E7450 Latitude keys repeating / sticking / bouncing. OS Linux Mint KDE 17.1 64 bit

Keys sticking and repeating.
Cannot be reproduced at will but will happen every few minutes or so while typing.
I have not seen this when booting in to Windows 7.
This problem makes this expensive computer frustrating to use. There have been akin reports for the previous model which some have suggested has been fixed with a bios update. Maybe when the Dell developers forked the bios development for the e7450 from the previous model, the bug went with the fork and needs to be patched in to the e7450 line.
Can Dell people please comment upon this, preferably with a fix or time line for a fix.

BIOS version A03 seems to have fixed this problem.

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