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    r3 black screen problem.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by omniskillz, Apr 22, 2013.

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    omniskillz Notebook Geek

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    So I was a dunce. I flashed my 580m to 675m. I have a12 unlocked bios. I had discrete as primary with integrated turned off.
    but i read to update drivers i needed to enable the integrated. so i did that in bios, restarted and the screen is just black, keyboard leds everything is on but the screen is black
    no beeps.

    can anyone help a brother out?
     
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    so i tried taking the cmos battery out and resetting it but same thing.

    i took the cmos battery and main battery out. held power button for 30 seconds. put them back in, still the same thing.
    how could i have bricked this?....
     
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    i've tried this method Alienware Mobiles: 5 Beeps after turning ON the system
    but holding the fn key does not restart it at all. i'm not sure if i'm clearing the cmos, i took the cmos battery out i would think the keyboard and system lighting would reset to default as well no? cause its staying the way i've had it.

    HELP :)
     
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    i'm going to have to wait til I get home. I will try to remove the gpu and reinstall it. I
     
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    Try reseatting the video card or booting it with a different one and see how that goes.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Apr 23, 2013
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