Dell Authorized Service Center in Mumbra India

There is no dedicated button for a force restart of your Dell laptop. But, you can achieve the same through the power on-off button. If your laptop hangs quite frequently or for other similar nagging reasons you may need to hard reboot your laptop. For doing a force restart follow these steps: Press and hold the power button for around 10 seconds. It will turn off your laptop and drain the residual power from your laptop. Disconnect your laptop charger. Wait for 30 seconds to 1 minute, and reconnect your charger. Turn on your laptop. This is the most used process, as recommended by the official Dell community, for a hard reboot of your Dell laptop.

Officially called LCD Built-in-self-test or BIST. Through this test, you will be able to find the exact cause of where the screen abnormalities are getting initiated. Follow this process: Turn off the laptop. Clean your LCD screen and make sure that there are no filth or dust particles present on your LCD screen. Disconnect other devices from your laptop. Connect the AC adapter or the laptop battery charger. Press and hold the ‘D’ button and turn on the laptop. After a while, your Dell laptop will automatically go into LCD BIST mode. Watch the different color bars as they change and locate if there are any screen abnormalities. If you find any screen problem while the laptop is under the LCD BIST mode then the problem is an inherent Hardware problem. If there is no screen issue during this BIST process, then the screen problem may be occurring from the outdated GPU driver or any other Graphic driver. Hit the button to get out of this LCD BIST mode. There are other diagnostic tools that you can run on your Dell laptop. Simply, follow this blog to understand more - https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-in/000124390/how-to-run-diagnostic-test-on-a-dell-monitor. If there are any other hardware-related issues and you are not being able to locate the exact problem then its time to take your laptop to a trusted Dell laptop repair center near you like the NSS laptop repair center.

There can be many reasons for a long starting up time. Check and analyze these areas: Are too many programs starting up with the actual OS startup? You need to make sure that the absolutely necessary programs are allowed to startup when the laptop is getting turned on. If this is the issue, you can easily trim the number of programs from starting up with the OS. Simply, launch the ‘Task manager’ by simultaneously pressing the ‘Ctrl+Alt+Delete’ buttons. On the Task manager window go to the startup tab and disable the programs that you do not want to set up when the laptop starts up. Secondly, check if you have enough RAM installed or not. Because, at the time of OS boot up, RAM experiences enhanced processing pressure from the OS than normal computing time. Now, if you do not have the necessary amount of RAM installed, the whole start-up process will take a longer time to complete. Thirdly, you may have accidentally installed a broken program that is causing the problem. Additionally, it may be the case that your laptop is suffering from a malicious program or a virus. Lastly, there may be other OS-related issues or there may be other hardware-related problems that are initiating this problem. If you are unable to locate the issue take your laptop to a trusted Dell laptop repair center near you like NSS.