Studio 15: Fn + F3 and F1 keys not doing what they should?

Hey dudes

i've had my beautiful studio 15 for about 2 weeks now.

It runs awesome except the fan runs a lot sometimes.

AND

For some reason, the hotkeys: Fn+F3 (for battery) and Fn+F1 (for sleep mode) don't do anything at all.........the Fn+F10 for the eject disc seems to work fine....so i'm wondering what is wrong???

also....I am wondering, what is the latest bios update for my system?

thanks in advance

 

You mean hibernate? Is it disabled?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929658

 

My Fn+F10 key works, the other two do not. Not sure what the battery button is supposed to do, but it would be nice to have the hibernate key working. Maybe I can remap it to turn off the screen?

 

The battery button should just open the thing that tells you how much battery is left. The sleep button might require a bit of configuration. Have you reformatted it since you got it?

 

I use Server 2008 now but it didn't work with Vista when I got it.

 

no i have not formatted

what is up

 

Same, wondering what the problem is...

 

If Fn + F10 works and the function keys work by themselves, then it's a configuration issue. The battery display only works if configured to do so as does hibernation mode. If you set the laptop to never hibernate, then hibernation mode is disabled. No amount of key pressing is going to put it into hibernation after that.

 

I have hibernation enabled, it still doesn't work.

 

in that case, how do I configure the battery thing to come up???


and as the person above, my hibernation is enabled yet it doesn't work from the key settings

any suggestions??

 

I just bought a Dell Studio 15 last week, and was having the same problems. What you apparently need to do is start up the Dell QuickSet program from the Start Menu. In that program, under the display and device tab, there is an option for hotkeys but I don't think you can change their functions. The program will show a QS icon in the system tray. While it is running, the F1 sleep key, and the F3 Battery Meter, and the F8 Displays key will now function as they are supposed to. In addition, if you click on the QS icon in the tray, an option pops up for Hotkeys. Here you are able to disable or enable an onscreen display of Volume level, and screen brightness level that change when you press the function up/function down arrow keys, or the volume touchbuttons above the keyboard, also there is a control there for a wireless activity light.


probably want to add quickset to the startup programs so it works everytime you start your machine.

hope this helps. i don't know why Dell didn't explain this better

take care
Brent

 

^^^^that did the trick....although i wish it would just pop up an animation for the amount of battery left instead of that configuration window

 

yup that seems to do the trick

thanks!

have some rep on me

 

I will try this later. I am not sure if QuickSet is available for 64 bit.