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    Think This Will Catch House On Fire?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SpecialEffect, Mar 23, 2011.

  1. SpecialEffect

    SpecialEffect Notebook Guru

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    Heh im sure it's lieing because i think my hand's would of melted by now, and probably my house... Oh and i wouldnt be typing right now!

    I uninstalled dell drivers, and did a driver sweeper and erased all ati stuff...

    I did ALOT of searches and cant find the thread that came with steps on what to do to install the AMD drivers

    Basically doing this because crysis 2 is doing horrible with stock dell drivers :/ so wanting to use amd ati drivers!
     
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  2. its.kvn

    its.kvn Notebook Consultant

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    o_O wow...Never reached that temperature before lol..

    btw, the temperature reading from GPU-z on my r3 is also questionable..on gpuz version 0.5.1 i have about 59-60C reading..Seconds later, I open the gpuz version 0.5.2 and I have about 65-68C reading.. o_O
     
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  3. SpecialEffect

    SpecialEffect Notebook Guru

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    I uninstalled dell video drivers, used driver sweeper to erase all and anything ati related.

    Now, when i install the Catalyst Control Center 63.6 MB 11.2 2/15/2011

    Everything seems okay, but in device manager it still shows VGA graphics adapter, and CCC doesnt open... any idea why?
     
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  4. kunekaden

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    ima firin ma lazer
     
    kunekaden, Mar 23, 2011
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  5. bpmcgee

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    32767 is -1 displayed as an unsigned int. Apparently they assumed (rightly) that the GPU temperature would never be below 30F

    No help on the drivers, but don't worry about melting holes in the earths crust with your GPU :)

    B
     
    bpmcgee, Mar 23, 2011
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    I happens to me before,

    What I did was , Uninstall CCC , Restart with safe mode.
    Clean drivers with driver sweeper. Restart.

    Then install official m17x-R2 Driver.

    Drivers & Downloads

    Then only Install the CCC 11.2 again.
     
    iPhantomhives, Mar 23, 2011
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  7. Cmagamez

    Cmagamez Notebook Evangelist

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    LOL, you're on fire :p
    Happens to me once, for the correct drivers installation, uninstall the current one with CCleaner, clean the system and clean the registry, go to device admin and screen adapters or monitor adapter, right click and uninstall then, go to ; Restart in safe mode, run driver sweeper, close and re-run driver sweeper (until find nothing), run CCleaner (Cleand system and registry), restart in normal mode, Run driver sweeper and CCleaner and install (Yeah, lots, but it's safe)
     
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  8. Photolysis

    Photolysis Notebook Consultant

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    That's some impressive temps right there.

    You know your graphics cards are powerful when they're hotter than the sun!
     
    Photolysis, Mar 23, 2011
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