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November 18th, 2016 15:00
Alienware 17 (2014) Shutting down while gaming
My system has been shutting down whenever I game. I thought I may have been overheating, and even redid my paste on cpu/gpu and monitored temps with HWiNFO while gaming. But temps show nothing out of the ordinary.
This started after a long session of BF1, when my system shutdown while gaming, and it was pretty hot at the time. Thats why I went and redid my paste. However, it now does it even when I barely use my gpu.
I am of the mind it may be the battery, as after it shuts down I can not boot right away. Lights will flash, but then nothing. I have to let it sit for a minute or two before it powers back on, and it will NOT power on without the power cable plugged in.
Just want to know if I may be missing something that I have not tried, I will order a new battery when I get the chance and see if that works.
Running fresh windows 10, everything updated as far as I can tell.
I have run every diagnostic test I can find on the dell website, and all test pass.
sfc /scan also passed
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