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    M17x R2 bluescreens when loading windows after teardown

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by jackjm, Jul 10, 2013.

  1. jackjm

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    Hi,

    I recently took apart my M17x R1 in order to clean and re-paste it. After I put it back together, whenever I boot from the hard drive, windows 7 will start to load, then a BSOD will appear for a second before the computer reboots. I've tried repairing windows by using the resource CD, but that hasn't made any progress. I was using a RAID 1 setup before this all happened.

    Has anyone run into this before? I'm at the point where I think I'm just going to format and reinstall everything, but if possible I'd like to be able to recover a few files (nothing critical that I'm freaking out about).

    Thanks
     
    jackjm, Jul 10, 2013
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    TR2N Notebook Deity

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    Looks like hardware fault. Focus closely on what parts were removed and then test.
    Good luck.
     
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    I can't see the stop error code because it literally blue screens for half a second before rebooting, just a flash of blue. I made some "progress" (although not forward), and it's looking more and more like a hard drive failure. Running chkdsk in the command prompt yielded tons of index errors that needed to be rewritten, and it kept getting interrupted. I'm just going to try to wipe everything tonight I think.
     
    jackjm, Jul 11, 2013
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