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

Good info in this thread. I'm looking forward to getting my SXPS's arriving. I talked to my Dell rep today and they confirmed that both the 1645 and the 1647 are coming with 90W adapters. Guess I'll see what actually arrives. Both of the machines have identical configs except for the processors. I'll post comparison tests once I have them.

Oh yeah, I'm a newbie here, great place for info.

 

Man ik they're giving you so many free upgrades

I couldn't even talk the s into a free mouse when I had all my problems. Oh well they can enjoy trying to resell my laptop to some other tool

 

ppl... everything was fine until i set out to prove that my machine hasn got throttling.. p95+Furmark+100% brightness.. first fifteen minutes nothing happened then the screen started to flickr then another 10 minutes the screen suddenly went off... i wasn there in front of my lappy at this time but wen i came back and saw the cpu was running and monitor was off so i tried everything but no monitor.. then suddenly the lappy crashed.. didnt start wen i pressed power button.. unplugged the battery and tried again without any luck..
called dell ppl..
said i was gaming heavily since 2-3 hrs wen suddenly it crashed.. they sent rep.. and they confirmed some problem with motherboard.. they are replacing my pc.......... hope the next one comes without any probs like this one.........

I BLEW UP MY LAPPY

 

I don't know whether to laugh or feel sympathetic.This is what many customers who are not aware of this issue will be doing.Blowing up their laptops...

 

yeah you ppl were asking the proof for it.. i'm not complainig (it can turn out to be good as if in future it crashed like this?).. hope it was for good... O BHAIYYA ALL IS WELLLL!!!!!!!!!!! and i recommend everybody not to try the

" THROTTLEPROOF" benchmark on your respective LAPTOPS!!!!!!!!!!

and by the way i got the EDD for my replacement LAppy: 26th JANUARY!! THE REPUBLIC DAY OF INDIA!!!!! hope that dell will be on time this time!

 

and yeah i wanted to ask one more question... some of my important college data and projects and seminar presentations are in the old laptop HDD (without backup).. how do i recover it? so wen i get a new laptop can i ask dell to send rep to replace the new laptops' HDD with the old ones'?? or do you think there might be some damage to the old laptop HDD too?? (in which case how do i recover the data)??

 

why dont you image your current hd or even creat a vhd file? and then recover

 

I think people might be asking for trouble putting their systems under this kind of load. If you want to find out if your throttling or not simply boot up a fairly graphically intensive game (cysis is good) and while playing plug and unplug your 90W adpater. When it changes to battery power it will stop throtling and when your on AC it will....

 

I was also wondering about this thing. Does dell allow swaping HDD's between replacment and original machine?

n yeah kaushikpai ALL IS WELLLL!!!!!!!!!!! , until u got a full protection cover(which is default on indian website) lol

 

Hi,
Anyone that is using Winamp to sync there Ipod/Iphone, can you please tell me how you are doing this? I tried the Milpod Winamp plugin but it is not showing my Itunes playlists.

Thanks in advanced.

 

See if this link will help you:

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/07/how-to-use-winamp-to-manage-your-ipod/

 

Thanks,

For some reason winamp is not seeing my iphone

 

Did you have the 130watt adapter when you did this? If you used the 90 watt you're lucky you didn't burn your house down.

 

Also, @ Kaushikpai i wouldn't buy a Studio 17 i7 they are having just as many problems.

 

I just took delivery of my SXPS 1645. I haven't had time to mess around with ThrottleStop yet (testing out the basics first) and I've run into an odd problem.

If I use Fn-Up and Fn-Down to adjust the screen brightness, I get the little pictogram on the screen with the "ball" going to the left and the right... but the brightness never actually changes. This is true whether the machine is on battery or AC power. I have the RGBLED screen, and have updated to BIOS A03 (it shipped with A01), but have not updated the video driver.

Any idea what's going on here?

 

I had that problem....I'm trying to remember what fixed it. Give me a moment to find the post: Dell wanted to replace the screen, but it fixed itself somehow.

