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As I understand it, the bundle of nerves routes through the tunnel at the wrist where irritation and inflammation can occur. The user should avoid positions that bend/tighten the nerve bundle going through the tunnel. For example, bend your hand up and back at the wrist... feel the tension in your wrist... not good. Now let your hand fall limp forward, bending a bit down at the wrist... the bundle is relaxed in the tunnel.

When typing, the bundle is tense. You need to adopt an ergonomic positon that allows the bundle to be as relaxed/loose as possible. Typically this is forearms and wrists supported higher than the keys so that the hands/fingers can relax downward at the wrists to reach the keys. Then the bundle is as loose as possible while still be tensed during use. Angling the forearms in or out is simply to allow the bundle to route as cleanly through the tunnel as is possible to minimize irritation. For some people, the bio-geometry is not good... tight bundle, small tunnel openning. Surgery can be used to enlarge the tunnel.

If you have pain, you must change how you work so that the nerve bundle is as relaxed as you can make it. Do whatever it takes to alleviate the irritation immediately and directly; it will not go away on its own. Change your ergonomics, take breaks to rest/relax, and take an OTC anti-inflammatory to aid recovery.

I would not blame one laptop more than another.

GK

 

Wow, that's good advice. I understand this can snowball into bigger problems in the near future if not corrected now.

Thank you everyone. I'll take this a bit more seriously.

 

New problem has emerged - help?

If I'm on the battery and I leave it closed for extended periods of time, it goes from Sleep to I'm guessing Hibernate? It says "Resuming Windows", and completes the little window animation, then goes blank, but the processor still appears to be running.

I had to shut it down manually. Any help here? Considering uninstalling DellControlPoint because I have a suspicion it's contributing.

BIOS I'm pretty sure is up to date, just updated graphics drivers too.

 

After a while in sleep, Windows 7 takes you to hibernation. You can change that in the power options. The idea is that you don't forget your computer to sleep while it's on battery, and then your laptop is out of battery. While such laptop with such high level of battery life is rarely an issue, it is for most laptop you find in store shelves.

The problem you face is that your GPU is not coming out of your sleep when it hibernates. I suggest to uninstall your graphic card drivers, and get Nvidia's latest graphic card at Nvidia.com own website. In the setup be sure to check the box to perform a clean install (I think it's under Custom setup).

On your way, make sure that you have the latest Intel motherboard drivers.

You can also diagnose your sleep problem.
- Start > type: cmd > right-click on the first result and select "Run as Administrator".
- A DOS-like panel will open. From there type: cd C:\ and hit the ENTER key.
- Finally, type: powercfg -energy and hit the ENTER key.

Once the process is done, go to C:\ to find a file called energy-report.html, and just double click on it to open it.

Just note to add: I had this problem on the E6400, and the drivers uninstall, and get the latest one possible for everything (well I know it was the GPU drivers, but might as well on my way update everything), solved the problem for me.

 

Here are some suggestions. Googling for "Windows 7 blank screen resume" will find a few more. I think I may have seen this problem if I put a flash drive in a USB port before I resume.

It is also worthwhile looking in Event Viewer's System Log to see what is happening when you resume from hibernation.

John

 

I'm a bit of an idiot as to this - two things.

A. Analysis Results
Errors
USB Suspend:USB Device not Entering Suspend
The USB device did not enter the Suspend state. Processor power management may be prevented if a USB device does not enter the Suspend state when not in use.
Device Name USB Composite Device
Host Controller ID PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B34
Host Controller Location PCI bus 0, device 29, function 0
Device ID USB\VID_0A5C&PID_5801
Port Path 1,8
USB Suspend:USB Device not Entering Suspend
The USB device did not enter the Suspend state. Processor power management may be prevented if a USB device does not enter the Suspend state when not in use.
Device Name USB Root Hub
Host Controller ID PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B34
Host Controller Location PCI bus 0, device 29, function 0
Device ID USB\VID_8086&PID_3B34
Port Path
USB Suspend:USB Device not Entering Suspend
The USB device did not enter the Suspend state. Processor power management may be prevented if a USB device does not enter the Suspend state when not in use.
Device Name Generic USB Hub
Host Controller ID PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B34
Host Controller Location PCI bus 0, device 29, function 0
Device ID USB\VID_8087&PID_0020
Port Path 1
Platform Power Management CapabilitiesCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) Disabled
PCI Express Active-State Power Management (ASPM) has been disabled due to a known incompatibility with the hardware in this computer.

B. If I uninstall the GPU drivers won't I be left without a display? Do I download, save to a folder on desktop, then uninstall then install the downloaded files or what?

 

A.
Your report looks good... ok I know what you are thinking but don't worry about them. I believe one of them is your laptop mic, one can be for the ambient light sensor and one for the webcam, which is all managed by something else and not Windows, so that is why you have this. I am not certain on this, but I have the same thing on my side, and I have 0 problem, or any battery consumption problems. So this is my guess.


B.
No you won't. That is why standards where invented. Basically without your drivers, you'll be stuck with a low resolution screen image, unable to use any 3D or 2D rendering, and limited with color support. This is how you have an image when you turn on your computer. Windows is not loaded, you have 0 drivers, but you have an image. And this also explains why Windows 7 boot animation and in your case Dell Boot logo, is in such low resolution on your screen, and in the case of the Windows logo, stretch as the the resolution of the screen is only 800x600 (a non-wide screen resolution), so the image is stretch to fit your wide screen screen.

So basically, the standard specifies the minimum way a computer graphic card should work without the need of drivers, this way when you install/re-install an an Operating System such as Windows or Linux, you have a bare bone image on your screen so that you can at least get the drivers.

Every device on your computer has a standard system to work in basic mode when you don't have drivers except dedicated sound cards. Onboard sound card is fine.
In some cases, the standard set represent the full function on the device and hence requires 0 drivers to function properly. An example is your keyboard and mouse. Same for your optical drive (CD/DVD/Bluray-ROM and burner version), hard drives, solid state drives, and more.

Then you have Operating System native support, so you have in the case of Vista/Win7 SATA support, or since XP: USB 2.0 support, or possibly with Windows 7 SP1 USB 3.0 support, just to name a few things.
Where the drivers for these device, as they are not different form 1 computer to another, requires no drivers to install in your part. Hence why your USB keyboard works in your system BIOS.


So, to continue on topic, you have nothing to worry about.
Here is what I suggest:
- Download the latest version of the drivers (just in case the the website server goes down just because you have bad luck). But DON'T install yet.

- Uninstall the old drivers completely (Control Panel > Programs & Features > and remove anything that has Nvidia on the list).

- Restart your computer.

- Install the previously downloaded drivers, and check the box for it to perform a clean install.

The idea of not installing the drivers OVER the old one, is to ensure that there is no conflict, and that the previous settings are not carried to the new drivers, which can still cause the same problem that you are facing now.

 

Ok, thanks. I did all of that last night; it appears to have worked.

When the machine first arrived, it had a visual display of the volume every time I adjusted it; just a bar really.

Now that I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers that little bar is gone - it's unnecessary but I kind of liked it. Any idea how to get it back?

edit: the 'brightness' control bar appears to have departed as well. That was a legitimately useful little function.

 

Strange I never had this problem.
Uninstall Dell Control Point and install it back (well make sure you have the latest version).

 

That did it.

Man you're good.

Thank you very much.