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    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Mechanized Menace, Jun 15, 2010.

  1. Mechanized Menace

    Mechanized Menace Lost in the MYST

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    do you have crossfirex enabled?
     
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    Single card system
     
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    What display driver ver?

    Happen with all versions?
     
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    this happened to me but it was only when i had sli enabled.. the problem was that one of the cards were dieing i guess you could say. most likely theres a problem with your card.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Any overclocking of the GPU?
     
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    all drivers Dell, 10.3-10.5 happens in all games MW2. L4D2, Far Cry 2, saints row 2. it goes up and down.... those desktop videos were with the game minimized only when gaming it does that, and no overclock
     
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    does it do that while watching bluerays or any hidef movies?
     
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    no it doesn't
     
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    well i guess it could be 1 of 3 reasons.. bad card, bad mobo or bad drivers.. most likely 1 of the first 2.
     
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    It stops when i put the brightness to half if i raise it more than half it does it again.
     
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    well the more information you give us the easier i guess it would be for us to figure out what the source of the problem is.XD
     
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    Ok
    Happens when I play games only (All games movies are not affected)
    Happens when brightness is higher than 50%
    Happens on all drivers.
    Same thing happens when Stress with Prime95 and Vantage at the same time as well

    Video card temps are
    Core-82'c/51'c(idle)
    mem-94'c/57'c(idle)
    shader-83'c/54'c(idle)
    CPU temps are
    core 1 58'c/40'c(idle)
    core 2 54'c/38'c(idle)
    core 3 57'c/39'c(idle)
    core 4 54'c/38'c(idle)

    150 watt adapter

    Single card system(not crossfire)
    Dual HDD 256 GB SSD and 250GB hdd
    what other info you need?
    Oh I ran throttle stop didn't see any throttling
     
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    Bump anyone I contacted alienware they said my card is probably bad and my power adapter. They are going to replace it tomorrow. Is that what is most likely wrong??
     
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    I would think the video card as well, or drivers.
     
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