Yea, you are welcome to join us here at our new Dell Inspiron 1420 thread. Nevertheless, I can't add you into our "List of Glory" as apparently you are not a Dell Inspiron 1420 user. SORRY. Oh yea, I saw from your last post that you are the one who help to maintain your GF's laptop and you encountered bluetooth problem? Actually, the laptop's bluetooth started to malfunction since when? After you have reformat her laptop or ... ? As I heard from other Dell Inspiron 1420 users, they are also having the same problem except lugiamcg who said he got a solution from "prasys" . So, maybe you can ask "prasys" directly? I will only can assist you after I have finished my exam on 9 March 2010 because I plan to switch to Windows 7 too.

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Added on February 14, 2010, 4:24 pmYea, certainly I will inform you if I have the solution. However, I will be very busy till 9 March 2010 as I have exams coming on. Thus, maybe you can PM "prasys" as I have stated at the previous post. So far I have known, he is the only person who know how to solve the bluetooth issue. All the best!

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 14 2010, 04:25 PM

the bluetooth got prob b4 i 4mat to w7 ultimate,
now my gf say sumtimes its ok n sumtimes not...

O.I.C ... then i'm not really sure about it. Maybe there is a hardware problem. You can try to scan your hardware & see whether the bluetooth card is working properly.

Furthermore, is there any possibilities that your GF accidentally switch off the bluetooth? For instance, please refer to the picture below:

that wifi switch rght

Initially, I think like that too. However, the bluetooth always go off when I switch it off. Thus, I believe that the switch has to be connected to the bluetooth. From the 2nd picture, you can notice that the bluetooth indicator light goes off when I switch it off ... In order to verify my hypothesis is true, maybe you can try on your GF's laptop ...

C2D 1.8GHz
2GB Ram
220GB HDD
8400M GS

After just 1.4 year+ got hit by the GFX card.
Swap the motherboard.

Welcome to our new Dell Inspiron 1420 thread. Thanks for sharing with us your specifications of your laptop. First and foremost, I have heard from you that your Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop occured GPU problem after 1.4 years of usage and eventually lead to the failure of motherboard. At that moment, are you still in warranty period? If not, how much you need to pay for your swapping of motherboard?

Besides that, how much your laptop cost you when you 1st bought it? Like mine, I have bought mine for RM 3700 including a Targus backpack.


PS: I have added your name into our "List of Glory" ...

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 16 2010, 02:57 AM

Around Rm2700+
The thing about the GPU is.
If that fail. You must swap the motherboard.

Just recently. Swap OS. To XP.

O.I.C ... Anyway, why don't you try on the Microsoft's newest OS- Windows 7. I think it will run as smooth as Windows XP too ...

I get W7 when I can.

Oh yea, how many years of warranty do you have for your laptop?

Inspiron 1420 user that lost his laptop T_T

Sorry to hear that. Actually, when you lost your Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop & how did it being stolen? As I saw from your location status- Melbourne, Australia, did you lost your laptop there?

This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 17 2010, 01:16 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, I would like to share with you guys my laptop accessories which I have used them along with my Dell Inspiron 1420 for 2 years. Hereby, I would like to show you guys my mouse, that is, V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for Bluetooth (White) . For your informations, I bought my mouse right after I received my laptop. The main reason I bought Logitech mouse is because I personally believe the quality built that was promised by Logitech though the price was quite high at that time. The colour is white which I purposely chose it in order to match it with my alpine white laptop. Below are some pictures of my precious mouse:





This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 18 2010, 06:23 AM

hello Jeffrey...was invited here by u...lol...actually the post was for my uncle...wanted a quick solution but now since new year is gone so...i forgot the specs...haha...btw need to change the motherboard if the screen got blur??cause it cost around RM400 le....

You are welcome to our thread though ... Actually, Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop has GPU problem ... did your uncle's laptop equipped with NVidea GeForce 8M?

from wat i know...i think so....

Hello guys,

Today, I would like to share with you guys my Dell Inspiron 1420's Benchmark. As you can see from my screenshots, my CPU and GPU temperatures are relatively high. How about you guys?



This post has been edited by Jeffrey1987: Feb 27 2010, 11:33 PM

from wat i know laptops are like tat. where did u use it when u do this? when it is on ur lap?for laptops there is this cooler that u can put under the laptops...

I did the temperature measurement by lying my laptop on my table without using any laptop cooler. The room temperature here is around 20 degree celcius as now is still consider winter at Germany. In my opinion, the CPU and GPU temperatures are quite high compared to other laptops. How about your uncle's one?