Try opening and closing the screen a few times because I can't seem to find the post. It was in a topic dedicated to some other screen problem....try searching under my name.

~Ibrahim~

 

Get this all the time! Shut down the system, disconnect AC adapter and pull the battery out and put it back in. Should fix the problem!

 

Aha! Yep, popping the battery out and back in fixed it. Thanks -- you saved me from having to deal with (shudder) Dell support.

 

Could be worse, it could've been *gasp* HP support.

 

I don't keep up with this thread very much.

I just have one question. Do you think it is a good/bad time to buy any version of the SXPS 16**?

 

Depends what you want... I love my laptop but I also don't game on it.

I have had no problems with my system yet. I did run futuremark with no issues, but I didn't do Prime 95 plus future mark, etc...

If you a looking for a good laptop that is fast and is also nice to use, then there is no downside to making a purchase. If you want to be confident that you can really tax the system and chew through games with no problem at the highest settings, and also know that your system can take full advantage of the CPU, then you may not be happy.

I considered returning my laptop and getting an Alienware, but there are sacrafices to Alienware. The Dell XPS 1645 is a comfortable system to use. Big keyboard, nice built in speakers, etc.

Like I said, it depends on what is important to you.

You can become obsessed with the fact that there is a throttling issue, even if the issue never impacts your actual performance or satisfaction with the system. If it bothers you and you are going to obsess with stress testing and benchmarks, then don't buy it.

 

No. I have a sneaking suspicion that Dell is going to come out with the 5730 on SXPS models soon in the USA. If you're in Canada, grab that, now!

 

HEY YOU KEEP THAT KIND OF LANGUAGE OUT OF HERE.

 

guys,

I need a favor. I just received my studio 1645. Strangely, it came with the old A01 bios.

Now for the favor, all our laptops have a serial number which can be found below the battery.. you'll find it by removing the battery. My serial starts with CN-.. ends with A00. I was wondering if that is normal or does anyone have a serial ending with a greater hardware/bios revision, like A01 , A03 etc..?

I am afraid that I might have received a user's returned system lol :S

Please help! Thanks !

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my location: Malaysia.
specs: core i7 720qm, 4GB ram, 16" RGBLED, Intel Wifi 5300.

 

Can you disable hyperthreading in the BIOS and does it make a difference?

 

PERFECTLY QUOTED...... i was loving this machine until i set to to prove it was throttleproof and blew it up............

 

Can't and it probably wouldn't if it could. Windows usually parks half the cores (parked = ?off?), anyways, and I have suspicion they're the HT ones.

~Ibrahim~

 

Anybody else getting dust in the lcd? Anybody get it out? I think I saw a screen dis-assembly guide somewhere so if any one can post the link I'd be grateful.

 

I've been having problems with my rgb screen flickering when under 50% brightness. Got the screen changed for 2nd time and the motherboard changed today and still got the same problem. The engineer confirmed that he seen it still flickering.

I'm thinking of telling them to replace my sxps with just the standard 1080p screen but would like some feedback on how good that screen is?

I'll also be due a refund for the rgb screen but was thinking of asking for the 256gb ssd or upgrading to the i7-820. Has anyone got any experience of getting some upgrades if they have been having trouble with their machines? If so, whats the best way to go about getting them to throw these in?

Thanks

 

Out of curiosity, anyone know whether it'd be possible to finagle a return outside of the 21-day period? Unfortunately I don't have an open case with Dell regarding the throttling issue...

While I'm overall happy with the purchase, I'm starting to get to a point where I'd rather take my money elsewhere to drive home a point.

 

It is. I've been in contact with them about the throttling issue (read: stalling so I have a laptop to use while I wait for my 1647). They've sent me a half dozen parts to swap out. Poor techs, they have no clue what's wrong. I've never had one BS me and tell me that they knew the issue, or some nonsense like that.

 

Well that's the thing.. I'm aware of the fact that you can manage a return if you've had an unresolved case from before your 21-day period ended. Unfortunately I received my system on 11/30 and never called Dell, so I imagine it's too late for me to do anything now...

If anything, it's my fault for placing my faith in Dell.

