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    m17x RESTART FAILURE

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by NZGTownsend, Aug 28, 2009.

  1. NZGTownsend

    NZGTownsend Notebook Consultant

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    ANY time my m17x restarts, for any reason, The first time booting up it will fail.
    This has been reproduced under two entirely different hardware setups.
    I am using Windows 7.

    Please help me with this, while technically not resulting in performance problems, its extremely annoying and wastes my time.
     
    NZGTownsend, Aug 28, 2009
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  2. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    only thing i found was reflash the BIOS
     
    The_Moo™, Aug 28, 2009
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    swg1251 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm using Vista 64 with A01 BIOS and I have had the same thing happen, except for me it only fails to boot on about 25% of restarts

    Never happens just booting from power off though.....
     
    swg1251, Aug 28, 2009
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    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    aftr a flash and a fresh install never happened again
     
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  5. NZGTownsend

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    So just a bios reflash should do this fix?

    Would I have to reinstall OS?

    Can you provide a link to how to flash this bios? (And what I need to do it with?)
     
    NZGTownsend, Aug 29, 2009
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    Did this thing. Worked flawlessly. Fixed EVERYTHING.

    Sorry I bothered the forum. I tried to flash an old AMD once and it was an overcomplicated nightmare. Dells flash was practically automatic.

    Thanks a bunch.
     
    NZGTownsend, Aug 29, 2009
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