Dell :: Battery Not Lasting On I9400

Sep 25, 2007

I've only had my Inspiron 9400 since May. I have used it on both battery and power, but most of the time power. Recently I've had to start using the battery more, from 100% charge showing if I unplug it from the power, it immidietly drops to 90% but shows I have about 2 hours of play. Is this just a dud battery. I have had dell previously and my battery was fantastic, even 3 years after buying it.

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I've just purhased the above for my son who is in hospital having chemo at present. Very disappointed with the battery that is only lasting for approx 1.5 hours. I have it set to a balanced use and so far the laptop has only been used for surfing, etc.

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Dell :: I9400 W/ Go7800

Aug 16, 2007

I was on here this afternoon trying to find a thread that shows some good overclocks people have gotten with the Geforce GO 7800 that is in my Inspiron 9400. But sometimes i swear I am the last person on this planet who actually HAS this card still. Not a GTS, GS, etc etc. Just a plain old severely underclocked to 250 GO 7800...

Has everyone managed to get a GS or 7900 or GTS or any of the other variations of cards the 9400 has had over the past year to two years? Everyone but me?

I have heard of people getting Dell to replace thier 7800 with 7800s but the last post I found about that was like a year old.

What could I ask Dell to replace mine with if I was to talk with them via chat? I would love any help in this matter. Everytime I game with my laptop I overclock it, but then I put it back to normal. Kind of a pain, and of course I hate how hot it gets.

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Sep 28, 2007

way to get the Inspiron E1705/9400 to accept more memory? Dell says the max is 2gb but an XPS m1710 has 4gb. Is it just a matter of flashing the BIOS? Or should I be able to pop 4gb in it and that's it? I want to make sure I can get it to accept it before I buy it.

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Dell :: BSOD After Upgrading I9400 To A NV7900gs

Sep 9, 2007

I upgraded my inspiron to a 7900 gs from x1400 a while back now (3months ago) and it has been running smoothly (games like quake 4/lotro at high graphics).

However, i have recently started playing Bioshock and after about 10 minutes of gameplay i got a blue screen of death with the following error:

Tried to write to read only memory (or something along those lines)

It specifies a NV4.dsp file

Was wondering if it is a driver problem or hardware?(running bioshock on high settings by the way (1440x900 res) and when it does run it runs well - a very playable 30-60fps)
One thing to note is that i didnt format when upgrading the video card - could there be conflicting drivers?

My sys specs are as follows :

intel duo t2400 (1.83)
2gig 667 ram
nvidia (dual pipe) 7900 gs (running stock on Mobile Force drivers).........

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My friend has Inspiron 9400 that's on its last legs, it keeps turning off at random times, graphics on screen sometimes become corrupted. The laptop does not seem to be overheating and the fans are clean.

We've contacted Dell as he has a 3yr Complete care package, he's had the HDD replaced multiple times. The last time he sent in the laptop for serving they returned it with nothing fixed, they said they replaced the fans but the fans are still the original ones as I accidentally scratched the bottom side of the fans and they're the exact same one .....

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Well the black keyboard that comes on the 9400/E1705 is a tad bit too loud for my taste. I was thinking of swapping it out for the M1710 keyboard, if its any quieter. At least mine here on the 9400 you can hear a mile away if you're typing away, and the "Enter" key is especially noisy.

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Jan 1, 2008

My i9400 died last Tuesday. While sitting idle on a marble topped end table the fans went wide open for 15 seconds and then it just turned off. Not shut down, just dead. I went to bed figuring this must have been an overheat protection shutdown and tried to crank it up the next day and nothing. Hit the power button and the green light blips once and thats it.

I have the top of the line warranty and next day service so Dell came out 2 days later (not next day but close enough at first) and replaced the MB and fans. This got us nowhere. He gets on the phone with Dell and they send another MB and Processor as well for the next day.

Visit two with another MB and new processor produced nothing again. The field tech (pretty knowledgeable) said that this would have to go back to dell and that I needed to call them.

So I call them and they say that a third visit would be required I said fine send whoever, this thing is not coming back to life and my business is being severely hampered by this notebook being down. They try to re-diagnose over the phone and corectly come to the conclusion (again) that the computer is toast.

My problem is this: They finally conceded to me returning this $4000 brick to them but I could not get a i9400 loaner overnighted to throw my HD in to get back up. I've got my HD out and in an external enclosure but this really slows things down finding files and loading apps on another computer that is already slower to start with.

I've got a business to run and it is running slower with this laptop being down. I was told by Dell it would take 2 days to get a box to return the computer in and then 5-8 days to repair it and then shipping after that. An exchange would be up to 2 weeks total turnaround time...........

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second question.
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The battery itself is only 1 month old and has been performing flawlessly. I just thought it was something random so I plugged the machine in and it started up.

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May 15, 2013

My Dell XPS 15z is showing the following problem :-- if I try to boot it with the battery connected (and AC power either plugged in or not), the orange power light flashes briefly and then the machine shuts down- if I remove the back of the case, disconnect the battery, connect the AC power cable and boot, the system boots as normal

Other observations

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What are the next diagnostic steps?What is the likely fault - could replacing the battery unit solve the problem or is is the component which charges the battery which is likely to be faulty?The laptop is 18 months old but only covered by a one year warranty with Dell.

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Is there a particular Dell battery I can buy that should last a bit longer?

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I've done all the Software Updates, Batter Update 1.3, and tried resetting the PRAM. So far none of these have worked. Now I'm out of ideas. Before after going thru those steps, the problem would be fixed... not so this time.

I know they extended the warranty and were replacing the batteries for free, but not sure this one would be covered under that.

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i am using acer aspire 5600 xp/vista and LION battery.

my battery had memory effect once and could work for like 15-20 min.but its indicator worked fine at that time.

but now memory effect is gone and i am now facing a new problem.

At full charging, system shows that battery is not connected even it is connected.even if i unplug the AC supply still it thinks that notebook is running from AC supply.During this period i cant use my laptop keyboard and touchpad.I Can use only externally connected keyboard and mouse.

While notebook is using the laptop battery(Ac Unplugged),after sometime it detects the battery and the indicator shows 7% of battery time.Then my notebook keyboard and touchpad starts to work and then this percentage decreases to 0%. The time between shift of percentage is approx 10 min . Even On 0% the battery works fine and works for like 15 min. Overall Battery can work for like 1 hr 30 min approx(Low Performance).

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Jun 8, 2009

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