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    M1730 bios forced crash

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by FruitSaladExtreme, Feb 8, 2010.

  1. FruitSaladExtreme

    FruitSaladExtreme Notebook Consultant

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    Up till now, I thought my M1730 was an impregnable fortress of cooling genius.

    Today, I stand corrected.

    I played MoHA, and on all occasions, my bios crashed my M1730 due to high temperatures.

    I'm really stumped, I forced all 3 fans on at once and yet I still can't play it.

    Suggestions?
     
    FruitSaladExtreme, Feb 8, 2010
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  2. SomeFormOFhuman

    SomeFormOFhuman has the dumbest username.

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    Define "BIOS crash". What exactly did it do to your machine and how did it happen? And what temperature levels were you experiencing? Was there any artifecting on screen?
     
    SomeFormOFhuman, Feb 8, 2010
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  3. FruitSaladExtreme

    FruitSaladExtreme Notebook Consultant

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    No artifacting. I would just be cruising my way through, then suddenly G15 would display 1 frame.

    My keyboard illuminates for a millisecond and my machine would suddenly come to a stop.

    Wait about 10 seconds (I guess for the cooldown period), reboot. Receive message from bios I've been experiencing abnormally high temperatures.

    F1 to run normally F2 to enter setup F5 to enter diagnostic

    Edit: How trustworthy is the 9800M GTX SLI compared to the 8800M GTX SLI build?
     
    FruitSaladExtreme, Feb 8, 2010
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  4. freedom16

    freedom16 Notebook Deity

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    The SLI 9800GTX can be brought up to the speeds of a gtx 280. Its reliable as any card, its just people sometimes have bad luck you know. It tends to run kinda hot sometimes but with this machine you have to constantly clean your fans, try cleaning your fans believe me it works wonders, a small little amount of dust can increase heat to 10 or so more Celsius.
     
    freedom16, Feb 9, 2010
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