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    **The Official Studio XPS 1645 Intel Core i7 "Owners Lounge" - Part 2

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Cin', Nov 9, 2009.

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    Yes, that's what the holes are.
     
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    Concerning the voice input, I have to say it is pretty amazing as well. Great quality! Everyone I use voice chat with say that it's fantastic...
     
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    Well most probably in the next update or something they might tweak it so that you do not feel so happy about that either in your laptop.... Am jus saying!!! :D :cool: :rolleyes:
     
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    so does the powerdvd that came with the machine only play solid dvd in my DVD drive? what if for example I download movies in 1080 format. will I be able to get that "truetheatre" experience from powerdvd?
     
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    i think its 2 mics right?
     
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    I'd assume so, since it's labelled as a "Microphone Array". The sound quality is definitely quite good!
     
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    I also have a question about PowerDVD DX... is there any possible way to enable BD-Live on it, perhaps an update or something? I'm not expecting much but if I'm just missing it then please let me know!
     
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    are owners who have the 5730m card able to confirm is it is using DDR3 or GDDR3 VRAM using GPU-Z

    4670sgupz.PNG

    Thankyou.
     
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    Thankyou 10char
     
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    Guys NEED Help :(.. I had restored my Laptop using the Dell datasafe, i tried to restore to the factory image. I had partitioned the hardrive when i recieved initially. so i had totally 4 partiton drives. After the recovery i was able to see only TWO partitions. ie the OS partition and One another partion tha ti had done before. sometimes when i log in i can see the other two drives but i'm not able to access it.When clicked on the partition it says "Refers to location that is unavailable ".. When i try using the diskmanagement tool i can see theses drives and it says it has the contents . so please help me to recover those partions..
     
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    under control panel>computer mgmt>disk mgmt what discription for each drive/partition and what color for each drive/partition
     
  14. tijojoy

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    It's all White in Colour and when selected the Selection wil be shown with LInes in it. i can Format the partition. but when i tried to change the drive letter Assigned to it, it didn't allow me to do it :(
     
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    it should be all white, but what color are the lines on top of the white box, blue/darkblue/black/green/dark green they all mean something different if you look in the legend. when you format are you using ntfs and quick format? should probably run hd diag/ck dsk to see if there are any errors on your drive. if not then idk, you might have absorb them into your current functioning partitions and if you want from there you can reallocate and add a new partition.
     
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    hey!!! i hv an issue here...jst 2day i got my screen replaced cause of some reason...1st of al d enggr was in a hurry...n roughly handled d laptop...n 2nd and more importantly he improperly attached d new screen..as in d left glowing ring doesnt glow nemore cause of d fact dt d wire dt powers it has been ripped off while replacing d screen...while he was at it i e1 showed him dt piece of d wire (though at dt moment i did nt knw 2 which part dz it belong 2)...he very irresponsibly said its a dead piece of wire which he replaced...
    So my question 2 all of u is...shd i call up customer care again...2 resolve dis issue...or shd i let it b...(since it dznt fiddle with the functionality..)....though m very finicky about e1 d smallest of d scratches...plz guide me...
    P.S : i have already got my screen replaced once before this due to dead pixels problem..
     
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    Thanks I quite enjoyed the challenge. I was stuck on e1 for a minute, but think I cracked it. Is it 'even' ?

    If you have total care, then you should bring it up. If not, just be pleased that you managed to get them to change the screen.
     
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    youtube Here is a small clip of me playing black ops showing my framerate on my 5730.
     
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    So I have a SXPS 1645 with the i7 720q and the Radeon 4670 video card. I have seen the question posed on here with similar symptoms, but none exactly like mine.

    I too have the issue with playing flash videos...at least I am having them mostly with flash videos, as well as any games that require flash...say a facebook type of game. The computer will start seriously lagging, and then almost freeze up. After that, the audio goes haywire (sounds like the terminator dying), and then freezes momentarily. Generally I can wait this out by closing the browser, but it is a pain when it is maxing out all 8 cores.

    However, I have noticed this problem happening outside of using a browser and flash. I also use this to watch movies. So when playing an M2TS file or say an h264 MKV file (Via a 4TB D-Link DNS-321 with a D-link N band router using XBMC)), that I will eventually start getting lagging audio, and jittery playback. Upon looking at What is going on with my system, every time it is my processor going crazy. I keep a GPU and CPU gadget on my desktop to be able to see real time readouts of what is going on with the system, and my GPU is hardly breaking a sweat. The CPU however is fluctuating like crazy, and maxes out all 8 cores regularly.

