[LBo] lap top issues

[Robin B]

U can try this site for your drivers and see if it will help
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=214342&lang=en






On 8/9/07, Andrew Henry <adhenry at bredband.net> wrote:
>
> Troy wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm having some troubles with my HP Pavilion Ze4125 lap top.  I have the
> > system dual booting Win XP and Ubuntu Feisty.  The problem is under XP
> the
> > text I type on the keyboard does not always appear on the screen (also
> the
> > mouse movement is extremely jerky).  As an example, I might type the
> word
> > linux, and on the screen I see lnux.  Now this is where it gets
> interesting,
> > under Ubuntu I have no issues at all!  Therefore, I think I can safely
> > eliminate the keyboard as the issue, but I'm wondering if it could be a
> hard
> > drive issue, and only the partition with XP is affected?  I would run
> only
> > Ubuntu, but I have to connect to my company's server via citrix, and I
> > cannot connect to the LAN printers inside citrix - which is a necessity.
> >
> > On a side note, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to add the
> > company's LAN printers inside Ubuntu.  I clicked on "add new printer",
> the
> > available printers were detected, and I selected the printer I wanted,
> that
> > easy!
> >
> > I appreciate your help.
> >
> > Troy
> >
> Hi Troy,
>
> If the same keys that fail in XP work perfectly every time in Ubuntu
> then no, I wouldn't say it is a hardware problem.  I assume that you
> have already verified that you can press the same key several times in
> succession in both XP and Ubuntu to test if it fails consistently/works
> every time respectively, and to verify that it's not just muck under the
> keys? :)
>
> It would be unusual for a keyboard driver not to work on a laptop as
> they are preinstalled with the manufacturers drivers and slightly
> customised version of XP.  But maybe you have wiped the partition and
> have installed your own copy of Windows XP that does not have the
> manufacturers drivers?  I would recommend downloading and installing the
> drivers from HP's website for your specific model of laptop.
>
> The fact that the mouse also works inconsistently leads me to believe
> that maybe your system is under heavy load...can you open Task Manager
> and see if your CPU is at or near 100%?  Or is the hard drive
> reading/writing continuously?  In Windows system load can quite easily
> lead to a situation where input becomes unresponsive.  Look in the
> Processes tab in Task Manager to identify the process that is using the
> most system resources.
>
> --andrew
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