I have the Inspiron 6000 since 2005 without any problem, but it has been used sparingly by my wife from 2009 till now, that a boot problem started. After I start the laptop (with no computer password), it would try to run the BIOS (showing the big DELL with www.dell.

Oddly enough it seems that the track pad/mouse pointer stops working when the screen is black. e.g. during the time the screen is black the pointer on the screen doesn't move. I thought it might be related to the back light on the keyboard or the touch buttons.

I've just installed and configured the Dell Management Plugin for VMware vCenter (mouthful!) and have successfully managed to update our new R815s running ESX 5.1. When I run a connection test against our old R805s (ESX 5.