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    BSOD if on battery

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SpideRMaN-17, Nov 20, 2010.

  1. SpideRMaN-17

    SpideRMaN-17 Notebook Consultant

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    Recently (on a fresh installation of Win 7) I get BSOD if I power on laptop on battery, it hangs after 10 seconds of a full Win 7 boot

    error is not recoverable (even if I plug PSU back) and I have to reinstall windows

    If I reinstall windows and use laptop on PSU then it works fine no errors at all

    any hint is very welcome

    so far I replace the ram to stock 4GB 2x2GB and problem persists
     
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    SpideRMaN-17 Notebook Consultant

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    Solved

    it was a different (old) VBIOS in slave 5870 . .

    the thing is that al soft I used, HWINFO, Astra, Everest (to mention some) all showed that bios is same as primary vga

    the only exception was CCC . . where it showed that bios was different, so I upgraded bios and all is up and running now !!

    ADVICE:
    Always use Catalyst Control Center for bios info of the 5870's ;)
     
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    GPU-Z will also tell you your vbios version for both cards.
     
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    Yes, correct, but for a reason which I am still looking into, none showed the truth !! except CCC
     
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    I noticed the same thing about the cards showing the same everywhere except in CCC. My cards were just replaced and I had a couple blue screens when we first booted it up. When I checked the vbios as you did I thought they were the same. Later in CCC I found out that they were different. Very odd indeed.
     
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