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    Screen Blank?

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by kevmanw4301, Apr 10, 2011.

  1. kevmanw4301

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    So, I was uysing my M9750 yesterday. I closed the lid, left it on my couch, and left. Came back an hour later. Flipped open the lid, nothing came up. Rebooted, same. Let it boot into Windows. Heard all the sounds. Took out the video card, and popped in my old, broken 7950. It booted, but due to the bad card, crashed at the windows login screen. So, I popped back in the Quadro Fx 3700M, still messed up. Any ideas? The card is two weeks old, and was new. I think it should still work.
     
    kevmanw4301, Apr 10, 2011
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    It's either a dud card or a dud socket. Theres a procedure on the forum for placing a coin somewhere in the machine to fix the socket issue.
     
    simonmpoulton, Apr 13, 2011
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    Its the card. I put my old 7950 in and it worked. Sending the card back and getting a 3870.
     
    kevmanw4301, Apr 13, 2011
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