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Brand new Dell XPS 8930 freezing intermittenly with Windows 10

A friend of mine gave me a Dell XPS 8930 tower because it was freezing intermittently with no obvious cause; he didn't have time to figure it out himself and was past the point of being able to return ...
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How to disable CPU throttling on the laptop

I realize this has been asked before, every solution I've found doesn’t seem to work for me.. In a nutshell, following an activity where CPU is highly taxed, the speed drops from 2.8 GHz to 0.79 GHz. ...
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What hardware faults could cause random crashing on battery only in a Dell XPS 12 9Q23 laptop?

I am having the exact same fault as this chap: What can cause a sudden crash of a laptop on battery power? Summary of the problem: My laptop randomly crashes while on battery power (not AC). ...
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Very high CPU usage for Windows Audio service

I'm using a Dell XPS 13 (3960) laptop, with Windows 10 operating system. Recently, after I was hearing loud laptop fans noises even when no high resouce programs running, I decided to check, and ...
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Windows 10 updating from Windows 7 via Windows update fail after 84%

I have Dell XPS-L502X(Early 2011) with Windows 7 Home Premium-64 bit. I already reserved my Windows 10 copy and started an update to it that was 2,712.6 MB and failed after 84%, it took for that 17 ...
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