Studio laptops are powerful, designed well but faced touch sensitive button issue for well over two years now. There were annoying little problems from touch sensitive buttons automatically ejecting CD/DVD, unable to boot with hard drive, pressing eject button freezes laptop completely and the list goes on.

Following these steps will make your Dell Studio laptop's (1535 - 1537) touch sensitive buttons woes go away forever. Jump to step 4 if you are only interested in Touch sensitive buttons issue, but for a complete tidy Studio 15 laptop system, i  would recommend you to follow each step.

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1. Update your current firmware for your laptop model (support.dell.com, use your service tag).

2. Update any optical drive firmware updates for your laptop (use your service tag).

4. Download Touch sensitive pad's firmware update from following link(s):

Link 1: http://csmicfool.com/files/FW7_X0D.ISO
Link 2: http://www.pakistanblues.com/random/FW7_X0D.ISO

5. Burn this ISO image file on CD/DVD using Power ISO or whatever ISO burning tool you got.

6. Boot your Laptop with CD/DVD burnt with FW7_X0D.ISO (by pressing F12 at boot screen, select CD/DVD ROM).

7. Firmware update will automatically start and will exit at A:>_

8. When done, turn off your Laptop, unplug battery and AC Power adapter (For discharging laptop internal circuitry).

9. Plug battery, AC power back in and turn on your laptop with Touch sensitive buttons working, you will now notice that they don't light up from left to right as they normally did with previous firmware.

Note: These ISO files are not available on dell support site. This is TOUCH SENSITIVE BUTTONS CONTROLLER firmware update, not overall laptops firmware (BIOS and/or your current laptop firmware is left intact).

Fix Poster Username: KRYPEBUD

Original Fix Link: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19125998.aspx?PageIndex=3

If it works for you or if you have any problems/questions just put a comment.