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    M18XR2, Windows 10, and keyboard stops working....

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Phil Boyd, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. Phil Boyd

    Phil Boyd Newbie

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    I went looking thru the Windows 10 thread, but all the discussion seemed to be related to display issues. My issue is the keyboard stops working. Is anyone else running into this issue?
     
  2. Scanner

    Scanner Notebook Deity

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    Consider yourself lucky, and downgrade back to win8 or win7. If you read through the
    Win10 is killing PC LCDs thread, you would have noticed some of the unfortunate victims had no problems and then BOOOM :(, their LCD DIED.
     
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  3. Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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    What @Scanner said is really good advice, especially if you have NVIDIA GPUs. No reports of LCD failures with AMD so far, but considering market share for AMD is extremely low in comparison and not all systems have turned up with bricked LCD panels, we don't know the extent to which it is exclusive to NVIDIA. Windows 10 is definitely the lowest common denominator.

    I had a serious lag and no-response issue with my keyboards and mice under Windows 10 that seemed to mostly surface after a logoff/logon or rebooting. It was almost like background processes where hogging too many resources and the system had to "catch up" then the keyboard and mouse would work correctly. Sometimes it took several minutes. It also happened a few times while running very demanding processes, with a severe CPU benchmark like wPrime, Cinebench or a 3DMark 11 Physics test. Not sure if that is the same issue you're having or not, but it has some similarities. I had this issue with Windows 10 on two Alienwares and one Clevo notebook.
     
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    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    Upgrade your machine to windows 7 and never downgrade to 10 again. As mentioned by others you give up like 4 or your constitutional rights to even use windows 10.
     
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