On the phone now with alienware support..

Been on hold for half an hour..
I just want to know why i cant switch to the expensive GTX260 card i paid for. Thats all. If i turn off the integrated card in the bios i get a light show as a display. (multicolor strobe. only way out is a hardboot.)

This is a gaming laptop, but i cant game on it due to the machines incapability to switch graphics...It sometimes use to work, but in the past 3 days, i have had ZERO luck trying to get it working. I have most recent bios and drivers. This was happening 2 days after i got the machine. Every time i press the two keys together or click "boost preformance" all i get is a black screen. I left it alone for 5 minutes to see if it would come up...no luck. So yeah. I have a paperweight. Hopefuly i can get a replacement or something.

Other than this issue, the computer is great for everything else, just not gaming! 9400 isnt very good for that! ha.....

 

on the internet reading a thread...

 

now commenting


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your GPU is broke tell them you need a new one

 

I guess they shipped me a computer with a bad video card. lol

 

I just restarted the pc, with the binaryGFX thing (fn+f7) and it i got to the logon screen. After 5 seconds of sitting there, the display went away. and if i press fn+f7 to get it back, it shows the 9400 still. GRR sooo frustrating.

 

go into bios disable intergrated and hybrid SLI


then try to boot if it doesn't boot then you GPU is bad simple as that

 

Then the screen turns into a rave party. lol
guess it is the gpu

 

Don't forget the do it all fix of doing the power drain.

 

The AW man did that with me and still no go.

Looks like a dell tech is going to come replace the card for me. =]