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    Win-7 64-bit running too hot

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nkaufman, Jun 16, 2013.

  1. nkaufman

    nkaufman Notebook Consultant

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    Recently installed Win-7 64-bit on a spare HD that I had, just to make sure that the drivers I'd gotten are all working when I eventually move to Win-7 (yeah yeah I am still on XP and love it).

    However I found that my m1530 was running much hotter under Win-7 and fan speeds were much higher than when I was running Win-xp and I was wondering if there is some tweak that I need to do to get the laptop cooler while running win-7.

    Please help.
     
    nkaufman, Jun 16, 2013
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    You are just coming from a fresh Install I presume, Windows is probably just indexing your files and maybe compiling .net updates in the background. What's your CPU usage?
     
    tijo, Jun 16, 2013
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    Great idea, Thanks.

    Since this was on a spare HD, It took that drive out. I will install the HD again in a couple of days and monitor CPU usage and let you know.

    Did not set up internet yet, so can rule out updates for now.

    Search/Indexing could be a possibility.
     
    nkaufman, Jun 19, 2013
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