Posts by Lethalcleric

ok I got a bit more info for you, I reckon the 280 is faulty so I am going to return it so I have put back in the GTX260m and did a complete re-install using the onboard graphics installing all the drivers. Now when I boot using hybrid...

I only bought 1 GTX280 also the original GRX260 card is doing the same. Will try the external monitor.

The pixelated screen workers on both GPU's atm, shouldent taking them both out enable just the 9400? as even when its switched to the 9400 it becomes pixelated

I will give removing the CMOd battery a try although ive reset it a few times, Its a GTX280m from ebay and I dont think it said it was from an alienware but it is stated that it works fine. I believe its A02 but I will check tommorow and...

Have tried the cmos reset you suggested but not the RAM one as it was working fine before I swapped the GPU, If i put the 260 back in it lets me enable hybrid graphics but does not on the 280.

Hello I followed "The Moo's" Video guide to changing the GPU and when I re-inserted the new card (GTX260M -> GTX280M) then bios screen got really fuzzy and wouldent detect the GTX280 in the bios (a03 i believe or it might...

I have installed my new QX9300 thanks to The_Moo's Guide but when I play games such as mafia 2 or Hon or even Mw2 Ever sorta 5 mins I get either a CPU spike to 100% where I cant do anything for 5 secs and the screen freezes for those...

I see theres an update on the sticky for quad cores with 8gb of ram, I currently have 4gb of 1337mhz ram DDR3 and Would be looking for 8gb as my next upgrade but I noticed it says M17 and not m17x so I take it this is for the Area 51...

the 2.66ghz one

I am going to upgrade one of my M17x R1 laptops CPU from c2d 2.66 to a QX9300 and I was wondering if I needed a new CPU cooler for it or is the one that came with it adequite? Also how would I go about flashing the bios and updating it...