So I figured out that it's actually a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue, because it's been BSODing every 20 minutes or so all morning for me. I finally rolled back the BIOS to version 1.2.0, which is what it was when it came from the factory, and it seems to have cleared it up.
In short, do not upgrade the BIOS of the Alienware m15 R2 system, Windows 10 Pro doesn't seem to like it that much.
HOW DO YOU DOWNGRADE THE BIOS @delta_kiloz ? IM GETTING NUTS ABOUT THIS.
Please if you wanna achieve the most performance on this laptop DO NOT INSTALL THE BIOS 1.5.2 this will just kill your performance , you're bot going to compete with other laptops with same specifics (i think even worse) because the hit in this laptop is ridicolous if you don't tunning the right way. Here is when dell make a huge fall, because the limit the power and ratio for the gpu, when this never never achieve mor than 80 C, but they do it anyway, but there was a simply solution for this, you just needed to undervolting like -.15v and limit turbo boost for 70W and you were ready to go (factors like weather, location, positoon lf laptoo, etc... could need more/less of this option). And they didnt stop there because for som weak in the security of undervolting and power management of the cpu they just block every tunning app like XTU, so you just have to accept a burning hands and low performence cpu throlling if you want uktra graphics wich other laptops can run with same expects.
delta_kiloz
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November 30th, 2019 10:00
So I figured out that it's actually a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue, because it's been BSODing every 20 minutes or so all morning for me. I finally rolled back the BIOS to version 1.2.0, which is what it was when it came from the factory, and it seems to have cleared it up.
In short, do not upgrade the BIOS of the Alienware m15 R2 system, Windows 10 Pro doesn't seem to like it that much.
Tommyj90
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December 10th, 2019 13:00
I'm having the same issue where can I downgrade?
mr_moe1981
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January 3rd, 2020 05:00
Facing other issues, but I want to downgrade, too. But how? The windows bios installer from Dell doesn't allow me to downgrade
RPP01
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June 19th, 2020 01:00
HOW DO YOU DOWNGRADE THE BIOS @delta_kiloz ? IM GETTING NUTS ABOUT THIS.
Please if you wanna achieve the most performance on this laptop DO NOT INSTALL THE BIOS 1.5.2 this will just kill your performance , you're bot going to compete with other laptops with same specifics (i think even worse) because the hit in this laptop is ridicolous if you don't tunning the right way. Here is when dell make a huge fall, because the limit the power and ratio for the gpu, when this never never achieve mor than 80 C, but they do it anyway, but there was a simply solution for this, you just needed to undervolting like -.15v and limit turbo boost for 70W and you were ready to go (factors like weather, location, positoon lf laptoo, etc... could need more/less of this option). And they didnt stop there because for som weak in the security of undervolting and power management of the cpu they just block every tunning app like XTU, so you just have to accept a burning hands and low performence cpu throlling if you want uktra graphics wich other laptops can run with same expects.
RPP01
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June 19th, 2020 02:00
Do you find how?
delta_kiloz
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June 19th, 2020 05:00
It's been a while since I did it, but the youtube video looks familiar to me, and here's another resource to use as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbpVMU7Q9w
https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware/m15-downgrade-from-BIOS-2-0-4/td-p/7309791