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    SXPS 1645 Shutdowns

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Fenikkusu, Jun 19, 2010.

  1. Fenikkusu

    Fenikkusu Notebook Evangelist

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    So with the terrible throttling experience of the newest iteration of Dell's 1645 bios is rolled back to A03, and I've resumed using Throttlestop as my workaround. What has happened twice now is while gaming specifically Dragon Age: Origins the system eventually randomly shuts off. No blue screen, no warning, and nothing logged when I get back on. Has this happened to anyone else? Possible causes?
     
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    heat issue?
     
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    The temps are within the normal range...
     
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    I think its GPU over heating. Once I overclocked my GPU and in the range of 90C it shutdown, like off and no warnings.
     
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    Come to think of it this did happen to me on A08...when I underclocked to get around the thermal throttling for the GPU. That probably is what's happening. Why though? The GPU is able to operate at up to 100C
     
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