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    XPS M1330 Problems - Unstable booting, keyboard malfunction

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by weeeee, Jul 16, 2008.

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    weeeee Notebook Consultant

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    Recently the first problem occurred when my computer would spontaneously ghost a simulation of the left key pressed down. This would make it impossible for me to type things out or select folders, files, etc. It would go away if I rebooted.
    The second problem happens all the time. When I start my computer it would go through the Dell loading screen, fill up the white bar then move onto the next screen where it would permanently pause with a blinking underscore at the top left of the screen. I could remedy this situation by doing a hard reboot but during the hard reboot, the white bar on the Dell loading screen would move very slowly, almost 30 seconds to fill the white bar.
    I'm wondering if a clean reformat would fix these problems or if I should contact Dell for some kind of replacement or somewhat. Maybe one of you guys have a similar problem and can help me out. Thanks.
     
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    ZeusII Notebook Enthusiast

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    maybe a driver problem, but looks like a defective touchpad (button ;))

    the bar takes a long time to fill when you do hard reboot or a bios update.

    it seems your harddisk has some problems starting up (hence the blinking cursor). run the dell diagnostics on it to see if theres some bad sector or anything. also, try a reinstallation + latest drivers to see if (the touchpad problem) dissapears.
     
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