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    M17x Power Supply Problem

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by balthazar2k4, Mar 3, 2011.

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    I have had my M17x-R2 for about 2 weeks or so now and all has been fine up until yesterday. Suddenly I went to turn it on and as soon as the machine got into Windows it shut-off. I chalked it up to some random incident restarted the machine and all was well. Last night, I was playing Crysis 2 and it did it again. Now normally I would figure it was a heat problem, but I checked the log file and the processor was running in the mid-70s and the GPUs were in the mid-80s. I have pushed them longer and harder before without this happening. What was interesting is that when I went to turn it back on, it wouldn't come on. I pulled the power from the back and saw the blue light was off on the power supply. So I unplugged and replugged and it came back on again (both the power supply and computer). Now I have recently started using some pretty healthy TDP values in Throttlestop and my machine runs full-tilt 3.4ghz now. I have also recently flashed my GPUs to 800/1100. Has anyone else experienced this? Do I have a more serious problem?
     
    balthazar2k4, Mar 3, 2011
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