I have the same problem but with a Latitude D830. I'm kinda puzzled because it used to work okay with games like Half-Life 2, The Settlers V, Left For Dead, Bioshock and all older ones.
But suddenly it started to behave strangely after couple of minutes just as you described. I think the video card is overheating and the cooling is not enough to keep it cool. I haven't tried putting it near a window or something, however.
The funny thing is, that suddenly I'm reading everywhere that my video card (Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) is not for gaming. But it used to work well so I don't believe this explanation.
I have been having the same problem except I have the 9400m in my computer. I cannot place it on any soft surface or it gets so hot that it feels almost as if it would burn me or the surface its on. From what I have been reading is that the temperatures of the Nvidia chipsets and graphics cards that are put into these computers just run a lot hotter than most other chipsets. The large amount of heat produced by the Studio XPS 13 is mainly due to the faulty design of having one heatpipe under the screen for both the graphics card and the CPU and the high temperatures of the graphics chip. I have been reading that most people seem to have gotten better temperatures out of their computers and better performance by replacing the stock thermal pads under the cooler with higher end thermal paste/grease. Try replacing those pads and then try undervolting and should see a much cooler and faster laptop
sdmarshall
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June 1st, 2009 14:00
is anyone having any similar problems?
mondomg
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June 5th, 2009 09:00
I have the same problem but with a Latitude D830. I'm kinda puzzled because it used to work okay with games like Half-Life 2, The Settlers V, Left For Dead, Bioshock and all older ones.
But suddenly it started to behave strangely after couple of minutes just as you described. I think the video card is overheating and the cooling is not enough to keep it cool. I haven't tried putting it near a window or something, however.
The funny thing is, that suddenly I'm reading everywhere that my video card (Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) is not for gaming. But it used to work well so I don't believe this explanation.
sdmarshall
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June 5th, 2009 16:00
Its very frustrating, im trying to find someone else with the same model laptop so i can run a comparision! I dont really know what else to do
mondomg
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June 5th, 2009 17:00
I've spoken to my dealer and he advised me to have it cleaned by some qualified person. He thinks it may be the dirt in the cooling vent. If that doesn't work, I should reinstall the operating system and run the diagnostics on the clean copy because it could be the video card.
Have you read this article? http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/09/12/nvidia-gpu-update-limited-warranty-enhancement-details.aspx
Andrew McNabb
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June 6th, 2009 09:00
I would read this and follow it to the letter. It solved all my heat problems.
Scarface2k3
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June 6th, 2009 10:00
So did the update to the bios not have any effect. I thought after the latest update the laptop ran cooler?
Luke D
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July 28th, 2009 00:00
I have been having the same problem except I have the 9400m in my computer. I cannot place it on any soft surface or it gets so hot that it feels almost as if it would burn me or the surface its on. From what I have been reading is that the temperatures of the Nvidia chipsets and graphics cards that are put into these computers just run a lot hotter than most other chipsets. The large amount of heat produced by the Studio XPS 13 is mainly due to the faulty design of having one heatpipe under the screen for both the graphics card and the CPU and the high temperatures of the graphics chip. I have been reading that most people seem to have gotten better temperatures out of their computers and better performance by replacing the stock thermal pads under the cooler with higher end thermal paste/grease. Try replacing those pads and then try undervolting and should see a much cooler and faster laptop