Dell Studio 1555, *Part 2*

Ah ok, thanks, I'll leave it until I have a shim ready for the GPU. Undervolting got some good results in the meantime

 

Does the new Dell Studio still have problems with the cursor jumping all around the page while using e-mail or word processing. It was very common an quite annoying.

 

I never had that, but on my 1555 the F keys will randomly revert to being the media keys, and I have to hold down the Fn key to get the F keys back until I reboot and change it back in the BIOS. Usually only finding out when I hit F5 to compile/run and the brightness goes up instead. Whoever at Dell thought that was a good idea needs a kick.

 

^ amen. the default should be function keys first

 

Hey guys,
does anyone of you have the clock generator for overclocking the CPU?
I have no warranty left, and my temperatures are with max 61*C with prime very nice. I dont want to open my studio just to look after the clock generator.
Maybe one of you has it? (i have the T4200 dual core and HD 4570)

 

Does nobody know the Clock generator?

 

After years of faithful service with no major issues, I'm starting to have some troubles with my 1555 that mostly appear when I'm playing games. I've had the computer completely itself shut off in the middle of an FPS and when I'm playing my favorite MMO (Star Trek Online), as of last week the A and S keys start failing intermittently at the same time and the D key sometimes malfunctions as well, taking too much pressure to register a keystroke. I have blown out the fan area with a powerful electric duster and always use it with a cooling pad with fans, but when I'm running games I'll still hit temps of 214 F (102 C) in my Radeon 4570. It's possible that the "play"/flex of the keyboard combined with extended button pressing (for WASD movement in starship combat) has caused contact and heat transfer that has damaged the key sensors or maybe even melted some plastic (?). In any case, I will need new keyboard. I'm actually using the Ease of Access onscreen keyboard to make this post. I haven't taken a look at the back of the keyboard for physical damage but I'm considering opening it up just to have a look. I'm an IT guy that fixes a lot of Dell laptops so I have the tools/skills, etc. I just wanted to see if anyone has any other thoughts on why the keyboard is failing and about wrangling the heat levels. Laptop stats in my sig.

Also, I want to echo the other users frustrated by the Function/media keys being a pain.

Edit: Keyboard DPN is C569K Keyboard, 86, United States English, ILSB II (backlit). Just bought a new one and IC Diamond 7 Carat 1.5g Thermal Compound Paste Grease (ICD7)...planning on replacing the thermal compound and I'm looking into a copper shim for the GPU based on this awesome thread.

 

My 1555 is still fine. It's around four years old now. Brought it at the start of my degree, been to university every day for six semesters and my primary machine while out on a work placement for a year. Slightly scratched, but still in one piece, not cracked at all. Still get just over an hour on the battery, too. DDR2 model with a Radeon GPU. Swapped the HDD for a Crucial M4 and upped the RAM to 6GB.

102c for yours seems way too hot to me, but I'm in the UK, so chances are the ambient temperature is lower.

My keyboard is still fine, but it's not backlit.

F keys is still an annoyance. Tempted to try getting a BIOS editor and changing the default for that option.

 

I'm still using my four years old laptop but I have some problems with heat or fan. Pc shuts down due to gpu heat but I don't even hear any fan noise, it's not working at full speed. I thought to change fan but when flashing new bios, fan works like crazy so there are no problems mechanically. I think it's something with bios. What should I do for this? Or which bios uses fan most? I don't care noise

 

Any of you guys still on this machine? I have a Dell Studio 1555. I upgraded it to Windows 8 and later Windows 8.1. I updated to the latest Synaptics touchpad driver from their website. The smooth scrolling and gestures are surprisingly nice for Windows, however every few hours and sometimes every few minutes the touchpad becomes nonresponsive, sometimes it comes back on its own, sometimes I have to kill the process with the keyboard or reset it to make it come back.


Anyone have this issue? Any fixes?

Other than that this machine held up nicely for the past four+ years of my life
Dells warranty was also one of the few to fix cosmetic issues, Apple would not even do that for our macbook still in warranty.

 

Woah, I joined this forum when I got this machine, april 2009. It's now been exactly 5 years of using this, and it still works fine, battery even holds 85% of its original capacity. Pretty great for a laptop, I've seen much more costly machines last under 3 years.

 

Welp, the last post here was me saying it works, now it doesn't

I was just hoping to repost this in here to get a few more users in my thread if possible, as a standalone thread may not attract any attention.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...creen-won-t-turn-please-help.html#post9776838