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Comment Glad that this is getting more press (Score 1) 314

by one4spl on Monday November 30, 2009 @08:08PM (#30277418) Attached to: Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU?

My E6500 suffers from this issue exactly as described... unfortunately I bought a refurbished machine that no longer has any warranty so i have no leverage with Dell to get it fixed. The machine is basically unusable in the dock in a room with an ambient temperature over 25deg C. I've tried all the suggested fixes to no avail. Running a hacked up CPU tool isn't something I'm particularly keen on. I see no reason for Dell not to re-design the BIOS so that it runs the machine much, much hotter before it throttles, particularly when docked.

Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? 314

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 30, 2009 @05:04PM from the making-the-pr-department-work-for-their-paycheck dept.

jtavares2 writes "In what is being dubbed Throttlegate, scores of users on many message boards have been complaining about nexplicably aggressive throttling policies on their Dell Latitude E6500 and E6400 laptops which cause their CPUs to be throttled to less than 5% of their theoretical maximums even while at room temperatures. In many cases, the issue can be triggered just by playing a video or performing some other trivial, but CPU intensive, task. After being banned [PDF] from the Dell Forums for revealing 'non-public information,' one user went so far as to write and publish a 59-page report [PDF] explaining and diagnosing the throttling problem in incredible detail. Dell seems to be silent on the issue, but many users are hoping for a formal recall."

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