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    Alienware m17x startup problem

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by acubillo90, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. acubillo90

    acubillo90 Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have an Alienware m17x r1 that I bought like a year and a half ago. Suddenly it freeze yesterday and after that every time I reboot it shows an black screen showing the next:

    "NVIDIA boot agent 253.0543
    Copyright nvidia corporation
    Copyright Intel corporation
    PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable
    PXE-MOF: exiting NVIDIA boot agent.
    Operating system not found."

    Also if I try to install windows 7 the setup doesn't recognize my hard drive.
    So I not really sure if the problem is the hard drive (but I think is the most possible) or anything else (graphic card, memory, ...).

    If anyone can help me I will be very grateful.
     
    acubillo90, Jul 20, 2011
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    tyranus7 Notebook Evangelist

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    What if you disable Hybrid SLI in BIOS ?
     
    tyranus7, Jul 21, 2011
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  3. acubillo90

    acubillo90 Newbie

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    Yes, I already tried that before posting this issue and nothing, it didn't work. Why are you suggesting that? Do you think is a video failure?

    By the way, thanks for the reply :D
     
    acubillo90, Jul 22, 2011
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