Solution S-XPS 1645/1647 Throttling Issues

[ChrisNee1988]

Contact Tech Support and request for 130 Watt Adapter and update to the latest BIOS

[Turbe]

Great News

5. If you have an order in production, please PM me the order number

but I got an email today that says we will be sending them out for 1647 as well.

Does #5 apply now to 1647's in production or do we wait as posted

so let me take care of the 1645 folks first, please.

=======> I'll try to keep this post updated with the latest 1647 News <=======

2/8/2010

Originally Posted by Dell-Bill_B

OK. I knew something was too good to be true. Just got an email from the engineer. He says that 1647 will not require a 130 Watt adapter. You will be getting a new BIOS shortly after Chinese New Year, and testing so far shows it eliminates throttling. If you find out differently at that time, or if we need to revisit the 130 Watt question on 1647, just let us know after you install A04.

3/2/2010
1647 (with Dual Cores), BIOS A04 and the 130w adapter does not throttle , even with the RGBLED @ Full Brightness.

More Info:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...&postcount=373

http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...&postcount=379

http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...&postcount=383

[fmac]

Great news, I am glad that finally Dell is doing this the right way!
Thank you again Bill. You will be hearing from me soon, once the 1647 bios update is released..

[Usuyami]

I posted the same info in the other thread but this won't be buried as quickly so I'll post it here as well.

Chinese New Year is February 14th this year, on the same day as Valentine's Day. I can't imagine Dell releasing the BIOS on a Saturday or a Sunday so I guess they are aiming to release it on or before this Friday, February 12th.

[zyc_hot]

This is a great news...I can't wait for the BIOS update for 1647..... Thanks Bill!!!

[Dell-Bill_B]

OK. I knew something was too good to be true. Just got an email from the engineer. He says that 1647 will not require a 130 Watt adapter. You will be getting a new BIOS shortly after Chinese New Year, and testing so far shows it eliminates throttling. If you find out differently at that time, or if we need to revisit the 130 Watt question on 1647, just let us know after you install A04.

Everything else is going according to plan, except my wife says I have to take a break and play with my son. I'll be back after he goes to bed.

[Apocal1pse]

Very, very very great news.

I hope this fixes everything, I allready liked the system when not gaming, but I would like to see it's full potential in CPU/GPU intense applications.

[fmac]

Originally Posted by Dell-Bill_B

OK. I knew something was too good to be true. Just got an email from the engineer. He says that 1647 will not require a 130 Watt adapter. You will be getting a new BIOS shortly after Chinese New Year, and testing so far shows it eliminates throttling. If you find out differently at that time, or if we need to revisit the 130 Watt question on 1647, just let us know after you install A04.

Everything else is going according to plan, except my wife says I have to take a break and play with my son. I'll be back after he goes to bed.

If its true that the 1647 doesnt need a 90 watt adapter then thats great, it saves us all some trouble. But if not, well.. that would be awful and an ignorant way for Dell to handle this..

Go play with your son, you've done enough!

[D2K9]

Appreciate all your help Bill.

Thank you

[06voy]

I really hope this problem is fixed this week. That would be great. Thanks Bill for helping with getting this issue fixed.