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    M17X R3 No Bootable Device

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by webjeff, Oct 24, 2011.

  1. webjeff

    webjeff Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,

    Sometimes when I wake up in the morning my laptop is on a black screen that reads something like "PXE ERROR", "No Bootable Device Found".

    Then I have to reboot it and it warns Windows wasn't shut down properly, but I just hit start windows normally and everything is fine.

    This happens maybe once a week, sometimes less, maybe once every two or three weeks. I saw it last night. It's annoying because sometimes I have stuff open and then I lose it.

    My last 2 XPS's never had any issues leaving them on 24/7 for months at a time!

    Any ideas? Is this an SSD issue? Anyone else see this or have had this happen to them?

    Thanks
    Jeff.
     
    webjeff, Oct 24, 2011
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