Hi all,

I have my Precision 5550 with an Core i7-10875H and a Quadro T2000 since January 2021 and it was performing quite well. Throttling always has been an issue, but in the whole time I'm using it, it only shutdown once because of thermal overheating when rendering a 3D Blender file with CPU and GPU for about one hour.

But in the last two days I realised, that I can't even get Blender to render for one minute without the Laptop shutting down. Yesterday and today I had at around 8 shutdowns (to be exact the Laptop goes into hibernation mode) which is unacceptable for a "Workstation" Laptop. Please also note that I am using this machine in an air conditiond office, so even hot days in Europe/Austria can't be the issue...

The following event is logged to Windows when overheating occurs:

Das System wurde aufgrund eines kritischen thermischen Ereignisses in den Ruhezustand versetzt.
Zeit für den Ruhezustand = ‎2022‎-‎08‎-‎18T16:16:17.803401400Z 
ACPI-Thermozone = Intel(R) Dynamic Tuning: VIR2 
_HOT = 353K

For me it looks like that there is something wrong with one of the last BIOS updates. The laptop was working quite fine and now I can't event get one Blender render to completion. My current BIOS version is 1.17.0.

I have the option "Optimized" enabled in the Dell Power Manager. Also tried "Ultra-Power" which is even worse.

Does anyone else have had increased occurences of this thermal shutdown in the past?