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    Hot power supply

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by MobileCalista, Oct 3, 2010.

  1. MobileCalista

    MobileCalista Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've noticed my power supply for my notebook is like extremely hot lately.. It is way hotter then one should expect for a laptop power supply. I'm going to call dell on this issue, just wondering if anyone else has had this issue..
     
    MobileCalista, Oct 3, 2010
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  2. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    This happens to me frequently when I am running the adapter on 220V. The only 2 times it happened to me when running on 110V was just a few weeks before the laptop charger died.

    I think you are doing the right thing by calling Dell, and getting that part replaced ASAP.
     
    kent1146, Oct 3, 2010
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  3. TalonH

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    I've heard reports that if you're charging your battery and running the discrete GPU it'll run hotter because the brick is undervolted or something.
     
    TalonH, Oct 3, 2010
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    Mine is running hot. I currently have the stock heatsink that comes with an i7 920 on it. It helps some, but a lot more when i set a fan on top of the hs.
     
    Tedster59, Oct 3, 2010
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    Yeah mine gets really hot too, but well most people dont unplug the ac adapter and the ac adapter keeps running even though is not charging...that damages the life use of the ac adapter I think.
     
    Skillman01, Oct 4, 2010
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    How do you turn off the setting that keeps trying to charge your battery when it's already charged? There was a thread around here where someone figured it out but I never took the time to look into myself. Now I want to.
     
    Stickman, Oct 4, 2010
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    Partizan Notebook Deity

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    I expected it to be normal for a powersupply to be hot. Mine is too hot to touch (have an acer, not aw) and its been like this for at least a year, no problems yet...
     
    Partizan, Oct 4, 2010
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  8. sagman76

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    Its in the Bios. Which to me seems a bit of pain having to reset every time your battery is full. Maybe I'm just lazy!!
    When i'm gaming say on BC2 OC'd GPU/CPU mine gets so hot you cant hardly hold it. Any hotter I could use it as a back up electric stove.
     
    sagman76, Oct 4, 2010
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    Do not wrap the power cables around it the power brick when it is being used. That makes it much more hot as well.
     
    Stain, Oct 4, 2010
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  10. MobileCalista

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    well mine is getting hot enough the stickers on it are starting to peel off and smells of heated plastic.. so that isnt good.
     
    MobileCalista, Oct 4, 2010
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    I just duct-taped a pentium pro HS and a 60 mm fan, along with some Tuniq TX-2 to my power brick. running much cooler now
     
    Tedster59, Oct 4, 2010
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