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    Stuttering Hardware sounds at boot screen

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Dilithium, Aug 15, 2011.

  1. Dilithium

    Dilithium Newbie

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    A few months ago, on June 18th, my M17x R3 arrived brand new. Just now, when I started up my laptop, I noticed that the screen was stuck at the boot screen showing the red alien head and the options for setup and boot options. I also noticed that while it was stuck on this screen, the the laptop's hardware made looping stuttering noises. After a while, about 15 seconds, the laptop resumed its activity and I was able to log in and use it normally. I tried restarting the laptop again, but the sound had disappeared.

    Note: When I turned on my laptop the first time, there was a Crysis disc inside its disc drive. Could have that been the problem? The next few times I tried it, I took the disc out and noticed that the sounds disappeared

    I was wondering if I should be worried about this problem

    I have an M17x R3 with a i7 2630qm and a nVidia Geforce GTX 460m.
     
  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Likely just that disc in the optical drive as Alienware uses slot loaded optical drives. Slot loaded drives are also noisier than tray loaded drives.
     
  3. Tweak155

    Tweak155 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes I agree. Sounds like the system was checking your CD to see if it was a boot disk.