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    Dimmed Screen and slow system

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Revy106, Apr 10, 2012.

  1. Revy106

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    Hey there everyone fairly new here but I am always looking around for help on this forum.

    I will cut right to the chase, I have a Mx17 r3 with

    6990m
    i7-2670
    8 Gb Ram
    500 HDD
    Killer network card

    and the rest is all standard alienware mx17 stuff

    Now what has happened is I thought ok system is getting fairly slow I am going to rebuild. So I rebuilt the system but the 12.3 drivers were being such a pain in the to install I decided to use the a08 Unlocked bios after a few bricks and a few problems and removing the card to reset the bios I disabled the IGP and reinstalled windows 7 AGAIN for a nice fresh install...now all is ok it has all installed BUT I am having this 2 second stutter in games and on desktop the sound carries for a second and the graphics still move very slowly then catch up it feels like I am running on a system that is about 8 years old and this laptop is only 2 months old....

    ALSO my screen is permanently dimmed since disabling IGP Now I have noticed a few people talking about this on the forums in other threads but found no clear reason as to why this happens

    anyway If anyone can help that would be great i will upload my dxdiag to for extra info.
     

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    Quick Update I just did a quick furmark and ever 3 seconds it goes from 50fps straight down to 1fps for 2 seconds then back up again....and it repeats over and over again
     
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    No one has any idea of this problem......?
     
    Revy106, Apr 11, 2012
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    is your power settings turned down? my screen dimms alot if im not on high performance?
     
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    I gave up with disabling the IGP it would just be dimmed non stop so I reverted back to normal but now I just have the problem of stuttering...its horrible :(
     
    Revy106, Apr 12, 2012
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