The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    m7700 Black Screen Of Death Info Needed

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by H-street, May 23, 2011.

  1. H-street

    H-street Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    54
    Messages:
    71
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Does anyone have the info on the infamous M7700 black screen of death?

    I currently have an m7700 laptop and it is exhibiting this now, it has all the classic symptoms

    Lights come on
    Hdd and cd spin up
    fans will eventually come on when the unit warms up.
    Numlock/Capslock don't function
    No display to the LCD or the External DVI (not even a shimmer)


    Every 20th or so turnon/turn off the unit will come on for a while and function normal

    Everything is seated correctly, everything has been tested out (memory/video card etc..)

    I read that it is a motherboard issue but i haven't seen any specifics on what is actually failing on the motherboard - some speculate a capacitor etc. but zero info (suprised considering i have read post after post describing this problem).



    Does anyone have any info on this?
     
    H-street, May 23, 2011
    #1