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    Final straw with the r1!!!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Luccabertone, Dec 11, 2010.

  1. Luccabertone

    Luccabertone Notebook Consultant

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    Firstly apologies for not replying to the guys who answered a previous thread about bsod while viewing videos online, i've been out of the country and just got back although this thread is in relation to that.

    As above really with my r1 i have always had bsods when viewing videos(nothing xrated lol) online such as youtube etc, I get loud sound hang then graphical corruption and usually have to hard boot if it doesn't do it on it's own. This happens about once daily.

    The system starts back up fine, but after this has happend 20ish times at a random i shut the r1 down as normal and next time i start it up i get a black screen on the windows login screen with only the mouse cursor viewable although i hear it login if i type my password in. It does work in safe mode or when not in hybrid. The only way to solve this i have found is reinstalling windows and i can't keep doing it, i have alot of work related data on my laptop and i dont have the time to keep backing it up etc.

    The system has been back to dell 3 times over this issue the last time they replaced the motherboard 3 or 4 times the 3d card twice, the processor and the gpu bridge, on it's return it seemed to be stable for about a month or so then the issue returned.

    I have tried most of the drivers out there old, new and modded but this issue persists i'm currently using 260.99.

    Plz help some before i explode at dell about this, i am not getting what i paid for
     
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    alienwolf Notebook Deity

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