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XPS poor performance.
My Inspiron XPS (3.4 GHZ, 2 GB Ram) is running very slowly. I have ran QuickTechPro's Benchmark test on the CPU and am getting 64K Dhrystones & 50K Whetstones. According to it's charts, it's running about par for a Pentium 1 150mhz. I ran something called CPUMark2 on it, it ground to a halt on the floating point test (I gave up after a couple of hours with no results). My other laptop (Dell Pentium M 1.6ghz) ran circles around it on all the tests. I was reencoding some MPEG2 files, once again the 1.6GHZ ran circles around the 3.4GHZ, after 8 hours, I had to stop it and beat my head against the wall. I've reinstalled windows and ran tests outside of windows. Has anyone else seen this?
- You need to try a few things,
Number one beeing to download a new bios, since they have fan-controlling on them.
Number two is to download and install the speed-step for your CPU.
Number three is press [FN]+Z to reset the fan controllers so that they function.
And you cant check the heat on the dell computers, sure a 3:d part software might show you a number, but it dont show the correct one. only way is to take a temperature meter and stick it to the CPU.
Try running your computer as hot as possible, if it shutsdown and you cant start it for 15-30 minutes, you have had your first thermal shutdown, and then you should call tech support, they will probably get you a new fan+heatsink
//dexel
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Posted August 24th, 2005 17:00
I suggest that you buy a can of compressed air and liberally blow out your vents in order to remove as much accumulated dust and debris from your CPU heatsink.
Additionally, I suggest you also doublecheck that your hard drive has slipped into PIO mode.