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    Bad keystroke registration with external monitor

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by geofrank, Feb 22, 2010.

  1. geofrank

    geofrank Newbie

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    So I have a bit of a fun problem. Please read the whole thing before you go giving standard answers.

    So i dropped my m15x this morning and cracked the screen (I know nice job). I can see 1/2 the screen fine. However for many things this much isn't good enough, so I hooked up my computer to an external 32" Philips LCD TV. I ran some benchmarks and have found no problems with he internal computing power of the notebook. However with this new monitor, keystroke register very slowly, or not at all. Often when typing I miss characters and have to backspace frequently. It's not that display of the characters lags, it's that they don't display if typed in rapid succession.

    When I unplug the monitor and use just the 1/2 of the screen that is uncracked, the typing response is fine. It only seems to slow down on the external monitor. I have also tried hooking up a wireless keyboard instead of using the onboard one, no change. I have turned up the repeat keytime in my control panel to no avail. The CPU is not maxed out (sits at about 2% while typing in word as a test). Ram is also 75% free.

    HELP!

    m15x
    Windows 7 (originally shipped with windows vista)
    T9300 2.5 GHZ Core 2 Duo
    4 Gig RAM
    Nvidia 8800M GTX
     
    geofrank, Feb 22, 2010
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