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    Beta Drive for AMD/ATi Radeon Beware (of course I know you know this)

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by tldoney, Aug 14, 2010.

  1. tldoney

    tldoney Notebook Consultant

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    but some may not and will have to go through the I had to go through tonight. I installed the beta driver and got continuous BSODs. Finally tonight, I had enough and had to reinstall windows 7 again and OSD and Command Center and of course my alienware logon fix. So a warning, beware of dell drivers. I'm telling you, besides the old ATI driver and the OSD and Command center, I left everything windows generic and the laptop is running much better. Now I just have to install tons of other software which will take me another 2 days.
     
    tldoney, Aug 14, 2010
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    TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yup. Installing all that crap takes a long time. Once you get it just how you want it, create a backup image. It's much faster to just install that.
     
    TurbodTalon, Aug 14, 2010
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    JesseFK Notebook Enthusiast

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    My laptop did this once I got one BSOD. kept crashing even plugged in. I had to boot into safe mode and uninstall the drivers from Device manager. Least I didn't have to re-format doing this option.
     
    JesseFK, Aug 15, 2010
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    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    BatBoy, Aug 15, 2010
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