Why don't laptops have reset buttons???

[MWink]

I'm really mad right now. I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 8200 and I've been having problems with the modem. It causes the system to hard lock sometimes when disconnecting. When it does that I'm forced to hold the power button for 5 seconds to turn the system off.

Well one time when I turned it off I heard this really bad sounding noise. It couldn't have been the speakers as they were off. I realized it must be the HD. I just ran chkdsk and I have 14 bad sectors. This is a 3 week old IBM TravelStar 40GB. I can't believe it... 3 weeks old and I already have to RMA it. Anyone know if Newegg will let me RMA a HD just because it has bad sectors?

If laptop makers would just add a reset button this problem could have been avoided. After all they do add all those buttons we never use.

 

[Thor86]

I think the main reason why most lappys don't have reset buttons, or at least some have a pin-pusher reset, is because you don't want to accidently press it while you are working on it, and maybe perhaps carrying it around, or jolting it.

 

[RalfHutter]

Every laptop I've owned or worked on has a reset button/pinhole. Look on the sides of your Dell for a small hole, like the manual eject holes on the fronts of CDrom drives. This is your reset button.

 

[MWink]

I don't see any except the one on the CD-ROM.

 

[MasterHoss]

For the same reason that most Dell, HP/Compaq, etc. computers lack what I like to call the "Windows auto-refresh button." I'm sure it has something to do with Windows having the "restart" option... of course that does nothing when your computer locks-up.

 

[neuralfx]

a reset button wouldn't have helped that problem though .. all it does is cycle power .. its just quicker than holding power for 5secs and then pushing it again ..
-neural

 

[DaveSimmons]

My IBM and a bunch of Toshibas I've worked with all have a reset button, usually pinhole. It can be hard to find, I had to Read The Friendly Manual to find mine last time I needed it, perhaps you need to RTFM too?