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    SXPS 16- Video, Trackpad and Audio Issues (Win7)

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Marcham93, Dec 25, 2009.

  1. Marcham93

    Marcham93 Notebook Evangelist

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    I have been experiencing two issues and wanted to see if anyone has experienced this issues also and have a solution for them.

    Audio- The audio will stop working. Causes Flash to crash. Rebooting computer fixes the issue temporary . Seems to happen sometimes after resuming from standby or/and hibernation. My temporary fix is just to use the windows audio drivers versus the IDT drivers.

    Trackpad- After sometimes resuming from standby or/and hibernation the trackpad will cease to work. If I put the laptop back into standby or/and hibernation then take it out again it will usually work again. Although sometimes I have to do it a few times.

    Video- DirectX seems to stop working mysteriously. My screen saver won't even play! Usually fiddling with the video drivers or restarting a few times fixes it temporary.

    Anyone else experiencing these issues? Any solutions/ideas? I have reinstalled the drivers many times and even the entire Operating System. I don't recall these errors in Vista. :confused:
     
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    ikjadoon Notebook Deity

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    They all sound very driver-related. Are all of your drivers Win7-certified?

    ~Ibrahim~
     
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  3. Marcham93

    Marcham93 Notebook Evangelist

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    They are all the latest windows 7 x64 drivers from Dell's website.
     
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    Huh...funky. Did you do a clean install or an upgrade?

    Try using Driver Sweeper and reinstall the ATI drivers with it.

    Maybe try Synaptic's driver instead of Dell's for the trackpad.

    Not sure about the audio...what are you doing when it stops?

    ~Ibrahim~
     
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    It was a clean install.

    I will test out Synaptic drivers again.

    Audio stops when resuming from standby or hibernation, but as I said before
    using the windows driver seems to work so far and its okay not a big deal.

    but the touch pad and video problems are the most annoying.
     
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    Cool beans, good luck.

    Could you elaborate a bit more on the video issue? DirectX stops working = ? I've never heard of that before.

    ~Ibrahim~
     
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    The computer reacts as if DirectX has never been installed. Really odd.
     
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    ikjadoon, Dec 26, 2009
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