IDK if this is the right board to post to or if you friends are OK with this kind of threads. I've looked for general threads that could suit my issue but couldn't find any. If there was one then sorry for being an incompetent fag. Here goes nothing..
I've had my Dell inspiron for about 3 years now. Upgraded it to WIN 10 as soon as it came out (yeah linux rocks but that's not what my college thinks, using strictly Windows programs) and had to endure the bugs of the early versions of the OS.. But over time, some distinct issues were never solved - which made me further consider those issues to have emerged from the Dell side itself.
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Problems go as follows:
(1) Touchpad becomes unbearably unresponsive or stuck on a combination of left and right click after I close and reopen the led or bend the laptop screen backwards to tablet/tent mode.
My guess here is that this is a software issue, because as soon as I turn off the touchpad then on again by any means (closing and opening the lid, hibernating and booting, rebooting, or manually restarting the driver), the touchpad functions just as expected
This issue has varied in frequency and persistence with each update. But even with the latest drivers it still exists.
(2) Right after upgrading my BIOS to A10, the laptop never wakes from sleep and has to be hard rebooted. I am almost certain this is a BIOS thing and was just wondering if A11 fixes that.
(3) Occasionally, I hear a noise that's somewhere between a click and emptying a static charge. Ususally this noise has no apparent cause, but I managed to reproduce it on two exact instances, when the laptop completely loses power after a shutdown (or hard power off, 15 secs hold on the power button), and the second instance is when I accelerate the laptop upwards or downwards from a level state (as if dropping it or lifting it quickly) while it's running.
I'm not sure if this is a fan noise or (hopefully not) HDD noise..
But I've checked my HDD using both Windows Event Viewer and CMD and it showed no errors/warnings.
(4) My laptop usually keeps giving me this error message: "The AC power adapter type cannot be determined. Your system will operate slower and the battery will not charge." whenever I plug it in. I am sure my power unit is out-of-the-box authentic.
But I did move from a country that standards 240V 3-pin plugs to a country that standards 220V 2-pin plugs. I just want confirmation whether this truly is the cause or not.
Note that this message doesn't appear every single time I plug my laptop, and that it nearly always appears when I half-plug the power pin into my laptop.
(5) This is probably the least laptop health-affecting problem and can be solved easily with headphones, but it's worth mentioning I believe. My speakers seem to have constant crackling noise and distortion, this, however, has decreased to become very occasional, almost rare now. So I believe it was a driver issue that got patched out..
But any experienced input will be appreciated.
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That's about it! I just thought of sharing my problems for reference. I am not sure if I'll find solutions but I really hope I do. Would greatly appreciate your input and feedback. Please let me know if you do relate to any of those problems while using that laptop model and if you did solve them, how did you do it..
Thank you in advance, /g/entos.