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    Alienware M11x R1 Graphics issue.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by jabinx92, Aug 8, 2011.

  1. jabinx92

    jabinx92 Notebook Enthusiast

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    These past 2 days I have been playing League of Legends and started to notice that my graphics have not been switched to max performance(notice in a great amount of lag, etc). I went onto the dell website to reinstall the video driver. Yet that is of no help. As of right now I can not fn+f6 to change the graphics modes, it only stays on the "save power" mode. When I go into "device manager" in control panel it shows that I only have the "Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family." I am missing the Geforce 335 driver. Yet I already installed the video drivers in the dell website. Can somebody please help me out?
     
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    BuToNz Notebook Geek

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    I had this same problem. Try putting the graphics mode to discrete in the BIOS, boot back into Windows and make sure the driver installs ok for the 335. Then change the mode back to Switchable in the BIOS and boot back into Windows. Should then work.
     
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    Run the install as admin
     
    GNandGS, Aug 8, 2011
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    jabinx92 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here is what I did. Rather than installing the recommended setting i installed the custom setting. It allowed me to check this box that had something to do with, delete and reinstall current graphics drivers. did that and restarted and everything was fine
     
    jabinx92, Aug 8, 2011
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