Recent content by jakehardware

Thanks for the explanation, the network card I have is older, I will look at buying a newer one that supports 802.11ac 5g. Cheers

Hello, I have 400Mbps plan. Most of my devices reach that speed over WiFi. However, on my pc WiFi, with different speed test websites I get 30-40 Mbps. With ethernet I get 430. In my network settings, the link speed shows 144Mbps so I would like to know if I can increase my download speed to...

Good news! I downloaded and installed the bios version from Dell's website that was already on my laptop, got message saying Dell doesn't recommend installing the same version but I did anyway and now my keyboard is fixed! Cheers

thanks for that link ,it seems very helpful, I will try to install the latest BIOS update from dell even if I already have it, If not, I will look into getting a replacement keyboard Thanks

don't have a wired keyboard to test unfortunately, booted into safe made and the issue remains, windows key, 7, dot, 1 on keypad are doing different functions booted to BIOS and issue remains but in bios the 7 key is showing semicolon symbol instead of a dash, thoughts on that? laptop is...

Hi, thanks for the suggestions, sfc /scannow Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. dism No component store corruption detected. I restarted but still the issue remains, checked reliability history and did not see keyboard issues

Hello, After a windows 10 update, some of my keys are not working properly: Dot key not working, if I do shift+dot it acts as a mouse right click, my number 7 key now types dash symbol but 7 on keypad still works, Windows Key and number 1 on keypad doesn't work My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 17...