Posts by Johnmcl7

Wish I'd looked into this, my XPS has just run out of warranty and I'm concerned the graphics card is on its way out. I'd be interested to know the answer for future machines. John

Haha, it would be hilarious to see that loading screen on a modern laptop..back in the day the laptop I used it on only had about 16 shades of grey never mind colour. John

Sounds like an XPS 1 battery. John

Quote: Originally Posted by tentonine You can enable the NVIDIA monitor in the Dell drivers by adding a new DWORD value called NvCplThermalSettings to the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\NVIDIA...

I shouldn't have to, the machine isn't overclocked nor is it showing high temperatures - there's no way I'm taking an action which risks the warranty which I shouldn't have to do in the first place. Furthermore, it's not clock...

Quote: Originally Posted by maximus9314 1. The item is located in US but the sale is conducted on eBay.uk? 2. Ask buyers to contact an external e-mail address before bidding? 3. Please contact me before bidding ONLY...

Is there a termperature reading in the stock Dell Nvidia driver control panel? Had a look but couldn't see it, the highest I've seen is 64 degrees which even if it's underreading is still not too bad. I've put a support request in,...

Yeah, I think that's the best approach. How accurate is I9Kfangui? After a couple of hours gaming it claims the GPU temp is only 50 degrees which seems too low. John

Quote: Originally Posted by spazmochad Its summer here now so things are bound to be getting worse temp wise. Have you opened it up and cleaned the dust off the heatsinks like people suggest here every other day? I've...

Hey folks, my XPS 2 blacked out and stopped responding entirely while I was playing Zero Hour this evening. I shut down the machine by holding the power button and it booted back into Windows fine but the moment I launched Zero Hour the...