You're probably right. I have ordered another drive to make a backup to and it seems that the technician had a problem receiving some pieces, so the whole issue is on standby at the moment. If after this ordeal the problem reappears, I'll be sure to keep the thread updated.
Thanks!
Sadly that was one of the first things I tried, and as of now things only got weirder.
Turns out that it may indeed be a hardware issue, but it honestly leaves me perplexed how the issue happened in the first place given the seeming lack of connection between the symptoms and the device causing...
Sorry about that mess, I think I managed to remove the color formatting that was changing the text's color, so to make everything simpler I opened this thread.
Thanks for the patience and for the help!
Hey there everyone!
First time post, so please let me know if I end up missing anything (This one's a repost since for some reason the last attempt ended up unreadable for most users, and since I can't edit the main post, I'm trying again and seeing if it makes a difference).
Since the last...
Okay, I just tried toggling over to the forum's dark mode and I see where you're coming from.
I did write those posts with the light mode enabled, so perhaps some property of the text was copied and I didn't notice by chance.
Too bad there's no way to edit the main post or see the HTML before...
You're absolutely right, my bad.
I haven't been able to find an edit button, so let me try that again (It seems the formatting got erased when copying the text over form the Dell forum):
Hey there everyone!
First time post, so please let me know if I end up missing anything.
Since the last...
Hey there everyone!
First time post, so please let me know if I end up missing anything.
Since the last BIOS update for my laptop (Alienware m15 R6) (1.20.0) I've been having issue with high consumption of CPU time and resources from both the WMI Provider Service and the Device Association...