I want to ask you that my laptop works completely fine, but when i use my laptop for Adobe Photoshop or coral draw, it gets over heated, and fan starts running so fast, abd it decrease the performance, some times it gets extremely hot so i have to shut it down for sometime and use it again.

I have cleaned the fan, changed the thermal paste abd tried everything, but i still face the same problem.

I use cooling pad when i use my laptop. But still i have this issue. Can you tell me what to do?

⟐ Commented August 21, 2025 at 2:59 MST

I know this may be a bit exotic for the iFixit community and that's fine. I purchased 2 E7440 i7 FHD Touch systems as a lot for almost nothing compared to what they get complete, so I took a chance and both were easily repaired - even if it took a new drive (pulled), spare RAM and 2 LCDs (1 with TAB issues, other from a junk system that was too far gone - fried inductor and dead shorted motherboard). I’ve blurred the tags to protect the previous company if anyone knows.

PART 1: I noticed this because I needed to confirm the tag on the bottom matched for the ownership transfer (otherwise I remove the sticker, and replace or leave blank) so I decided to make sure it's not hiding an asset tag while I was there after it passed the tester hard drive check (shows in BIOS).

PART 2: When I checked for anything I want to change in the BIOS before I install Windows, I did go though the BIOS to see if I need/want to adjust anything and they have a BIOS asset tag. The issue with Dell is you can’t clear this out in the BIOS once set (although it can be set in BIOS) and it persists. I did some research and I think I know what tools I need to use, but I’m not 100% clear. It looks like a job for CCTK (Dell Command|Configure) on the E7440, since it’s such a new machine that may not work with the legacy Platform Tag Utility.

Is there any instructions on how to do it I should be aware of, and which one will clear it out? Normally I’d know this, but you do not run into this every day.

⟐ Commented December 25, 2020 at 12:02 MST

``Okay, there’s a problem with my dads Dell Latitude E7440. The issue is basically that when it’s connected to power (doesn’t matter if it is a power cord or the battery) and i press the power button lights up, it stays on for a couple of seconds then the light is gone and the battery icon starts blinking and eventually turns off and everything goes black. There is no display during this and also the fan is not spinning :(. As i looked up some youtube tutorials on how to fix the issue, someone said that removing the CMOS battery and replacing it may solve it. My dad said it was a fried motherboard, and i think it is too. Tried removing the CMOS and booting up without it, same issue. Removing the ram and inspecting the motherboard. Nothing helped and the mobo looked perfectly fine, I really want to surprise him and give the laptop back working. Thought about buying a new motherboard but decided to reach out to you guys before doing something stupid.

⟐ Answered May 27, 2025 at 13:29 MST

⟐ Commented September 18, 2025 at 1:15 MST

I have tried throwing the book at this laptop and nothing sticks - Reset the BIOS in the UI, pulled the CMOS battery and dumped the BIOS settings for the default checksum and tried to stop and restart the audio hardware in Device Manager - NOTHING fixes the issue short of uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling the Dell driver and then it happens again.

Is there any way I can fix this, or at least quickly make sure it is (or isn’t) due to the motherboard? It’s seeming more like a motherboard level fault by the day, especially since it persists. It does pass system management testing (and audio tests) consistently when this happens, so I’m beginning to suspect a higher level intermittent fault.

⟐ Commented September 07, 2021 at 22:06 MST

⟐ Commented April 04, 2022 at 0:09 MST

Dell latitude E7440

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12S4zv53...

Please see the video.

Thanks

⟐ Answer accepted December 06, 2021 at 20:42 MST

⟐ Commented July 25, 2026 at 23:29 MST

⟐ Answered February 22, 2026 at 0:16 MST

Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.5.50

Copyright (C) 1997-2013, Intel Corporation

PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.

No Boot Device Found. Press any key to reboot the machine_

From dell lattitude e7440

⟐ Answer accepted November 25, 2025 at 5:43 MST

the specs are

intel core i7 4600u

8gb ram

256ssd

please help, i could barely afford this laptop and i would hate to return it cuz it has all i want and more. thank you

⟐ Commented June 03, 2025 at 2:45 MST

I'm experiencing an issue with my Dell Latitude E7440 (non-touchscreen version). It started last week when I noticed that the bottom corner of my display was black. At that time, after a few minutes, the screen returned to normal. However, now the entire screen goes black occasionally. I found that adjusting the brightness (increasing and then decreasing it) while the laptop is connected to power seems to fix the problem, but this trick doesn’t work when the laptop is running on battery.

