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    Technical Problems...NEED HELP!

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Ctoc93, Nov 8, 2011.

  1. Ctoc93

    Ctoc93 Newbie

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    G'day
    So the other day I installed the latest nvidia driver for my Alienware m11x just prior to the release of bf3 and mw3, after installing this driver my computer blue screened. Then again blue screened when trying to open a mp4 file. Finally I retried it today and once logge on for about 2 minutes the computer restarted itself before the screen came back on with the fuzzy horizontal static like lines across it. I performed unexpected manual shutdown, and then turned it back on again, finally once it was rebooted into safe mode them
    I selected restart, it shut itself down for a few seconds before rebooting with nothing on the screen and the laptop was just beeping.
    What has happened?
    What should I do?

    PLEASE HELP
     
    Ctoc93, Nov 8, 2011
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  2. ejohnson

    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    How many beeps?
     
    ejohnson, Nov 8, 2011
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  3. negyuh

    negyuh Notebook Consultant

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    My first idea of possible source of the problem would be: memory problems on your nvidia graphics board. you should try to do some diagnostics on the card (if possible)
     
    negyuh, Nov 8, 2011
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  4. bouddha

    bouddha Notebook Geek

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    what version of the m11x do you own?
    do you have any kind of mod on your system?
    did you overclock?
     
    bouddha, Nov 8, 2011
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  5. un4tural

    un4tural Notebook Evangelist

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    with the amount of information you given it could be anything...

    Which M11x you got
    Record the beebs, which would honestly be best.
    which BIOS version?

    just give all the info you can... plus did you try restoring default settings on BIOS?
     
    un4tural, Nov 8, 2011
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