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Dell E6400/E6500 problems thread

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by MiB, Sep 18, 2008.

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  1. MiB

    MiB Notebook Consultant

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    These came with mine. I also formatted and reinstalled and installed these and have same skipping issues. I did not notice the drifting issue with the drivers. Though I wasn't able to use the TrackPoint and Touchpad much with the drivers because of such bad skipping. I uninstalled them after just a couple minutes of use.
     
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    I wonder why then I haven't noticed this on other laptop and PC keyboards? Maybe all the others I have used are a more 'high-end' circuit and the new Dell one is considered lower end? Or is it possibly the alignment of the matrix in comparison with others?
     
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    Thanks for this info. The only problem with this equation is that this isn't a low end Dell notebook and considered it's also used in their flagship Precision lineup this isn't good.
     
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    I am still trying to confirm if this is an issue on the M4400/2400. My gut would say yes as it looks like the exact same keyboard/mousing components. But you never know...

    It isn't THAT big of an issue... But it was one of the things I noticed and still bothers me. I guess I may just need to get used to it. :(
     
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    I have never before used a full size keyboard, cheap, laptop, or other which behaves this way. The D series certainly doesn't.

    If I'm not mistaken, this would be a massively annoying flaw for gaming if you have any key combos in the same column (the keys that can't be depressed at the same time are all in the same circuit, which is arranged by column - the old C series keyboard were prone to failure in the same pattern). It shouldn't be common since key layouts are based on home row hand placement, but I have known people who used ****eyed layouts, or use a single finger to hit q&a or e&d in a wasd configuration.

    edit: ok, that's a downright silly profanity filter action :)
     
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    how sad. i really was thinking about buying this laptop. but with all the errors i think i'd rather not.
     
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    This happens in my Asus as well...so I think its much more widespread than you think it is. Also, when are you ever going to press more than 3 or 4 buttons at a time anyway?
     
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    It's not about pressing 3 or 4 keys. The problem appears with some combinations of 2 keys already, even cursor-up and cursor-left, which screws up every racing game unless you find some "safe" keys replacing the cursor buttons in a customized layout. As there hasn't been any complaint about WASD (yet), something like IJKL might be fine for the right-handed among us.
     
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    Every computer has issues. Some are genuine bugs, which should get fixed. Others are features which users have to get used to, and when you do, they are no longer problems.

    My burner now reads the disc which it wouldn't read a month ago, and maybe the latest BIOS update has fixed the audio problems. The quality difference between the two sources of WXGA+ displays continues to be an issue.

    John
     
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