Despite this, the bottom corner of the screen still remains black, and this hasn't changed. Additionally, I noticed that the battery seems to be swelling, though I'm not sure if that's related to the display issue.

Has anyone experienced something similar, or have any idea what might be going on? I’ve attached some pictures for reference.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Laptop model: Dell Latitude E7440 (non-touchscreen version)
Symptoms:

• Bottom corner of the screen is black.
• Entire screen goes black sometimes but can be fixed with brightness adjustments (only on power).
• Swelling battery (don't know if related).
  
  

⟐ Commented October 25, 2024 at 4:38 MST

This is the second time it has not properly hibernated - first time was forcefully shut down, and the 2nd incident didn’t even bother properly hibernating - just shutdown without saving the contents to the drive. Even worse now is this issue has cost me battery calibration logging I was doing to see how much life my 73-75% health pack has left since it’s my last battery.

Has anyone looked at these laptops at the BIOS level closely to see if there’s any settings that cause this? A25 BIOS and the install is from Feb. 22 so it’s not even that old to suspect bad software yet. I can wipe and reinstall Windows with a fresh 20H2 image, but the time to setup that is enough I want to exhaust some reasonable options first. This doesn’t feel like the laptop is plagued by the Spectre microcode restart glitch to me.

Well, the audio is also super flaky too - works when it wants to :/.

Either the HW is dying, or the OS needs a redo.

⟐ Answer accepted July 30, 2021 at 10:30 MST

I need urgent support in changing it or repairing it

⟐ Commented October 27, 2020 at 23:40 MST

⟐ Commented August 02, 2025 at 12:20 MST

This laptop has been through a lot - the original problem was related to hibernation, which I let go of as it didn’t happen consistently. However, not too long after the audio failed intermittently, which I suspected a failing motherboard. I reinstalled Windows for a 3rd time* and the issue of hibernation persisted.
*1st reinstall was to move the SSD from a E6440 to this E7440 - I probably could have reused it since a lot of the hardware between HSW E6/E7 machines are identical, but I didn’t want to risk getting my 10 Pro key invalidated and blacklisted. 2nd was to rule out other issues, and the 3rd was to fix the audio problem.

In addition to reinstalling Windows THREE TIMES, I also changed the hard drive cable to rule out the possibility. It has been fine since, but it failed again.

However, a new more serious issue has come up. I went to fire it up to check my library against the replacement, and it said there were disk errors so I restarted it. However, it has been stuck here for like, 5-10+ minutes and no progress has been made. It repaired the disk errors, but keeps perpetually scanning the drive for errors. The CS900 works perfectly in my touch E7440s, so it’s probably not an SSD incompatibility. This non-touch one was a grab I got for the screen, but was 768p so I couldn’t use the screen and shelved it until the E6440 began to age and I put a blem FHD screen in.

See here:

At this point, is there any hope left for this laptop, or is it beyond repair? I also cannot keep reinstalling Windows for reasons I will not mention here openly as the CS900 is likely a 75TBW SSD and Windows reinstalls can be hard on these drives. I also cannot realistically go back to Win8 due to the 2023 EOL issue.

⟐ Commented November 27, 2021 at 6:34 MST

The way the copy pack failed is it wouldn’t charge, so what I did was uninstalled the Microsoft AC adapter driver, and both of the ACPI battery drivers (these laptops support a E-Port dock battery, so I have two drivers installed). While it made it charge, Dell Command|Power Manager complained the battery is toast, and the pack instantly jumped to 100% from 10%.

*The 34Wh expanded, so it has since been recycled :(. Not surprised, sadly.

When I plug the OEM in, I don’t see any issues which are reported by my laptop and even in Dell Command|Power Manager, it shows up as good. See here:

Knockoff

⟐ Edited by author April 08, 2021 at 22:02 MST

⟐ Commented December 16, 2019 at 3:18 MST