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    Black Screen on M17X R3 Windows 7 Home Premium.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by fam, Apr 24, 2011.

  1. fam

    fam Notebook Consultant

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    My system works perfectly and i have no issue with it..

    But when i leave my laptop idle for hours and try to resume the system, the screen goes black.. and i have to force shutdown and restart it.

    It happened to me every time when i leave my laptop on for a while.

    I switched off sleep mode, yet no solution for this problem.

    Any suggestion would be nice.

    Spec:
    M17X R3, i7 2720 , 8GB Ram, SSD 128GB Crucial, Nvidia 460.
     
    fam, Apr 24, 2011
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  2. reborn2003

    reborn2003 THE CHIEF!

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    Hi Fam,

    It sounds like a Nvidia GPU driver issue. Try uninstalling the current GPU driver and installing a different version. Perhaps a newer or slightly older version. You could even try reinstalling the same version just to check if it wasn't a corrupt driver.

    Cheers. :)
     
    reborn2003, Apr 24, 2011
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  3. mfractal

    mfractal T|I

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    Did u ever get it to work? I have the same problem..
     
    mfractal, May 13, 2011
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