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[SemiconEng]

Nothing, necessarily, but the symptoms of the problems point to keyboard firmware and apparent bugs inn the touchpad
I could be wrong, but that sounds like chipset, MOBO, or driver design. Chipset is Intel 855PM. Going to be interesting to see how this turns out.
INTC's had some chipset problems in the last year or so IIRC.
When I look at the specs of some other Centreno notebooks it looks like they mostly have the 855PM chipset. Are other chipsets available for the Centrino or is it a package? Who would have designed the drivers?
8-/


Not according to this link. Keyboard firmware is not controlled by the MOBO chipset, but by a keyboard controller chip, internal to the keyboard itself.

http://www.pctechguide.com/14input.htm
The keys are connected up as a matrix, and their row and column signals feed into the keyboard's own microcontroller chip. This is mounted on a circuit board inside the keyboard, and interprets the signals with its built-in firmware program

Semi

[j3pflynn]

8-/ , c'mon, now - mobo and drivers for keyboard/touchpad have nothing to do with Centrino! The chipset is highly unlikely to be the culprit, more likely the BIOS. I doubt the mobo is made by Intel - or HP for that matter - it's probably farmed out to Taiwan.
Now I'm certainly one to hold Intel's feet(as well as their supporters' :p ) to the fire when they screw up, but this is bogus. How about we save our excoriations for the real thing?!
Paul