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    Driver 14.12 on my 7970m

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by maivia87, Dec 22, 2014.

  1. maivia87

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    Hi,
    I have a video driver problem on my 7970M. The utility of AMD warned me of the new driver, I have update and seemed to have gone all right when during a game session the screen has suffered two flash blacks and then 'locked. In the restart I was stuck on the logo of windows 7 so I tried to recover but I did not get benefits because I got stuck at the same point. So I decided to reformat and during installation of the basic drivers of 2012 the screen goes black with a dash white flashes in the upper left and the 'crashes.
    I made 2 times the test ePSA and I have found no errors, but the problem persists. I tried to install the drivers directly from the Dell site but i have the same problem, crash on a black screen and flashing white indent on the top left and then hard repair because I can not get past the logo of windows 7
    I have a notebook for 2 years and I have never had these problems, most do not know which way to turn. Does anyone know how should I act?
    Thanks for any reply
     
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    maivia87, Dec 22, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    I think your GPU has died from the looks of it...
     
    TomJGX, Dec 22, 2014
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    maivia87 Newbie

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    Did you know where i can buy another VGA?
     
    maivia87, Dec 22, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Ebay is best place.. But don't buy this.. Get a NVIDIA card... You can reuse the heatsink but you need different screws+a NVIDIA X-bracket.. 680M/780M are good options.. 980M is confirmed working and will be equal to 2x780M :)
     
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    ok thanks, i'll take a look
     
    maivia87, Dec 22, 2014
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    That's a great suggestion. Any of those 2 cards should work without issues on your system. Let us know how the process goes!
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Dec 23, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Also, can i suggest the 970M? I will be upgrading soon to it and it's much better then the 780M.. Follow the thread here with my upgrade.. I got mine from Hidevolution and I'd suggest the same for you.. Buy it from their website and chose FedEx Priority shipping and you get it in 3 days.. Where are you located anyways? At least for UK, website price+shipping+taxes includes all customs charges...

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-17-m17x/767872-alienware-17x-r4-970m-upgrade.html
     
    TomJGX, Dec 24, 2014
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    thanks for the advice but I saw that it costs so much. I'm thinking of buying a desktop
     
    maivia87, Dec 24, 2014
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