Recent content by Troika

Perhaps. Whatever the issue, I've already retired the M6800. Even though the GTX 970M 6GB isn't as powerful as the Radeon Pro WX7100 Mobile 8GB, its good enough for some light gaming and other content consumption during lunch breaks. Plus, I can just use Parsec so I can use my main desktop over...

Unless it happens to be written in assembly, I don't see any way a rootkit can survive having the drive formatted and windows reinstalled or booting from an external device or in bios. That and external keyboards all work perfectly fine. One would assume that if the onboard keyboard is...

The motherboard came from ebay, presumably harvested from another Precision M6800 with chassis issues/display issues or some other problem. They keyboard came from aliexpress, also probably harvested from a donor laptop given that it was listed as "refurbished". The original keyboard I got for...

Yes, I even replaced the cable with a new one incase there was an internal break that wasn't obviously visible. I took everything out of the laptop other than a single stick of ram and removing the gpu and all other expansion cards. The same issue still persists. I genuinely have no clue what...

No, when using an external keyboard (usb or bluetooth) it functions normally. And yes, the behavior is present when using a portable OS. I have a Windows live image as well as a Ubuntu one, both have the same issue when using the laptop's keyboard. As I stated, the behavior is also present when...

I have a Dell Precision M6800 that I've had for several years now and its given me very few issues to complain about. This one is by far the most annoying and I can't figure out what's causing it. Any time you press a key, its very slow to respond and typing at a regular pace doesn't yield...