I see I'm not alone then, but as the cpu throttling and fan issues are very annoying I do hope someone from Dell can confirm a fix for the power management in order to make us able to manage the device as it should...omn the other hand, they're suggesting to use a tool that doesn't work... :)
I noticed this today as well. Maybe the Power Manager has to be updated to whatever changes were made in the BIOS code.
Looks to me like this is just a graphic way to tune on/off options in the BIOS that are not in the Power plans.
Acts similar to the Intel Graphic interface for IRST which also is not in the power plans.
Mh I don't think so... before updating to power manager 2.0 I had 1.0 that hadn't any thermal or fan control feture but, installing the 1.0 creates new pover profile. To me the tool never worked, I'm thinking to do a clean install but I would like to avoid it if some Dell rep has a better idea than this.
I am also very interested to use the Power Manager 2.0 for the thermal options it offers, as I hope they are better than the build in from Windows. Even if not, I would like to use the Dell Option for this, but I am also not able to change the settings to Quiet or Max Performance, it always says, it doesnt get thermal Info or something like that... I am also on Bios A13 for my Venue 11 Pro with i5 4300Y.
I installed it and removed it 12 hours later. It still throws an error message "Lost contact with battery" every time it goes into IRST S4 deep sleep.
It just dawned on me that the Dell Command - Power Manager 2.0 is most likely NOT meant for my 7130 vpro i5 4300y 8/256 since it uses Inter Rapid Start Tech for sleeping. The system is sleeping peacefully in it's own 8gb SSD partition exactly where I left it when I personally put it to "sleep". The Button and Lid do nothing except turn the tablet on.
I did allow it to sleep after 5 minutes if on Battery but this function has stopped since A13 was installed.
Could have something to do with vPro, but then again, what has rapid start to do with how the fan kicks in?
My fans only kick in when another CPU or Disk intensive process starts. I found "Memory Diagnostics", "De-fragmentation", "Defender", "Windows Update Cleanup" and "Windows Error Reporting" to be the main culprits. IRST is NOT a state that can be woken up to run "Scheduled Tasks" thus I rarely ever hear my fans.
Seems like something major is messed up. Not sure what the app is supposed to do or how it works but I checked the BiOS and there are no thermal settings at all. My guess is that it is windows software / driver driven. My problem is since I installed latest BiOS and the power manger my system runs very hot and I can't do nothing about it. CPU is throttled down to 0.1GHz which makes the system unusable. Just ridiculous. System worked great before these updates and now bad as usual. Again no answer or replies from Dell.
Dell, please, fix this problem. I want to control the balance between performance and temperature myself. And you provided the tool for this - but it doesn't work. It is very frustrating. Next time I consider buying a tablet - I would look to MS Surface series first.
Lanurd
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September 19th, 2014 05:00
I installed it and removed it 12 hours later. It still throws an error message "Lost contact with battery" every time it goes into IRST S4 deep sleep.
sirmarino
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September 19th, 2014 06:00
I see I'm not alone then, but as the cpu throttling and fan issues are very annoying I do hope someone from Dell can confirm a fix for the power management in order to make us able to manage the device as it should...omn the other hand, they're suggesting to use a tool that doesn't work... :)
sollapse
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September 19th, 2014 19:00
I noticed this today as well. Maybe the Power Manager has to be updated to whatever changes were made in the BIOS code.
Lanurd
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September 19th, 2014 21:00
Looks to me like this is just a graphic way to tune on/off options in the BIOS that are not in the Power plans.
Acts similar to the Intel Graphic interface for IRST which also is not in the power plans.
sirmarino
5 Posts
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September 20th, 2014 02:00
Mh I don't think so... before updating to power manager 2.0 I had 1.0 that hadn't any thermal or fan control feture but, installing the 1.0 creates new pover profile. To me the tool never worked, I'm thinking to do a clean install but I would like to avoid it if some Dell rep has a better idea than this.
Chrischi
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September 22nd, 2014 11:00
I am also very interested to use the Power Manager 2.0 for the thermal options it offers, as I hope they are better than the build in from Windows. Even if not, I would like to use the Dell Option for this, but I am also not able to change the settings to Quiet or Max Performance, it always says, it doesnt get thermal Info or something like that... I am also on Bios A13 for my Venue 11 Pro with i5 4300Y.
Bcr5
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September 29th, 2014 15:00
I get the same error with the new power manager 2.0 and bios A13.
MarkT1891
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October 1st, 2014 03:00
Yep... same issue here. 13 BIOS with Power Manager 2.0... cannot change the thermal control settings.
9InchPianist
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October 2nd, 2014 08:00
+ 1 Here.
Lanurd
109 Posts
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October 5th, 2014 07:00
It just dawned on me that the Dell Command - Power Manager 2.0 is most likely NOT meant for my 7130 vpro i5 4300y 8/256 since it uses Inter Rapid Start Tech for sleeping. The system is sleeping peacefully in it's own 8gb SSD partition exactly where I left it when I personally put it to "sleep". The Button and Lid do nothing except turn the tablet on.
I did allow it to sleep after 5 minutes if on Battery but this function has stopped since A13 was installed.
Chrischi
3 Posts
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October 23rd, 2014 08:00
Could have something to do with vPro, but then again, what has rapid start to do with how the fan kicks in?
Lanurd
109 Posts
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October 23rd, 2014 09:00
My fans only kick in when another CPU or Disk intensive process starts. I found "Memory Diagnostics", "De-fragmentation", "Defender", "Windows Update Cleanup" and "Windows Error Reporting" to be the main culprits. IRST is NOT a state that can be woken up to run "Scheduled Tasks" thus I rarely ever hear my fans.
avs.andrew
2 Posts
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November 5th, 2014 12:00
Same problem. Dell Venue 11 pro 7130 i5 y4210.
iGetThis
184 Posts
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November 16th, 2014 12:00
Same here on MS system.
Seems like something major is messed up. Not sure what the app is supposed to do or how it works but I checked the BiOS and there are no thermal settings at all.
My guess is that it is windows software / driver driven.
My problem is since I installed latest BiOS and the power manger my system runs very hot and I can't do nothing about it. CPU is throttled down to 0.1GHz which makes the system unusable.
Just ridiculous. System worked great before these updates and now bad as usual.
Again no answer or replies from Dell.
avs.andrew
2 Posts
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November 21st, 2014 11:00
Dell, please, fix this problem. I want to control the balance between performance and temperature myself. And you provided the tool for this - but it doesn't work. It is very frustrating. Next time I consider buying a tablet - I would look to MS Surface series first.