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alienware 18 running at 1.7ghz?????

Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by jtravapd8578, May 21, 2015.

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SO today i started up my laptop to play some games, and i noticed aida was showing my CPU clock jumping all over the place from 1.798mhz, lol just now it was running at 18mhz. lol I ran the dell dianostics test before starting windows and all hardware passed. i had overlocking in my bios off, and was using XTU to run my cpu at 41 x4. normally with no problems. right now it says its running at 1798Mhz @ all cores are around 50 degrees. Anyone ever heard of this happening before? maybe should i uninstall xtu? and reinstall it again? CPu-z is showing the same readings as aida64.

jtravapd8578, May 21, 2015

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nevermind, a hard reset, bios back to defaults, remove battery, drain power ect. and its working again. man I can't figure out how to operate this machine correctly

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The CPU in normal operation on the desktop will lower the frequency to save power as full performance is not required during normal day to day computer tasks.

Meaker@Sager, May 22, 2015

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