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    Brand new AW 18 with windows 10 driver issues

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Pandasplooge, Jun 7, 2016.

  1. Pandasplooge

    Pandasplooge Notebook Geek

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    So I have had this computer for a few months now. Have premavbios on my 970m's and everything works great plugged in, no driver crashes or anything. As soon as I unplug the laptop to try and run on battery it immidiately starts to crash. Doesn't matter what I am doing, can have just my dekstop up or have google chrome or something open and I get a "nvidia display driver has stopped working message." If i switch to integrated graphics on battery its fine, and its also fine on my dedicated cards plugged in but as soon as I try to run off battery with my 970's its literally unusable until I switch to my intel gpu. The fact that its completely fine plugged in has me confused, I literally haven't had a driver crash while plugged. Anyone else getting this with windows 10?
     
  2. SMOKE_SKULL

    SMOKE_SKULL Notebook Deity

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    Maybe the battery is pooched. Try another battery or dont unplug it.
     
  3. RaSeven

    RaSeven Notebook Guru

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    Are your Nvidia drivers updated to the latest version? Because I had same problem with an older Win10 compatible Nvidia drivers.