I had the same issue as your. My dell XPS 1560 shutdowns randomly or when it was overheating. The solution which work for me and some others was to downgrade the thermal framework driver to the A04
I've had this issue as well today. My laptop just shuts down within 20-25 minutes of playing FIFA 17. It shows a notification of shutting down and that's it.
My laptop shut down for no reason, while I'm doing surf or taking note. When it happens, the computer doesn't reboot by itself, I have to power on manually. There's no bluescreen, the computer just stops. It even happen when I just restarted the system, so no heavy application is running.
I recently upgraded all my drivers, run tests which passed ok.
Recently, my 9560 has some strange behaviors :/ my keyboard lags most of the time (impossible to type anything) randomly for 10 or 15 minutes, my screen sometimes blinks, the computer in standbye mode restarts itself in the middle of the night, producing some bips, fan overload, etc...
I'm still on the factory version (1.1.x if I'm not wrong) since the last update I attempted last year (1.2.4 or 1.3.x) led me to an unstable system (BSOD, random shutdown). I never tried an update again. Should I ?
I read that downgrade is not possible anymore. It deters me from attempting a BIOS upgrade, if my system completely goes crazy after that and not possible to go back...
On the topic you mentioned, it seems most of the cases have had their drivers recently upgraded.
It's also my case, I performed a complete upgrade last week, as well as the Win10 1709 (falls creator) update achieved with success (it has always failed so far). The system unstability started there for me. Only thing is that I don't need to launch heavy processes or application to have the problem, it happens 5 minutes after Windows log me in.
I'm going to perform a check on my CPU temperatures
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Posted February 16th, 2018 15:00
The solution which work for me and some others was to downgrade the thermal framework driver to the A04
https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/Dell-XPS-15-9560-Shuts-down-randomly/td-p/5712086/page/2