Dell Precision M2400 Overheat Problems

All is not well in the land of the Precision M2400 Dell Precision M2400 DVD Drive - and Dell Precision M4400 (Dell M4400 DVD Drive)  Dell Precision M4500 (Dell M4500 DVD Drive) laptops. What looks to be hundreds of owners of these machines have been complaining of massive performance issues, throttling themselves down by as much as 95% under what would seem to be normal operating conditions. Whenever the devices get slightly warm the BIOS automatically starts dialing down the performance until they basically crawl to a halt, some indicating that even when cool they won't go over 50% of maximum clock.   

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Dell has released a raft of BIOS updates which should solve the underperformance/overthrottling issues that some users have been experiencing. The BIOS updates are for E4200/E4300/E5400/E5500/E6400 (including ATG and XFR models)/E6500/ Latitude and Precision M2400/M4400/M6400 notebooks and incorporate changed algorithms for thermal tables to accommodate a broader usage models. This should alleviate the issues that a small number of users were experiencing. Some owners of Dell notebooks using the above processors were experiencing severe underperformance and overthrottling, so much so that performance was being cut to a fraction of what it should be even when the systems were running at normal temperatures. 

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