Dell Media direct button, can it be disabled

[have a nice day and pleasant evening]

if mediadirect button is hit incidentally, it will turn on the laptop
without the knowledge of the owner which will drain the battery.

i have looked in bios and dell media experience but could not find the
required solution.

thanx in advance

[dumbGenius]

laptop is inspiron 630m

[WaIIy]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:32:08 -0700 (PDT), have a nice day and pleasant

Post by have a nice day and pleasant evening
if mediadirect button is hit incidentally, it will turn on the laptop
without the knowledge of the owner which will drain the battery.
i have looked in bios and dell media experience but could not find the
required solution.
thanx in advance

Formatting the drive doesn't work. I did that and my Media button sorta
boots the computer and eventually leads to a blue screen.

You could write "Do Not Touch" in really tiny letters.

I personally find it a bit difficult to hit that button accidentally.

[Timothy Daniels]

Post by have a nice day and pleasant evening
if mediadirect button is hit incidentally, it will turn on the laptop
without the knowledge of the owner which will drain the battery.
i have looked in bios and dell media experience but could not
find the required solution.

Dell uses a proprietary IPL (Initial Program Loader) in the
laptop's MBR that interprets button pushes and function keys.
If you're willing to lose the ability to boot directly to the diagnostic
utilities and to the System Restore partition, you can replace the
MBR with the standard Microsoft MBR by running "fixmbr" in
the Recovery Console. (Check with Dell tech rep first, to see if
the MBR in the Dell-supplied installation CD/DVD is the standard
Microsoft MBR.)

*TimDaniels*