Dell Studio 1557

[racec]

hmm. Im using the 9.11 driver (modded) and score 4296

http://service.futuremark.com/home.a...3ECBF1475DAD92

that shoul'd be the score according to this page http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI...0.13885.0.html

[JayAce81ju27781]

Hello All

Wonder if anyone can help.

If I tilt my Dell to the right e.g. lying on floor, in bed any open window/menu begins to automatically 'self-scroll' downwards. If I level the Dell i.e. completely flat the self scrolling stops immediatley! Weird!

Any suggestions greatfully received!

Thanks

Tim

New Dell Studio 1557, Windows 7 Pro.

Windows update has "updated" your STM Motion Sensor driver to a version which is incompatible with the hardware in the 1557.

Go to the dell site, select support and go to drivers home. Input your service tag and then select your OS for the correct drivers to be displayed.

Under system utilities you will find adriver for the DE351DL motion sensor, download it.

Under your device manager find the STM Motion sensor and uninstall the device to remove the driver that windows update installed, now find the downloaded package and just run it

[JayAce81ju27781]

Hey Spetzje.

Did you manage to clear up this issue after the new drivers/A03 update?

I was having the exact same problem with the slowdown/crashing while watching streaming video.

Also, I have an issue where sometimes while watching streaming video, all of a sudden, my pointer will triple in size, and I can't get it back to the normal size without restarting.

Thanks,

Dave

I've had the giant pointer issue a couple times on mine!! I traced it back to Flash player being the issue, it was causing an instability through the graphics driver. With the official Dell driver and latest version of Flash installed the problem was resolved :-)

[timbirkin]

Windows update has "updated" your STM Motion Sensor driver to a version which is incompatible with the hardware in the 1557.

Go to the dell site, select support and go to drivers home. Input your service tag and then select your OS for the correct drivers to be displayed.

Under system utilities you will find adriver for the DE351DL motion sensor, download it.

Under your device manager find the STM Motion sensor and uninstall the device to remove the driver that windows update installed, now find the downloaded package and just run it

Tried this AND IT WORKS!!!!

According to my device manager the "updated" STM Motion Sensor driver wasn't anywhere to be seen so I downloaded and installed the driver you pointed me to on the Dell website.

It's now visible in my device manager and is called ST Micro Accelerometer. Think the original driver was called something like "ST ScreenDetector"

Spent over an hour on the 'phone to Dell yesterday about this with no luck.

Thans very, very much J. as this was driving me mad

Tim

[noblegas]

anyone else found their 1557 freezes up hard sometimes after about an hour of heavy usage? am afraid it could be due to overheating but i would like to think it would throttle things rather than crash them...

[JayAce81ju27781]

I've experienced some serious lock ups after resuming from standby/sleep but that's it.... Temperatures have never been anywhere near high enough to cause this, I think it's a problem with the W7 installation itself!! I've had loads of experimental software on mine though so it wouldn't surprise me if that was the cause.... I'm going to do a fresh install over xmas :-)

[rizzobox]

Just tested the battery, got about 2h45min playing poker for 2h surfing for 30min, ideling 15. Powersetttings was set to "Dell" and brightness 0.

Is there any way to make it last even longer?

Had it in my lap and must say im really happy about the heat, didn't get warm at all.

[dantium]

anyone else found their 1557 freezes up hard sometimes after about an hour of heavy usage? am afraid it could be due to overheating but i would like to think it would throttle things rather than crash them...

I've had mine lock up a few times over the last few weeks, wasn't running so hot, I have no idea what's causing it.

On another forum it's suggested it maybe associated with having an external device connected via USB: http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19303691.aspx

I must say that I have only had it freeze while a USB device has been connected...

[rizzobox]

anyone else found their 1557 freezes up hard sometimes after about an hour of heavy usage? am afraid it could be due to overheating but i would like to think it would throttle things rather than crash them...

Only time it freezed for me was while playing a youtube video while on battery, found some post further back how to fix this, haven't tested it yet though. I haven't used any application or played any games that utilizes 3D so maybe I'll see problems further on.

[Fragilexx]

Just tested the battery, got about 2h45min playing poker for 2h surfing for 30min, ideling 15. Powersetttings was set to "Dell" and brightness 0.

Is there any way to make it last even longer?

Had it in my lap and must say im really happy about the heat, didn't get warm at all.

Turn off bluetooth and wireless if you are not using; set the power setting to power saver rather than Dell recommended, and ensure this also switches GPU to power saver.

Set your HDD to go to sleep quite quickly, say 10 minutes.

I'm sure there are other ways, but in reality this notebook is not about long battery life.