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    M1530 sreen & battery problems

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by theolol, Jun 18, 2008.

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    Something like one week ago I found 2 month old M1530 laptop on ebay. Before I bought I arranged a metting with seller. I was checking laptop for something like 1 hour - everythink seems to be all right.
    But, now I found 2 things that are incorrect:

    1. When I close my laptop it don't react (It even doesn't turn of sreen!). I've check settings in controll panel - laptop should hibernate... Maybe it is because Win XP installed and maybe some drivers are missing?? Or maybe something is broken?? Any advice??

    2. When I received laptop battery was fully charged (4,5 h left on minimum brightnes and turned off WiFi). But when battery level reached ~60% computer turned off. It looked like someone take the battery out, so I,ve checked baterry level on baterry it - it shshowed that battery is completetly dischared. So I've pluged power cord and chared bateryy to 100% and tried again. This time it happend on ~55% - exactly the same effect. I repeated it several times and and each time it happednd ~5% leter then then before. Now my battery seems to work fine but when it is fully chared windows show 1,5 hour left on minimum brightnes... Does any one had symilar problems? How do you thing what should I do (laptop still has almost 1 year warranty).

    Thanks for any advice.
    TheOlol

    PS. Sorry for all mistakes english is not my mother language.
     
    theolol, Jun 18, 2008
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