is the m14x battery prob is normal or i should call dell?

it work best when in plug but when gamming on battery some times it will last till 20% which is my charging % and the alien head will start blinking to warn me that the battery is going to die..... and i will plug in and it is normal....

and when it is not normal is where the battery just Poof! laptop dead.... cant start up and u have to plug in the cable to start up the system and if u did not do so? the laptop will not start up unless u plug in.....

so, is this normal for M14x?
or is there a way to prevent it happening again?
btw iam using BALANCED settings when on battery and when in plug in mode, iam using High Performance.

u need to check your setting in alien fusion

Whoa this happened once with my M14X too.

normal, happens to everyone including me
when gaming, the battery cannot really support 45w of gpu. the fps on my games drop as well if i unplug the charger.

i think the best way to do is do not play game during battery phase? but come on guys this is a gamming laptop and it should work as it was.... =.=
btw
did u guys try put it in power saver mode to play? LOL

FRP sure will suffer like mad xD

I think Alienware is not a battery gaming laptop at all. With all those high end processors and GPUs you can expect it to work flawless on battery. I think battery if just for stand by.

My problem is not the gaming on battery part.

The part where sudden shutdown even when battery full and cant be revived unless use cable.

then you need to call dell tech support.

m17x r4 here. is it normal my cpu temp shoot up to 85 celcius when gaming? and my gpu temp is 70 celcius

yes i face that too but may i ask your sudden shutdown is during gamming or normal use? Ie. not for gamming?

when i tend to play long hours using battery, it will happen. but if i take a break in between times and use a lower settings, it will out shut down by its own ( tested today) and what Michaelbyz23 mention is



and i did some researched into this issue and u can find that this is a common thing

depends on where u play? Ie. air-cond room which is 24 Celsius VS in-door which is around 28 Celsius maby? VS out-door which is normal day light also 32 Celsius?

iam running M14x at max settings (when gamming)
air-cond room CPU 60~70 GPU 60+
in-door CPU 60~70++ (80) <-- sometimes GPU 70~75
out-door 60~80++ (90) <-- very rare but i hit this b4 GPU 75++

so, which area u at now?

that is normal for gaming laptop, i do own sager and it need to run with charger to run game smoothly, but i didnt having issue with the battery/ shutdown

aircond room. btw my cpu is 3840qm and gpu 680m. so izzit normal?

well , it is normal. 3840 and 680m tend to run hotter ^^
do u own a 120Hz LCD?

mothership had changed another batch of people d. haha

if the laptop used to POOF!!!!. then u must pick up your call in second and call 1300881306

bro i am still here upgraded to m14x r2 and x51 xD

haha. wanna sell of My M18x, anyone interested? come with GTX680M SLi

X51 nice right? I plan to get that 1 ^^

This post has been edited by putochip123: Feb 19 2013, 11:25 PM

it's me la.... zzzz

how much?