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    R.i.p. 7970m ?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by flingin, Sep 12, 2013.

  1. flingin

    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    Browsing web, browsing NBR, all of a sudden screen glitch, artifacts everywhere, in panic i hold the PWR button and force shut down.

    Reboot, boot to bios OK, waited in bios couple of mins, reboot and boot to windows, logon screen appears and screen is just crazy flickering, laptop crashes, blue screen with atiumdag.exe something like this.... (Ati Drivers)

    Reboot, boot into safe mode with no success.

    Weird idea, reinstall windows, reinstalled in 5 mins, booted to windows OK, installed drivers OK

    Runed WEI ti get Windows Aero back, and just after i started it ( it started to test 3D performance) Holy Batman artifacts everywhere and crash.

    Booted to bios, reflashed card, flash OK, BUT some letters were swapped along the flash in the history - example DIR of the pen drive i was flashing from had a file named STOCK.ROM now, it was displayed as SUOCK.ROM, also Adapter name was not WIMBLEDON XT but WIM^ELDON XT.

    Did not took a screen shot sorry i was in a panic.

    Can boot to bios OK, but no way to windows now.

    Is it possible that this might be CPU or RAM ? or SSD ?

    I will start checking other elements later,

    .........but to me 7970m RIP
     
    flingin, Sep 12, 2013
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  2. vs3074

    vs3074 Notebook Evangelist

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    Sounds like 7970m is in its way to gpu heaven :(
     
    vs3074, Sep 12, 2013
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  3. flingin

    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    6 months old. very young to die from just web browsing YOLO
     
    flingin, Sep 12, 2013
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    Hmmm..its fried.
    Not good not good at all.

    Flingin is it a clevo or dell 7970m?
     
    TR2N, Sep 12, 2013
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