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STRANGE VIDEO ISSUE ON MY M17x?

post #1 of 4
6/26/10 at 4:28pm
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Hi,

I have a strange issue with my M17x.Well,sometimes,at least several times a day,when I go and click on a link like to check my mail on MSN,my screen would go blank and flash on and off or just stay blank.Or sometimes,the screen would go back on but I get a message box says that the Nividia driver crashed and the system recovered.

Other times,when the screen goes blank,I will have to do a force shut down by holding the power button down since CONTROL ALT DELETE would not do nothing.

When I play MW2,I have no issues like that except when the fan kicks on high,I get some momentary lag.

I use stock Dell/Alienware drivers for Windows 7 64 bit.

I have loaded Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate installed from a Alien ware recovery disc.

I have tried all various drivers and see the same issues.

Any ideas?

Very annoying after spending $2,700 on a system I have this issue with.My older now sold M1730 never had this issue.

My video card is the Nvidia 280 GTX dual SLI.


Do I have a defective video card?Should I contact Dell and have them replace my video card?


Thanks in advance for my ideas or help.

Ko
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post #2 of 4
6/26/10 at 8:22pm
Try to monitor your temps and see how high they hit when this happens
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post #3 of 4
7/6/10 at 3:45pm
I had this issue with my Area 51 laptop also with Nvidia card (9800gt). There are millions of forums out there for this problem and no clear solution. In my case it was defective video card. 280M is based on same G92b core as 9800M.
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post #4 of 4
9/15/10 at 5:34pm
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 drivers

And Install the Dell 197.84 Beta Drivers


Worked perfect for me, hopefully it's the same for you!
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