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    XPS 15 Mouse Touch Pad Orange LED

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by pitaya, Aug 19, 2011.

  1. pitaya

    pitaya Notebook Enthusiast

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    Today in the morning i was surfing on the web and suddenly just above..in the top center of the touch pad an orange LED appeared (OLOF =Orange Light Of DEAD?LOL)....so what does it means...cuz

    i have been using the last synaptics drivers about 2 weeks with no problems....and even with the OLOF, the touchpad worked normally

    What is that LED of Death? its a Heat'ometer?

    This Laptop its a pain in the A S S...first I had to have the FHD display, then i found the hyper active Fans of Death problem and now that light?.... W T F with dell?
     
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  2. madmattd

    madmattd Notebook Deity

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    The light is supposed to come on when you hit the FN+F-something key (2 or 3 iirc, the orange icon shows a sorta-touchpad with 2 buttons below it)) to disable the touchpad. The light is to let you know it is disabled. Odd that the touchpad was still working though. Is there a chance you hit the key combo to "disable" the touchpad?
     
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  3. pitaya

    pitaya Notebook Enthusiast

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    it was weird because i was checking something in my room like 30 seconds and then the light....but nothing was different...the touchpad was on and working normally

    ill do more tests...hopefully my machine will stop this kind of seizuring attacks by itself....thanks.
     
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    zjacobss Notebook Consultant

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    Sometimes it glitches, when the orange light is on its supposed to disable the touchpad but sometimes i see the orange light but touchpad is still active. A restart fixes this.
     
    zjacobss, Aug 19, 2011
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