    I have had Dell customer support on this, and they have actually sent someone to my house, and completely swapped the mobo out for a brand new one. NO CHANGE. I have had ATI on it (before I had the GPU gadget), and they were no help. It makes me wonder if Intel customer support could be any help at all. I have also updated my ATI to the latest drivers, and I have also installed Flash Square that is optimized for 64 bit operating systems. I just find it hard to believe that with a machine of this caliber, that the i7 Quad Core Hyperthreaded processor can't play a flash video or a compressed HD video without flipping out.

    I have exhausted all options here that I can think of...any suggestions?
     
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    Download Iarsn TaskInfo and have it running while you operate your machine. It gives you readings about exactly what process is using what amount of processor bandwidth, memory and where the executable is from. When your PC starts acting up, check the program and see what is tasking your processor then google to find a solution or post back the results..
     
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    Thanks for the heads up...I'll give it a shot and post the results.
     
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    Anybody using Fedora 14 on their system? Facing troubles with WiFi and Bluetooth switching.
     
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    So here is a screen shot from the middle of a full on meltdown. It took about two minutes just to minimize the firefox browser window and get the task info window up, but I managed to get a screenshot of the processes taking up the most CPU% (anything outside of the cropped screen shot was not taking any CPU% at all so I left it out). Let me know if there is a specific parameter I should focus on as there are many things that are monitored with this program.
     

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    Wow... How many desktop gadgets do you have loaded? They're quite a drain on your system. I don't think that the gadgets are the source of your problem though.

    I know you said that you have the newest video drivers installed, but did you also install the AVIVO software updates? For some reason on the mobility drivers sometimes you have to download and install them separately. The AVIVO software is what allows your GPU to do video decoding instead of your CPU, and may solve your problem. Download and install these and see what happens.

    http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx#3
     
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    I noticed one of the things that is going crazy, and also is affected by flash is the firefox plug in container. A little bit of searching yielded this possible solution...

    I am also looking into updating my driver for my Radeon 4650 video card as I currently have driver version 8.692.1.0 but I found this

     
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    I don't think they are either as they don't represent any real drain on the system until it goes haywire...I think that they are working so hard to keep up with the fluctuations in what is going on that they in turn are using more CPU. However, here is a screen shot of the three I use. The top two I have used for a little while, and the bottom intel one I found on their site. It seems to be more accurate as far as my clock speed and when it auto overclocks.

    We'll see what happens from here as I have applied the new ATI Catalyst 10.6 and the AVIVO driver package. I am also going to revert back to Flash 10.1 since ATI is now optimized to work with 10.1 (I recently installed Flash Square as it is a new Flash beta that is optimized for 64 bit systems).
     

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    Hello to all,
    i've recently installed in dual boot Windows XP om my XPS 1645.

    After bit of search i've managed to install all the drivers. For the ATI i've used a tool, mobility modder, that let me use the Catalyst 10.4 with XP.

    However i noticed that the performance are terrible! The fan is often at full speed, the windows drawing on the screen are damn slow. I think that could be an issue with the Catalyst, but maybe is necessary some tweak for the CPU too? In the system performance i see all the 8 thread, but i don't know how the scaling is managed.

    Any experience/suggestions?
     
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    Is there any reason why you're sticking with XP? XP doesn't support DX10 or 11, it won't use more than about 2.5GB of your RAM, and it doesn't really take advantage of multi-core CPUs.

    Also, try using these drivers, they may help http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=195

    It's only version 8.7, but they're designed to work with XP, and are the best you're going to get for a 10 year old OS. Modded versions of modern drivers are a bad idea, as Vista and 7 have a completely different driver and graphics framework than XP did. Trying to use incompatible drivers is probably the main cause of your problems.
     
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    Thanks for pointing me to that driver, i will try it asap. Since i don't need 3D performance it should fit. Actually i've a triple boot system, Ubuntu, Win7 and XP, i need XP for work reason, many software don't run on 7.

    I will report the outcome of this driver.

    Regards
     
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    I thought Catalyst Version 10.11 is out. Why is it that you are sticking with the old 10.6? Although that may not be the issue here.....
     
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    Another possible solution here is to run XP in a virtual machine (eg virtualbox) for those apps that won't run in windows 7
     
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    SkyWraith beat me to it. Install Oracle VM VirtualBox, it's free and great. You can install as many virtual machines as you need and you don't need to go hunting for drivers.
     
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    I used Virtualbox under ubuntu, but the VM has not the performance that i need.
     
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    10.6 was what I found on ATI's site...I have now upgraded to 10.11 suite. I have also disabled Audiodg.exe or windows audio enhancements which was eating up a large portion of CPU when my computer was going crazy.

    I changed all of those a few minutes ago, but I have still had the issue a couple of times withing the past few days.
     
