Alien m7700 never ending

My m7700 laptop is having some issues, nothing new.
Need some help.
When I try to boot up the screen is blank...after a handful of times it will boot up...slow, when I gets to the windows screen
before loading the desktop it is choppy and slow. It eventually makes it to the desktop but it the laptop freezes. Sometimes it freezes by itself and sometimes it does it when I bump it. From time to time it will just to reboot it self or I just have to keep trying to reboot it. I thought maybe it was a short so I opened the case and everything looked fine. Then I thought maybe it was the cd drive so I unplugged it and when I booted up it did the same thing. a few times it made noise when I was on like electrical feedback, hard to explain but it was freaky and I had to shut off the laptop as fast as possible.
Any ideas??
Thanks

 

Just went through and pulled each memory stick trying to see if that was the problem...but it didnt help.
You guys used to be great on here with help and ideas... I guess its not the same bunch of people.

 

You mean its black blank or white blank. If its black blank it might be that your battery is giving up and that your screen doesnt get enough power. not to sure though but ive seen that before

 

what programs do you have installed in your computer. what are your system specs and what gpu drivers do you have installed.

Can you care to explain. since you joined mar 09 and only have 15 post.

 

The screen is black blank..but after a shutting down and powering back on a handful of times it will boot up...The times when it wont power on and the screen is black it usually wont make a noise, no fans turn on, not anything,it acts like its dead.
The programs I have installed is hardly anything, got some music,winamp,gta video game,vuze,avira,spybot,adaware,firefox,the rest is pretty much stock. I dont do to much on there as far as programs.
I have a clevo d900T,nvidia 6800fx card with the 156.55 series driver I think,4 gb ram,Bios version 1.00.0.23,
I changed old Pata hard drive to a Sata WD 320 GB HD. As far as all the drivers, I basically go to Alienware.com
and go to the drivers page. That stopped making most of my laptops drivers in 2004 or 05.
I just cant figure out what the hell is wrong,let me know if theres anything more that might help.
thanks

 

Hmm, prehaps its the GPU? I occasionally had it where an old 5600 failed to boot up but occasionally did strange.

 

Jesse, I just thought of something after the last time I emailed you.
I had some screen issues with my laptop. The problem arose as it looked like the graphics card was the problem. After analyzing the problem I found where the problem was coming from.
When you remove the keyboard, lift up the black plastic bezel piece which is between the keyboard and the Lid. Underneath on the left most side, you will see some connectors. One is 4-5 pin for the USB webcam, one is 11 pin for the screen inverter, and one is a 25 pin or so video connector.
On mine, some of the small wires in that larger 25 pin or so connector have come loose.
I used a knife and sharpened the tip on my pencap. I gently pushed all of the wires in place, hot glued the wires down when it was tested and working.

I hope that helps, if not shoot me an email back

K-TRON