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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

DELL Vostro

Another PC frustration.  We bought this in 2013 and it was a very slow PC right from the start.  One staff member after another got frustrated and to placate them I would buy a replacement.  The time has come to take it away so that we preserve our staff's sanity.

15-1-2015
Phoned Dell customer support.  Spoke to Sherinda. 
Ran hardware tests Power On>F12  --> All OK

20-1-2015
Phoned Dell customer support on 1800 812 392
Shaleni advised check and upgrade the bios.
Bios was A04.  Current bios is A11.
To download the new bios.  Goto dell.com/support
Enter the Service Tag number (On the underside of the PC)
Select downloads>bios and down load an exe file.
Run that.  A reboot happens and its done.

She also suggested  to check if all the drivers have loaded.
I go to control panel>Device manager and there are no issues showing.
I also note that on the dell web site there are lots of drivers.  I may check versions one by one.  That is a after hours job for home.

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