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    XPS 15 9560 - temps up, battery life down. Help ?!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Chemware, Jul 15, 2019.

  1. Chemware

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    My 9560 (i7-7700HQ, 16GB, SSD+HDD, FHD, 56 WHr) is over a year old, and I undervolted it (-145 mV) from the start.

    Its temperature was in the low 30Cs, and battery life about 6-8 hours, in light usage.

    Two weeks ago I noticed that the temperature has jumped to the low 40Cs (so a rise of +20 F), and battery life dropped to about 3 hours. This was a not a gradual change, but seemed to happen overnight. It was about the time of some Windows updates, and Dell updates, but I am not sure if those were the cause.

    Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix it ?

    I tried Ubuntu as a check, but it froze at the desktop.
     
    Chemware, Jul 15, 2019
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