All is not well in the land of the E6400- and E6500-series lappytops. What looks to be hundreds of owners of these machines have been whining


copyrights:cite this source synonym medley v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group of massive fire issues, throttling themselves down by as much as 95% under what would seem to be normal overhead budget conditions. ever the devices get slightly warm the BIOS automatically starts dialing down the attainment until they fundamentally crawl to a halt, some credentials that even when cool they won't go over 50% of maximum clock. Users have been reporting this issue since early in the year and Dell has outwardly started censoring some posts on its forums, including a link to a PDF created by (now-banned) user Tinkerdude describing the problem in detail. It's entitled "Performance loss during normal operation in a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop due to processor and bus clock throttling", and if you think that's long wait until you see all 59 pages of anatomy (at the read link). As of now there's no conclusive fix on these terms by Dell, leaving many to call this Throttlegate, and we do love a good Stargate reference.



Update: Ibrahim e-mailed to let us know that these two series aren't the only ones being gimped. The Studio XPS 1645 is said to be having similar (but somewhat less drastic) issues as it should be to this thread, ostensively thanks to an inadequate AC adapter. In this case Dell seems to be shipping surrogate adapters to those who call up and complain.

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