7970 Crazy Enduro Issues - Help / Opinions Needed!

Hi,
I took delivery of my new m17x R4 yesterday - manufacturer refurbishment so hopefully I am getting a lot more 'bang for buck'.

useful specs info:
3610 Processor
256gb SSD
750gb HD
7970m Gfx Card
16gb Ram


I have spent the evening sorting out the usual stuff and have read elsewhere on this forum that it makes sense to disable GFX chipset switching by using fn-F7 which I did.

Directly after reboot the bios screen, windows load screen and windows itself is all displayed as pure green screen (with yellow / white writing). I have downloaded the up to date drivers from Dell website and tried that but has made no difference (I have tried a number of reboots, fn-f7 etc post driver install to see if I can get it sorted).

If I turn gfx switching back on everything is ok. I have booted up World of Warcraft, put everything on ultra and it played smooth which would suggest the 7970m is kicking in (ie I guess it isn't broken / poorly installed). So I am now at a loss as to why its green when the intel card is disabled.

Any clever ideas? Only other option I can think is to clear it all down and go for a clean re-install which I am loathe to do unless necessary. I'd appreciate any advice / things to try to sort it out....

Thanks in advance

 

I have booted up World of Warcraft, put everything on ultra and it played smooth which would suggest the 7970m is kicking in (ie I guess it isn't broken / poorly installed).

Hmmm just an update - went back into wow and was getting just 25fps - checked online and it seems that is what I should expect from the HD4000.

Given the above it does look and sound to me that the 7970 is not installed properly. I have removed and updated drivers and still no improvement, unless you have any cunning ideas I might have to go into battle with the reseller :/

 

You need to find the clean windows install thread on this forum and first follow the dell/amd driver install procedures. This is highlighted in red at the bottom of the OP. Then try the whole clean install from that thread If the driver procedures don't work to be sure it's more than just the software.
Follow this link
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...lienware-m17x-r3-r4-owners-lounge-thread.html