 

Actually, if you have at least 3 confirmed/repeated failures or problems on a system, they would probably give you a new one. but yea I don't think you can return it for cash otherwise.

 

I think if you complain enough now about it and about how it's ruining your enjoyment of the system, can't utilize it's full potential and threaten them with lawyers about not selling you what they stated etc, then you will probably get a return out of it.

I e-mailed [email protected] and got a call back from Dell corporate, he researched what I told him about throttling and got back to me stating there was a fix on the way, i said i'll be over the moon if they can fix the issue but if its not fixed in a few weeks I want a refund and he agreed. I was going on about how I loved the system and really didn't want to return it but with the throttling I was paying a premium for a not so premium system!

Since then i'm gonna have to return it because of the screen anyway.

All of this was outside the 21 day period!

 

I got my 1645 system two days ago. Need help. Although it is pretty cool, but it's fan is almost always running and the noise is annoying. The fan only slows down after long breaks of inactivity, but as soon as I do anything, even clicking a browser link, it kicks back in. It is noisy. I also have a 1640 system and the fan on that is virtually quiet. Help please!!!!!

 

Ha,

I got that too when I had mine, there's probably a piece of Packing plastic (plastic bag like) stuck between the fan and the heat sink grills..

Remove the bottom plate then slide out the vent cover, then there's a piece of Black tape basically sealing the heat sink to the fan, remove that, and between that gap, I saw a piece of plastic bag left over from manufacturing that was blocking most of the vent when I removed that... bam.. the unit cooled down, fan started to run cooler, and quieter...

there are some breakdown instructions around the net you can probably find how to get to that heat sink area.

good luck

 

hmmm, interesting. I read that issue from you probably, a while ago...but I thought that it was an isolated case. But I think that I will have to take a look myself. This noise is killing me.... Thanks.

 

yea I would think its an isolated issue, but its worth a look, who knows, maybe the same guy who assembled mine could have put your notebook together too.. and maybe he skipped out on removing the plastic..

All i can say is that after I removed it, the fan was really quiet even when the cpu was working hard.

 

wow. Thats a sad story I wouldn't expect this from Dell. I guess i should.

 

can someone please give me a link to the RGB color profile (.icc file) that I can use with my 1645. Greatly appreciated. I did try one from the 1640 forum....didn't make any difference.

 

They're the same screen, AFAIK. There are lots of profiles in that one uber-thread, maybe there are others?

~Ibrahim~

 

ok, I will try some. It's just that some are available as .txt I think and i don't know how to load them as a profile.

 

Ah.....interesting. Maybe they changed the extension just so they could upload them to the forums?

Try changing them to *.icc or whatever the extension is and then try loading them. Warning: this might be bad, as they could really be text files, but it's an idea.

 

Why not try changing a known .icc file to a .txt file and compare the new file to the .txt file in question.
If they compare the same, then it would be safe to convert it to a .icc file.

 

There's an idea.

 

All you have to do is remove the .txt extension from the file leaving the .icc as the final extension. and install it under color management profiles.

 

ok, that helps. Thanks. Do let me know of any color profile that you think is the best/most accurate.

 

Distracting fan noise:
I notice that the fan on my 1645 system is noticeably louder than that on my 1640-based system. On my 1645, it kicks into 'speed # 2' as soon as a I open a webpage or click on a link.......speed # 1 being the quietest. Many times it just kicks into speed#2 while idle. I have it on balanced + passive CPU cooling on power. on my 1640, it's usually on speed#1 unless doing something intensive.

Here's what I have:
1645: 720qm, 6GB, 4670, 500GB 7200RPM, RGB LED.
1640: p8600, 4gb, 4670, 320GB 7200 RPM, RGB LED.

is anyone else experiencing the same issue? It's that the noise is kind of distracting in a quiet room. I have the original Dell install of windows 7, A03 bios. Any ideas/solution?

 

i have a i7-820 6G SSD.

my fan kicks on every single time. even in idle, which gets annoying at time.

 

any solution to reduce fan speed then?