Loud Monitor

is it normal that my monitor should emit a low or high pitched buzz? it changes pitch when i go from a dark to light display or vice versa.

kinda wondering if this may be part of my numerous hang ups - no bsods and mouse moves fine, but the laptop won't respond to any click or keyboard commands.

 

I have this problem too, It gets worse or louder the lower the resolution you go. I am also having to stick to using just one graphics card as sli is
un-playable. Too jerky! No matter what nvidia driver i use. This is my 6th alienware laptop (Glutten for punishment) not really, i love this laptop, even with its problems, i just hope Nvidia get them selves sorted out with their drivers.

 

that's why i've never really been a fan of sli. it's great for benchmarks and some games, but overall it's a waste of electricity.

i only got sli because the price was nice. i tried to get them to set me up with a single 280 but they wouldn't give in.

 

This is my 6th alienware laptop, and 3 of them have been sli including my current M17x. The previous 2 with sli (area-51 m17x and area 51 m9700) ran perfectly with sli, no stutter, not even micro stutter. Infact i get much better game play with the area 51 m17x!! on sli. I think one of the graphics cards is faulty because when disable sli in the control panel, the computer uses the left graphics card and this one runs smooth in single card mode. But when you have sli enabled but disable the sli for a particular game in the profiles menu, then the game uses the graphics card on the right hand side, and in single mode this card gives choppy frame rates continuously. So i think it is either a faulty card or sli cable. I am off shore just now, but when i get back to the U.K. i will be calling dell and ask them if they will send me out a replacement card and sli cable. I am only home for 3 weeks so sending my m17x to dell is not an option for me. I hope they will agree to this.