I have an Inspiron 15 7000 7567 with i7 1TB HHD+256GB SSD.
I have been having the issues many people have been having and now I can't find a solution to my newest one.
First, I had the grey lined screen appear from sleeping, which was solved with the BIOS update 1.2.0 and the new driver updates.
Since then I have had numerous other random symptoms. First, the screen flickers a couple times when turning on. Second, when unplugged everything freaks out for a second and then returns to normal. By freaks out I mean that sound distorts and video freezes. Third, there have been one BSOD with the unexpected kernel mode trap and one unexpected restart with no explanation in the event viewer except Event 41.
I contacted Dell support and they were less than helpful, turning off hardware acceleration in chrome and uninstalling and reinstalling graphic drivers.
My largest problem though has only become noticeable since that call, which is that any video eats up a large portion of CPU and GPU relative to what is normal and the laptop starts to work very hard, heating up a little and making noise. I checked this with both Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and two different video sites.
I downloaded and installed the newest Intel graphics driver that just came out (22.20.16.4836 ,A05) and just checked to see if it solved the problem. It did not.
I am in contact with Dell support but they take forever. Does anyone have any suggestion or solution? Thanks in advance!