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Of course I don't. I am just being as useful as you are. If you want help, then give us details.

You post was ignored the first time, reposting it, does not help your case. And I don't want you starting to repost continuously.

If you followed the Dell driver guide, then all the drivers should be installed, if not, you either missed something or something is broken on your system. But because your great lack of details, I can't help you more.

Not installing drivers, reduces performance, as Windows tried to detect the device. You can also reduce your battery life of your system as the OS can't send a the comment the device needs and support to shut it down.

Ohhh so you think you are better than everyone else, ok fine, insult all of us. And you expect any quality help?! Also, even if I gave you the solution you would not rep me up either way.

Reputation points is very B.S. because I do more then help people, I talk.. a lot, which adds life to this forum. Also, I sometimes present my opinion on things, I present all my knowledge on something that might not solve the issue,m but might help the case, or understand a problem better. If everyone was like you, then the forum will be just as interesting as an empty closet with no one inside, nor light. I don't have to prove anything, you can see this if you bother reading this thread, but no you won't, knowing you attitude and your lack of respect among others, you won't even care.

This forum has guidelines on how to make a proper post. If you were not a lazy person, then you would have presented a complete post explaining your problem in detail, your system, what you did, etc...

 

6.5% should be about a month of usage of the battery (used about every day except week-ends), based on my observation with my battery.

Now you said " I have 53946 fully charged capacity out of 57720 designed capacity." I don't really understand you on this point.
Is 53946 mWh that you have the battery fully charged capacity, or the current state. In my case, (I have the 9-cell battery), Everest tell me the following:
- Designed Capacity 86580 mWh
- Fully Charged Capacity 69098 mWh
- Current Capacity 86580 mWh.

Where, "Designed Capacity" is the max energy that the battery can hold. Then the "Current Capacity" is what the my battery is at the moment, and finally the "Fully Charged Capacity" is the point (from my observation) where the battery slows down from being recharged at normal speed. Meaning, that the battery recharge normally, but once it reached this level, then the recharger takes more time to recharge the battery. I THINK that the battery will degrade over time, and that will be the maximum level.

My wear level is 20%. My comments are based on my observations, and this is my first laptop, so I can't really say for sure anything.

 

"pci simple communications controller" driver turns out to be related to the proV functionality. AMT-HECI driver takes care of it.

The volume buttons work with just the audio driver, but there is no indicator on the screen...which is just fine with me.

 

Quick Question:

Can you lower the brightness of the Backlit keyboard? I don't need alot of brightness cause I'm a touch typist, but I need just enough to see some keys that are in odd positions compared to that of a normal keyboard. I feel that I'm wasting a load of battery life with such a bright backlight -_-.

Btw, as a new owner, I'm pretty impressed with the laptop. The battery on the 6 cell is amazing. I love the backlit keyboard. Led screen is phenominal! Only a few complaints:

-The keyboard sucks! Its too small. Is this a full sized keyboard? They should have scratched the speakers and given us more keyboard room!
-The touchpad is only bearable. God I miss synaptics. Its way better than the touchpad on my studio 15 however.
-The touchpoint sucks. I had to remove it because it interfered with typing.

Thats about it! I love this laptop. Its lightweight, sleek, and fun to play with!

 

Yes, you can!
Do Fn + F7 to open Dell Control Panel (if it does not, then it's on the start menu, you can't miss it). Go under "Display and Devices" (it might take a few second to appear). Inside that section, you will see a blue link that says "Adjust keyboard backlight settings". From there you can change the brightness with the slider bar (10 possibilities, including off). From there you can also set how much time you want the backlight to be turned on when no activity on the keyboard and other options.

This is what is considered to be a full size standard layout keyboard without a numb pad. Personally, I just compared the keyboard with my Logitech illuminated keyboard and a standard basic Microsoft keyboard and teh keys looks the same. You'll get used to the layout.

Other keyboard, are the ones where the 6 grouped keys (delete, inset, home, end, Page Up/Down) are on the right side of the keyboard with no particular order. This is the non standard full keyboard layout without a numb pad.

Then on 17-19inch laptops you have the standard layout keyboard with numb pad. If bigger laptop existed and properly designed then it would be literarly a desktop keyboard on it.

Finally, on small laptops the keys size and distance are reduced to to try and fit all the keys.

It should not bother you. You probably learned and got used to a keyboard with larger than standard keyboard key distance and/or key size, and this is why you have a hard time adjusting to a normal size keyboard. You will eventually get used to it.

Hope this helps.

 

IMO, Goodbytes here is on a roll helping out with all of your questions. There's no need to give him sass now... Here's some kudos to you.

 

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it!

 

I have just sent an email to Dell Finland regarding the overheating issue.

I asked whether they would be willing to perform a copper mod, but am expecting a big "no way Jose". However, there are two possibilities that they will probably be willing to do:

1) Replace the motherboard and apply thermal paste
2) Do not replace the motherboard and simply apply thermal paste

I am planning to buy proper quality thermal paste and ask them to use that instead of whatever they use. Should I replace the motherboard? The GPU has been overheating up to around 102º and has been used for gaming around 1-2 hours a day for four months. When gaming I experience continuous downclocking-upclocking cycles, and the video driver has crashed once due to heat. Has the GPU already been damaged, or should I just ask them to replace the thermal contact?

 

Might as well go the whole 9 yards. If they offer to replace it, I don't see why not?

 

Dell uses good thermal paste.. not the best, but good. The only thermal paste used is on the CPU. The rest are pads, The reason for this is that the distance between the heatsink and processor in question is too high. Yes the heatsink could have been better designed, but there is nothing you do can do about it.
Doing any modifications will void the warranty, even if it's for the best. The heatsink (which include the thermal paste) needs to be changed. They may also send a new motherboard, in case it's a faulty GPU (very rare, but manufacture error is possible) I would suggest to bring this up this to the tech support which might replace your hole machine or both (heatsink and motherboard).

The day the technician comes, make sure that he removes any plastic film that protect the new heatsink (if any).

I never understood why there is no laptop manufacture that does a good job at setting up the thermal paste, but my guess is to reduce the cost, as apply a thin payer and have the heatsink made in stairs like to accommodate the different height of each processor and possible configuration is expensive. My guess, is that they don't see laptop as gaming machine and that the percentage in thermal decrease is too little to justify the extra cost.