The Heat is On
I am suffering with the overheating issues of my new DELL Latitude E6400 (some Inspiron models included too). I love this machine, but this problem is getting me crazy. At least I am not the only one with the issue, and hopefully DELL will release a BIOS soon update to handle it, which looks more like a hardware design flaw. Many people with different OSs are experiencing it (XP, Vista, 7, Linux, you name it).
Some other references:
http://pchardwareblips.dailyradar.com/story/dell-facing-massive-e6400-and-e6500-overheating-and/
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?s=b57bed765e7e7630314c81c21f70b573&t=348221&page=2
This is really embarrassing for DELL and a kick in the nuts for their loyal customers.
One guy wrote an extensive study to reproduce and analyze the cause of the slowdown, then he published it in the DELL forums and was censored by the DELL guys!!
During my research I found this amazing tool to analyze and identify the cause of slow response in your machine. If you do it right you could pinpoint the misbehave driver, disable it or just get an update. The name of this tool is DPC Latency Checker . Check it out.
Off topic: finally after many weeks I got my Windows Azure/SQL Azure invitations. Look like the H Initiative is going to have a new home in the clouds..
