Well, my beleaguered m7700 finally dumped on me. After numerous overheating problems (that I thought I had fixed), it finally decided to shut off while I was in the middle of playing Spore. Now it won't even turn on. At first, it turned on, but the screen was black. The optical drive kept clicking, and the HDD light flashed at regular intervals.
Now the damn thing won't even turn on. It will look like it's powering up and then shut off after not even half a second. The battery and A/C indicators go off (even when it is plugged in). When I unplug and replug, the lights will come back on, but when I try to turn it on, it will shut off almost immediately (turning off the indicator lights). When I plug it in, I can hear a faint almost squeaky clicking sound.
From what I have read, it looks like the motherboard might be dead. Of course, I'm having a hard time finding a D900T motherboard. I am wondering what my options are. This is really my only gaming machine. I have other boxen at home, but they are servers.
I've really had it with Alienware and their crap. I've never seen a more poorly designed notebook. Everywhere I've looked I've seen people who've had it without any problems for about two years, and then it dies. Thanks Alienware! You run a great scam!
Sorry if I sound bitter, but... I am haha. Anyway, I am wondering if you people have any pointers!
Thanks.
Now the damn thing won't even turn on. It will look like it's powering up and then shut off after not even half a second. The battery and A/C indicators go off (even when it is plugged in). When I unplug and replug, the lights will come back on, but when I try to turn it on, it will shut off almost immediately (turning off the indicator lights). When I plug it in, I can hear a faint almost squeaky clicking sound.
From what I have read, it looks like the motherboard might be dead. Of course, I'm having a hard time finding a D900T motherboard. I am wondering what my options are. This is really my only gaming machine. I have other boxen at home, but they are servers.
I've really had it with Alienware and their crap. I've never seen a more poorly designed notebook. Everywhere I've looked I've seen people who've had it without any problems for about two years, and then it dies. Thanks Alienware! You run a great scam!
Sorry if I sound bitter, but... I am haha. Anyway, I am wondering if you people have any pointers!
Thanks.
, yes it is, but after reading countless horror stories here at notebookforums im not sure how much longer my poor lappy will continue to...it feels solid just typeing on it now...but like i was explaining before the memory is what gave me so much trouble. You can feel it start working right when you take out an infected part of yor laptop the second you fix it. that pos memory gave me so many headaches, and why it was blue erroring my system ill never know, untill i gues i take it in. Here we have one of the two sticks as you can see are 512 megabytes each , that caused about 5000 or so blue errors on my machine. So frusterating, with no warrenty and not a clue..i hadent taken apart the stick untill just now. I dont see any brown or blac spots on it indicating a failed transister or something of that nature. i realy never thought it was the ram it self, just wrong memroy put into it, like different latency then the motherboard can use...
