Hey guys, have you ever encountered a horrible experience with the XPS 15 charger? My one is the L501X, and the charger provided was a pain in the ass.

Unlike normal chargers, I've to fiddle around with it until the components connect with one another. Worse, I've to pull the cabling up or else, it won't work. This is totally absurd when I'm outside.

I've contacted the Dell support and awaiting their response on the 1-to-1 exchange.

Bumblebee ??what you mean , because i jz wanted to boot into linux but nvidia optimus stop me from doing so

XSP and Alienware Direct Dealers here!!!

I got the best prices for direct form dell purchases.

Why the Optmus stop you?
No graphic output or ?
Can't just boot using the Intel HD ?

Did you try run this rig with ubuntu before??

No.

hey guys i discover some weird behavior today , i was installing a game call bioshock and i notice the cpu temperature increase from 5x degree celsius to about 7x - 8x degree celsius and the fan spin vigorously , is it a normal behavior??Why installing a game a simple task would generate so much heat , i try install sims 3 too and again it rise again and gone back to 5x degree celsius after finish installed ,anybody experience this??

Check the CPU usage ?

Anyway dunno why my cpu heat so high , i play bulletstorm just now my gpu (gt 540m) only reach 60++ degree celsius but my cpu could jump till 80 or 92 degree celsius

hi guys, anyways for me to display the correct graphic card on dxdiag on dell xps15

currently the dxdiag shows intel hd graphic, but my xps have nvdia 540m

i do have all the latest driver downloaded and my device manager shows no problem

add info : i recently just formatted my laptop

That's why check the CPU usage when installing...

Its normal, that's how nVidia Optimus, on dxdiag, it will show Intel HD.
You can run GPU-Z to check both Intel HD and nVidia..

well i disable the intel turbo boost and the heating problem disappear , before that i try to play bulletstorm and my nvidia gpu oni reach 5x celsius but cpu span up to 9x celsius , so i try disable turbo boost and highest the cpu get oni 7x degree celsius XD

I experienced the same problem! But that's not the worst. My charger starting giving off some small electrical noise (have to put your ear close to the charger in order to hear it). But that small noise only comes on occationally and suddenly a few days back my battery stopped working. Maybe it's a fault of the charger? I can still use the charger to power my laptop though. Wonder how long will their 1-to-1 exchange take.

Any one else have problems with the L501X charger? I got mine in December last year.


Edit: My battery still works but is warning me to consider replacing the battery. Is it really going dead? Only 7 months old.

This post has been edited by Alpha Wolf: Aug 4 2011, 05:02 AM

anyone can boot os x lion on xps?

where to buy 14" xps? couldn't find it in dell website... size wise, is it a big dfference with alienware mx14? anybody ever compare this 2? thx..

Dell XPS 14 is EOL-ed already, no more
If its still available, the size (apart from the thickness) should be exactly the same as the M14x

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Aug 5 2011, 09:48 AM

oo.. no wonder. thx!

Hi guys,

I've been using my XPS 15 for about a month now. Everything is quite ok except it is hard for me to open the memory card slot. I also feel the heat on left side compared to the right side. Is this normal?

One other thing is that I want to make a partition on my hdd using disk management so that it would leave only around 100GB in C. But it seems like I was not allowed to do so because C finally ended up to have 228 GB of capacity.

Any of guys can give some recommendation for me to fix this problem?

Use 3rd party partition software..

at first I almost call up to dell to ask why the memory card slot wont come out...lol
u hav to press till the end to open it.

u can try "easeus partition manager" quite easy to use

This post has been edited by 工藤新一: Aug 6 2011, 06:11 PM