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    M17x R1 crashes and display driver stops working

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Morgotth, Apr 20, 2011.

  1. Morgotth

    Morgotth Notebook Evangelist

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    My specs are: qx9300, 4 gigs 1333mhz ram, 250gig 7200 rpm
    HDD, dual 280m GTX

    I have the A07 bios, 267.76 nvidia drivers, and I get weird crashes where my HDD lights go solid and everything freezes and I have to do a hard restart unless right as it's happening I spam ctrl alt delete although that doesn't always work.

    Other times my screen flickers and then it goes back to normal and says my display driver has stopped working and has recovered, subsequently flickering a short time later and not recovering, forcing a hard restart. It does not happen all the time but it is extremely annoying. Any suggestions as I have read about these issues but the solutions didn't work for me or maybe I did it wrong. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
     
    Morgotth, Apr 20, 2011
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  2. unhip_crayon

    unhip_crayon Notebook Consultant

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    I've got the same issue. I think its the Nvidia driver....
     
    unhip_crayon, Apr 20, 2011
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  3. katalin_2003

    katalin_2003 NBR Spectre Super Moderator

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    Morgotth, did you disable PCIe Gen2 in BIOS under Graphic options?
    If not try that first.
    If you did already and still getting those crashes then did you properly clean your video drivers before you upgraded to a newer version?
     
    katalin_2003, Apr 20, 2011
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