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    M1330 Power Issue

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by sheff159, Jan 3, 2009.

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    So, I had started to notice this issue towards the end of my first M1330's life span (after having the mobo replaced 3 times because of the GPU issues and stuff, got a system exchange) in which dell tried to pull on over on me by sending me 2 M1330's with the intel chip and blatantly lying to me about why until I pulled it out of them...but thats another story. And I am now seeing it again in my new M1330, that isnt yet a month old.

    So, the power issue is this. When I unplug my laptop, say carry it around my apartment a little, just use it as normal, then plug it back into the adapter, my performance comes to a stand still. Everything stops, its like the system cant recognize its power level, and just downgrades performance to basically nothing. If I unplug it, it immidetly goes back to normal performance. This happens probably 70% of the time I unplug my laptop, then try and plug it back in. Time has nothing to do with it, it seems to be at random.

    The only way to get it back to normal, is to do a shut down, plug it back in while off, then start it back up again. I looked back a bit in the forums and didnt see anything about this. Is this a known/semi-common issue like the GPU/MOBO stuff? Or is this just me having more terrible luck with dell laptops?
     
    sheff159, Jan 3, 2009
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