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    Random Crashes Alienware R1 GTX280M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by benmutlu, Sep 18, 2010.

  1. benmutlu

    benmutlu Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have Alienware m17x R1 with GTX 280m SLI cards.

    When I started to play games its crashes randomly. I thought its happening because of the overheating but its not.

    I tested my system with Furmark, and I tested it about 10 min going to 72 C and giving no problem.

    Anyone having same problem and who solved problem please reply me.
    Please help me to solve this problem otherwise im going to throw laptop out of window.


    By the way my system properties ;
    Driver : 258.96
    OS : Windows 7 64bit
     
    benmutlu, Sep 18, 2010
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  2. TRICH911

    TRICH911 Notebook Consultant

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    Have you tried using the Nvidia control panel and setting the game to use a single GPU instead of SLI? With my R1 280 sli, some games locked the system when using SLI. You have to get the SLI updates as well.
     
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  3. benmutlu

    benmutlu Newbie

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    Yes i tried. If you are using R1 gtx280m can you give information about your driver version, bios version, and operating system.
     
    benmutlu, Sep 18, 2010
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  4. Belien

    Belien Notebook Geek

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    The 25x GeForce driver series cause black screen freezes on some of our systems (see threads in main Alienware discussion). In my case, it happened most of the times while browsing (disabled hardware acceleration in latest Flash version). I installed the lastest 260.63 beta from Nvidia and they seem to be stable (although not perfect yet). There's one person mentioning too high temps with his 280m sli system, so you might want to read first before you take the jump.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/517902-nvidia-geforce-260-63-verde-beta-discuss-here.html
     
    Belien, Sep 18, 2010
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