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    R3 Dead 6990M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by chrisjohnharden, Feb 20, 2013.

  1. chrisjohnharden

    chrisjohnharden Notebook Geek

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    This morning at around 1am I was browsing online when suddenly my internal display started glitching, The display was doing a sort of wrap around effect, I moved the computer and the glitches got worse, so I switched into intel graphics only to have the glitches completely disappear. I tried switching back, but that caused a BSOD. I have tried booting with the 6990m forced, which causes a black screen when windows loads which appears to crash the computer as it never fully loads and becomes unresponsive. I will be calling dell later in the morning, but I am wondering if there is anything else I can try. I am currently on the unlocked A10 bios which is how I was forcing PEG.

    Also interestingly when I booted with the 6990m forced the fans ran full blast through the whole windows boot process and promptly stopped when the black screen occurred, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
     
    chrisjohnharden, Feb 20, 2013
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    Alienware-L_Porras, Feb 22, 2013
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