Why don't my key presses respond right away?

Why don't my key presses respond right away?

I've had my laptop for over a year, and it developed this problem recently. About once a minute a key press (or lifting a key up) won't respond until a couple milliseconds after I hit the key (and in the lifting case the key will count as being pressed a couple milliseconds longer than I'm really pressing it). This causes me to die a lot in games that need precise timing!

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"Hi Ben,

I'm not sure it's related but there's a very well known problem about the Dell XPS M1530, it's the heating issue.

The Graphic Card is too powerful for the fan system (Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT or 8400M GS).

I have two XPS M1530 (with the 2 different cards) that reached temperatures over 80°C (Graphic Card), and over 60°C (HDD and Motherboard).

I have also experienced key repeating problems before Motherboard + Graphic Card Replacement.

Here is a link to the Dell Community about the heat issue

http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club...

ps:

Great Answer Erik. Very Detailed and Precise.

ps2:

To monitor the temperature, you can use a freeware like Speccy"