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    [17 R3] Pink SOD on boot with battery?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by altecX, Apr 17, 2016.

  1. altecX

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    Whenever I do a cold boot while on battery I get a Pink SCreen of Death before rebooting and everythign working fine. It lists an Nvidia file as the issue.

    I have removed and reinstalled all the nvidia drivers and does a sfc scan and nothing seems to solve it.

    Does anyone have any ideas? It just started in the last few days.
     
    altecX, Apr 17, 2016
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    Have you recently installed the new BIOS?
    I just installed the new BIOS and ran into a pink BSOD but wasn't displaying an Nvidia issue. Mine was some buffer stack? Going to look into this now.
     
    mertymen2010, Apr 17, 2016
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    I think I actually have narrowed it down to the Nvidia HD audio driver. I just removed it and am trying it now.
     
    altecX, Apr 18, 2016
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    Let us know how that goes. I'm interested in seeing what is causing such a strange issue.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Apr 19, 2016
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    So far I have been fine since removing the Nvidia HD audio driver, it seems almost any version of it causes the issue for me but letting Windows install its own driver works just fine.
     
    altecX, Apr 19, 2016
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