uninstalling Bitdefender: 646.84 Mbps download
• Same laptop, location, Wi-Fi connection, dock, and monitor

That's roughly a fourfold improvement.

I also previously experienced problems with Bitdefender on my iPhone, where certain applications, including Ticketmaster and my NFL ticketing app, wouldn't allow me to sign in until I removed Bitdefender.

I'm planning additional testing to confirm the Windows results, but I'm interested in hearing from others.

Has anyone experienced similar download speed degradation with Bitdefender Total Security? If so, did you identify the specific feature or driver responsible, and was there a fix?

I'd prefer to use software I've already paid for, but not at the expense of my computer's performance.