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    alienware m17 r3 white screen

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by gsx, Sep 19, 2015.

  1. gsx

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    Hi all,
    I have a big problem. I decided to do clean windows install and then things gone wrong. I tried to install windows 10 and my laptop just boots into white screen and after some time I can hear a beep. Tried to install my old OS windows 7 have same issue.

    I had to swap my old graphics card I had radeon 6990m. Now I have geforce 780m everything was working fine until I have decided to do clean install. When I upgraded from Windows 10 from windows 7 everything was ok. But I have decided to do clean install. Now I cant even install my old operating system. I tried to remove my video card and use integrated and that works fine but when I put my primary card Geforce 780m I boot into white screen with a beep.

    Can someone help me please?
     
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    gsx, Sep 19, 2015
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    UPDATE:

    Thats not only white screen but black and sometimes random colour and it seems like its stuck in restart loop. I have checked my bios it doesnt have an option to disable safe boot and its a newest unlocked a12 bios from tech.
     
    gsx, Sep 20, 2015
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    Try a fresh install of ws 8.1, ws10 broke many screen on m17 r4.... Alienware less then 2013 shouldnt be upgrade to ws 10, many issues with death screen.
     
    DARCODER, Sep 27, 2015
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    I have sorted this problem. I had to disable integrated sound card and install drivers then reenable and now it works finally :)
     
    gsx, Sep 28, 2015
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