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Question from Jamie: Hi, Rick. I have an old Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop that has several missing and broken keys (don’t ask lol).
The rest of the laptop works fine, but the keyboard is unusable.
Do you think it can be replaced? [Read more…]
Question from David G.: I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop that my sister accidentally sat on and broke the screen.
The computer still worked fine when it was plugged into an external monitor though, so I removed the lid to get it out of the way so I could use it as a desktop PC.
The problem is ever since the screen was removed I can’t connect to the Internet with the built-in Wi-Fi.
I reinstalled the drivers for the Wi-Fi adapter and checked everything I know to check, but it just won’t connect even though I can see the network in the list of available networks. Can you tell me what I need to do to fix it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]