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    BSoD Minidump m15x

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Token, Mar 10, 2010.

  1. Token

    Token Notebook Guru

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    Hello, I've got the old m15x and I can't stop it crashing. Dell couldn't care less. I've attached some minidump files, I'm hoping someone can look at them and find something interesting. It runs everything perfect and good temps, until it crashes, which it does randomly. Once a night, 10 times a night.

    I'm stuck on the 186 drivers because newer ones will not stick even with certificate overrides. I'm trying to find out if all my problems are simply a result of having old video drivers, I've tried swapping out a ram module, switching slots, so I doubt it's a ram problem. If I screw around with rivatuner or use older drivers I might get game client crashes instead of a BSoD.
     

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    kobe Notebook Virtuoso

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    Sounds like the card might be dying. What temps were you getting before the crashes started?
     
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  3. Token

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    I wasn't monitoring temps prior to the problems.
     
    Token, Mar 10, 2010
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