Posts by nonya24

I bought this second hand from a guy saying the WiFi card will not work. It had some kind of corrupted version of XP installed on it and gave me many errors so I reformatted it and installed Linux. Linux is not recognizing many devices...

This is the second time this has happened to me, my laptop will be acting fine then I restart and when the Welcome screen shows up, the actual Welcome text disappears and the screen blinks black, and it will not stop. I can boot up in...

This is the exact issue I had, and I have a solution. Disable Hybrid Graphics Uninstall all drivers (All Nvidia and motherboard) Boot into safe mode and clean with Driver Sweeper Allow Windows to finish installing the generic...

Okay it is one of the GPU's that is the problem, because if I use the 9400M it will run fine. So one of the 280M's is the problem. I figured out what triggers it, videos... doesn't matter if it is Youtube or just a normal .WMV. I've ran...

Quote: Originally Posted by Silversaver oh well.... My M1710 video card dies out on me 6 months after the warranty expired. I still log on to my Dell account and got another 2 years extended warranty. Call Dell and got...

Just happend, this time I was on Youtube and I pressed the right button on the mouse, the screen instantly went black, I could still hear the audio.

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p Any ideal what your temps were when the black screen happened - try monitoring them. It maybe a NVIDIA driver issue as well., Another thing to try os disable SLI and see what...

Also, don't know if this changes anything. My BIOS version on both cards are the same (62.92.96.00.09) they used to be different. -Nonya

Hello, I have an M17x R1 (Specs in sig) which is 100% out of warranty. Yesterday I went to clean out the fans because it was running hot. Then I powered up the laptop and it would go to the welcome screen and flash black rapidly. So the...

Quote: Originally Posted by NWGuru Does it happen every single time? Did it just start happening? Which BIOS revision are you on? Can you provide screen shots of cpuz and gpuz when the problem is occurring? It...