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    Guys Need help .. One key of my Keay board came off just now. It has been only 2 months since i got it. Does the dell wil replace the key board?
     
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    dell will replace anything under warranty
     
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    I managed to install old not modded drivers and the performance are slightly better, but still poor. I think that could not be a graphics card only issue, maybe there's a problem in CPU governor under XP? Sadly i can't use Rightmark CPU Utility, anyone have an alternative for i7 processors?

    Many thanks.

    Regards.
     
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    i think it is a matter of XP not being able to handle the newer i-series processors. though i don't have the same problems you're reporting, i do notice that Win XP doesn't operate as "smoothly" on my newer i7 processor than my old T7200 on my previous notebook. for example, applications "stutter" a little bit for the first short while upon opening a new application. once it's open and loaded though, it works without issue.

    i don't have an absolute answer for why this happens, but from my experience at least i find that my i7 processor seems a bit sluggish opening and running intensive stuff compared to my old Core 2 Duo processor.
     
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    Good afternoon folks
    I received an exchange for my xps m1530 a studio xps 1645 with an i7 840qm processor.
    My problem is how in the heck do i test the turbo boost. I can run prime95 and load all 8 threads which shows on the cpu gadget 100% but the intel turbo boost gadget still shows 1.87gh.

    how do I test the processor and is there anything that I need to turn on to enable the turbo boost?

    I have searched the forum and really don't see what to do. I have throttlestop hardware monitor and prime95. Is there anything else to use to test this thing so I can relax and know that all is well.
    Thanks a lot in advance

    Gary Smith
     
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    It won't boost if all threads are loaded. Try only running 2 or 3 threads in Prime95, then your turbo boost will shoot up.
     
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    i recently got my HDD replaced. But the new one and my old was are both not Seagate which is what I should have. I wanted that free fall sensor just in case. But i figured no biggie. But once loaded in, it constantly makes a ringing noise. I dont know if that was present when I had the old one. Maybe its not the HDD so it was there before. Not a big problem I guess. Still i notice it.
    The worst is I hear a ticking noise from the HDD. I am pretty sure my old one did not do that. Is everyone's HDD making a noise like a pen or a pencil tapping on the computer every so often? I want to return it and tell them to make sure its the Seagate even if they have little control over what brand I get.
     
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    Even if it's not the Seagate it is still free-fall protected. Also, the Toshiba or Hitachi drives that Dell uses instead of the Seagate are actually slightly faster. The Toshiba in mine is totally silent. Though if the noise bothers you Dell should replace it.
     
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    I want to. The image they put on the HDD does not contain any programs that came with my original. I wanted Office. I think that was the only thing i used. Also how do you access the image just in case OS fails?
     
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    You can always backup your disc image by using a program such as Acronis True Image. If you backup the image it will contain every program and setting.
     
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    well i meant like something i could access if my OS faulted.
     
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    Hey guys,

    I wonder if somebody could help me with the following. My HD (Samsung PM800 with the non-TRIM firmware) performance experience has been decreasing rapidly as of late, and its come to the point that my system sometimes just 'freezes up' (for lack of a better word) before then continuing whatever it was doing. I was very active on here end of 2009 and beginning of 2010 helping to investigate the 164x adapter throttling issue and I remember at the time somebody posted they managed to get their SSD replaced (the old SSD with firmware VBM19D1Q for the VBM24D1Q one), and they simply told Dell a certain error messages (BSOD type error message I believe). It was necessary to convince some Dell reps as Dell Diagnostics can't find any bad sectors on the disk, but performance really is very laggy. Took me 1h30-2h to restore my factory image (from the recovery partition on SSD) from less than 10mins last year. So if somebody could tell what error message signifies a broken SSD that'd be great as I can't find back that post after having spent the last 2 hours looking for it.

    Thanks.
     
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    It's probably not broken, just full of garbage to the point that writes take forever, and there is no TRIM there for garbage collection. If you don't mind making a backup of everything, you could try running a secure erase utility on your drive. It will completely erase everything, requiring you to either reinstall or restore from a backup, but it should restore your performance.

    If not, you could always call Dell and see what they have to say. I'm sure if you complained enough they would give you a new one.
     
  48. Synthesia

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    Well the funny thing is performance remains just as bad after having performed a format and also after having restored the factory image (from the recovery drive on the SSD itself). Last year that took less than 10 minutes, now the recovery took almost 2 hours..
     
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    A format and a secure erase aren't the same thing.
     
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    Ok seeker_moc thanks for the advice. How would I go about doing a secure erase? Does Acronis True Image do that?

    Here are my terrible CrystalDiskMark benchmarks:

    [​IMG]
     
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