thanks for the quick reply. i was wondering if the Dell Service Center would do that for me. my dell premium warranty is still active.

They would replace it if thats the faulty parts..
and you just need to cal them, they will come to your place to fix it, no need to go their service center..

Can you install HDTune and do error scan ?

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Jul 30 2011, 10:21 PM

i guess i will do that now.

What cooling pad u guys use for xps 15??Currently i'm finding one that could cool my laptop plus have cushion to separate the heat from my lap

i ran a Error Scan but no damaged blocks were found. but when i checked the HEALTH, the status was "Warning".
For,
(05) Reallocated Sector Count
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count (it says it has communication errors, which can be caused by a damaged cable)

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Added on July 31, 2011, 1:20 ami ran a Error Scan but no damaged blocks were found. but when i checked the HEALTH, the status was "Warning".
For,
(05) Reallocated Sector Count
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count (it says it has communication errors, which can be caused by a damaged cable)

plus the Hard Disk temp went up to 57 C. Is that too high because HDTune said it was at Critical Temp.

This post has been edited by nos4a2: Jul 31 2011, 01:23 AM

I tell you what you should RMA your laptop , call them and tell them all the steps you've taken so that they won't call you to follow stupid steps to check the laptop again , and call them to send technician to your house , don't worry xps laptop technician is well train for fixing the laptop because xps is premium laptop , just tell them you check and suspect HDD so that they could bring a new one to your house and check whether is it the HDD problem and change it

thanks a bunch, dude.

I guess then the HDD might be the cause..
The temp is too high..
I would expect 30-4xC for HDD..

Alright today i tinker with my laptop and find out there's few problem with it that need TS help.

1.)There are 3 touch sensitive buttons on top left of the keyboard.First one from left is gear button which to open Windows Mobility Center , the second one is user configurable whereas third one is to open realtek control manager.

2.)The thing is when i try to push the third button , the light of the button will just become bright and after that the realtek control manager won't come out , but the first gear button is working by opening mobility center when i click it.

3.)Third question is how to configure second button?

4.)The touchpad , even when i disable it by pressing fn + F3 , which mean the light above the touchpad is off , but still the touchpad still can be use and move , what happen to it ??


Hope to get help

2) Reinstall realtek ? Got disable realtek from startup ?
3) Open Windows Mobility Center, find Instant Launch Manager
3) Reinstall touchpad ?

Will try it tomorrow , i still struggle to get linux to work in this rig

u need to intall the touchpad driver, so can use other function like 2 finger to scroll, enlarge or others.
pls go xps website make sure u installed all drivers.

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Added on July 31, 2011, 4:26 amI trying to make mac os X lion work with vmware~hehe

This post has been edited by 工藤新一: Jul 31 2011, 04:26 AM

Well there's lots of tutorial out there on how to use mac on vmware , since dell xps 15 rig support hardware virtualization , it can be done , my old rig can't do that , so last time when i try to install it failed

but the gt-540m still not supported.
cant find any guide to successfully install~

When you press the enable blacklit keyboard button and also screen brightness button , is there any indicator come out like when we're disabling or enabling wifi and enabling or disabling the laptop sound??I wanted to know whether i've installed all the relevant driver or not ,

nope. no sound.

Hey before i reinstall my windows , whenever i close my laptop's lid , it will like sleep or something and will auto turn on and shows me logon screen when i open the lid , but after reinstalling windows , when i close the lid and open it back , i need to manually turn it on by using the power button , and when it turns on it shown me boot screen then only to the logon screen.how am i going to make it back into like before i reinstall my windows??oh ya there's one thing before i reinstall windows when i close the lid , the XPS logo behind bottom of screen still bright , but after reinstall windows i close the lid the logo light will went off

i think the configuration is right click your btm right corner the battery icon.
then look for what to do when lid close.
sorry, on desktop now, cant check for u

Yeah i change to hibernate , then i try to close the lid but still it does not work as before i reinstall windows .


P/S , still struggle to let linux run on optimus enable laptop , wonder if the circuit design of this dell rig could let us disable optimus in bios with a bios update that added this function

I thought bumblebee allow you to completely shutdown your nvidia card to save power consumption.