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    m9750 Slowing Down and Random Power Offs

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Clean, Feb 12, 2011.

  1. Clean

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    Guys,

    My m9750 has recently started misbehaving.

    Slowing down is occuring when I play CoD Black Ops, after, say 10 minutes of normal play my FPS drops to 5, from an average of 35-50. :mad:

    When I play CoD4 MW, I can play on full settings and get a great 75-90FPS, but after 10 minutes the whole system just powers off to dead. :eek:

    Clearly something isn't happy after 10 minutes of crunching the processeor and GPUs, but nVidia Monitor is showing my SLi Cards at 84 and 76. :(

    I have about 2 months left on the Warranty so it will be going back to Alienware if I can't suss it out, but I would rather not bother as there Customer Services are notoriously poor (have they got any better since Dell ownership?).

    Any ideas, help, thoughts, suggestions, please? :confused:

    Thanks,

    Clean.
     
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  2. jiggymf

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    Check your temps, especially the GPU temps
     
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  4. Clean

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    Vacuumed out the dut, fans etc., and reseated the RAM and all looks well.

    Thank for the input!

    Clean.
     
    Clean, Feb 13, 2011
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    Did you check the temperatures of your gpu and cpu at idle and under load?

    I also assume with vacuum you do not mean with the vacuum cleaner (bad plan)?
     
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  6. Clean

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    Temps where 84 and 77 under load, and 72 and 68 at rest.

    Afraid I did vacuum with the Hoover, and it worked a treat! :)
     
    Clean, Feb 15, 2011
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    Temps look good then.
    Cleaning with a vacuum cleaner is really a very bad idea (static).
     
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  8. Clean

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    I know about the whole vacuum and static thing but I really do believe the whole static risk to PCBs issue is seriously over cooked.

    By the way, update on the Temps: the GPU Temps after freshly booting and simple internet surfing are 62 and 55 so well under control.

    Cheers for the help........ Rep +1
     
    Clean, Feb 15, 2011
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