1. The short answer is that in some systems you can get it to work and other will not.When you power it down and move the drive to the add on card boot to bios and see if the drive shows. It may or may not, hopefully it shows under hard drive choice. Also having an option to boot from choices may help.Read more

    The short answer is that in some systems you can get it to work and other will not.

    When you power it down and move the drive to the add on card boot to bios and see if the drive shows. It may or may not, hopefully it shows under hard drive choice. Also having an option to boot from choices may help. Even a pci-express boot option may have to be selected. I suspect that the boot order needs to be edited each time you swap between internal and pci-e.

    I doubt all of this will speed up your system.

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  2. I'd bet a ton of money (if I had more than $.1 in my pocket) that the light you are seeing is an LED and consumes VERY little power. It may be running off the battery on the mother board or even off the residual charges in the myriad of capacitors all over the place in there. Either way it is normalRead more

    I’d bet a ton of money (if I had more than $.1 in my pocket) that the light you are seeing is an LED and consumes VERY little power. It may be running off the battery on the mother board or even off the residual charges in the myriad of capacitors all over the place in there. Either way it is normal and should not be of any concern unless it goes out or turns red! 🙂 See less
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  3. In this regard there are two solutions namely: Hardware and start PC with some bootable CD/DVD tools(BIOS password removal).For hardware: There is always a system maintenance switch on every system board through administrative tasks can be performed. This switch is always off by default and what youRead more

    In this regard there are two solutions namely: Hardware and start PC with some bootable CD/DVD tools(BIOS password removal).

    For hardware: There is always a system maintenance switch on every system board through administrative tasks can be performed. This switch is always off by default and what you only need to do is to disassemble the PC and power up the main board then ON those switches for 3-5 minutes then re-assemble the PC, then the password would be removed. This is apply to Desktop only.

    For the fact that the PC is a laptop: I would advice you remove the keyboard and upper casing and remove CMOS battery connection cable or you remove CBS battery depend on the system board architect and power the board without CMOS battery in place and later return it.
    NOTE: Your finger must not touch the CMOS battery connecting part.

    For bootable CD/DVD tools: You can get window XP 2009 Dark Edition SP2 and start the PC with it then you select an option besides install window XP 2009 Dark Edition SP2, then among the option displayed there is one for BOIS password removing.

    ADVICE: I will advise you to get a CD/DVD tool for the fact that the PC is a laptop and difficult to disassemble and reassemble.

    In case non workout fine which I think would work, think of replacing the hard drive and if there is data on it slave with an enclosure to recover data on the passworded disk.

    Thanks.

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  4. Okay, quick test, when you turn your computer on tap the f12 key, does your boot menu come up? If it does then there is a windows problem, if it does not then it's a keyboard problem.If your keyboard is bad, your computer is still under warranty and you should contact Dell to get it replaced.

    Okay, quick test, when you turn your computer on tap the f12 key, does your boot menu come up? If it does then there is a windows problem, if it does not then it’s a keyboard problem.

    If your keyboard is bad, your computer is still under warranty and you should contact Dell to get it replaced.

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  5. Have you tried pressing F5 for more information?Normally this error occurs when there is a loss of signal, which can often be attributed to a loose cable. Have you moved the computer around lately? If you are comfortable to taking a look, remove the access pannel and make sure the connections are seRead more

    Have you tried pressing F5 for more information?

    Normally this error occurs when there is a loss of signal, which can often be attributed to a loose cable. Have you moved the computer around lately? If you are comfortable to taking a look, remove the access pannel and make sure the connections are secure. Just make sure to use normal precautions when messing around in there.

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  6. Just found what I was thinking of...probably what you were too:http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/c...

    Just found what I was thinking of…probably what you were too:

    http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/c…

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  7. Fingers is right, tho it is still possible with a bit of hassle:https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comm...If i had the choice idd go with the 60% extra performance, but hey, its up to youi5-6600K[delid]@4.7GHz/4.3GHz@1.376v LLC=6 | 2x4GB Crucial-DDR4-2133CL15@14-14-14-28 1T 2700MHz@1.35vMSI Armor RX 570Read more

    Fingers is right, tho it is still possible with a bit of hassle:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comm…

    If i had the choice idd go with the 60% extra performance, but hey, its up to you

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  8. Changing the CPU in a laptop can be very tricky. It's likely that dozens of tiny screws will have to be removed, along with the screen, keyboard, heatsink/fan, etc. According to the spec sheet, your laptop has an Intel Celeron P4600 which is a socket PGA988 CPU. I'm guessing it's about 7 years old?Read more

    Changing the CPU in a laptop can be very tricky. It’s likely that dozens of tiny screws will have to be removed, along with the screen, keyboard, heatsink/fan, etc. According to the spec sheet, your laptop has an Intel Celeron P4600 which is a socket PGA988 CPU. I’m guessing it’s about 7 years old?

    http://support.toshiba.com/support/…

    You will have to do some digging to find out which CPUs are supported. The following site states the Intel Core i3 370M & Intel Core i5 480M were used in the L635 series, but that’s not a guarantee. You can find either of those CPUs on eBay for about $10. The integrated HD Graphics are the same in all 3 CPUs; the only difference is the i5 has a slightly higher turbo-boost. So no matter which CPU you have, graphics performance will not change.

    https://www.notebookcheck.net/Toshi…

    CPU Boss says “CPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the Core i5 480M vs the Celeron P4600”.

    http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-…

    Maxing out the RAM to 8GB & replacing the HDD with a SSD, plus a fresh install of Windows will definitely boost overall performance. But your money might be better spent on a new laptop.

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  9. While you are waiting for other ideas here are some basic thoughts:http://www.techhive.com/article/245...Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks

    While you are waiting for other ideas here are some basic thoughts:
    http://www.techhive.com/article/245…

    Always pop back and let us know the outcome – thanks

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  10. Yilmaz Ekici,Go HERE and download ThumbsUp. This open-source utility tool extracts thumbnails from a Thumbs.db file to a set of JPG files that you can save for your archives.ThumbsUp is a JAR file. If you are not familiar with JAR, follow instructions HERE to extract it.Let us know if this is the "mRead more

    Yilmaz Ekici,

    Go HERE and download ThumbsUp. This open-source utility tool extracts thumbnails from a Thumbs.db file to a set of JPG files that you can save for your archives.

    ThumbsUp is a JAR file. If you are not familiar with JAR, follow instructions HERE to extract it.

    Let us know if this is the “more optimal solution” you are looking for.

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