Dell Touch Buttons Not Working Fix

Dell Touch buttons is a great way to gain faster access to many Dell’s feature on your laptop. When the touch buttons not working, it gets annoying because it may affect your working habits, especially when you accesses MediaDirect, Media Controls, or volume and eject buttons a lot. Some people reported this problem happens on Studio 15x and 17x. You might want to read below fix to get it working again.

Dell Touch Buttons Not Working Fix


Panel Touch Button Problem Fix

Follow these steps to get your touch buttons on the laptop working again:

  1. Download ISO here (credit for krypebud from Dell Community).
  2. Run CD Imaging software to create a bootable disc using the FW7_X0D.ISO you have downloaded.
  3. Insert a blank rewriteable disc or CD-R disc (CD-RW disc is preferrable since you only need this disc only once).
  4. Burn the image to the disc.
  5. Restart your Dell Studio laptop with the CD inside (make sure that you have set the CD drive to be the first bootable drive to load on BIOS).
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions, the CD will perform firmware update to your laptop system (don’t turn of the laptop during this step, make sure you have much battery life or plug your AC power cable into the laptop).
  7. Once completed, screen will show pass and Flash Successful.
  8. Shutdown your laptop.
  9. Remove AC power cable and battery from the notebook for a while and replug it again.
  10. Start your laptop again.

Hopefully the media panel and other problems will be gone for good.

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