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    6990? confused.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by alienwolf, Nov 26, 2011.

  1. alienwolf

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    Received m18x with 6990's spec's below in sig, fired it up seemed all ok. A perfect machine, but wait why is there only Intel under display in the Device Manager? Device manger shows no video cards installed. Looked for catalyst control center none found. Went to AMD drivers downloaded driver finder ran it said no equ: found. Down loaded driver from dell ran it starts to install then fails, says device error. I opened it up and there are two cards in there any ideas. I'am at a loss. :confused:
     
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    Function - F7 will switch the Integrated Gfx off. After reboot you should be running on your 6990's.
     
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    As above. On integrated it wont show the card/s.
     
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    Plus rep to both of you, boy do I feel dumb.. :rolleyes: Thanks for the rescue saved me lots of grief! :cool:
     
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    A real d'oh moment.
     
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    Same thing happened to me. Except I was told to reseat the GFX card which in the end was a waste of time.
     
    SMOKE_SKULL, Nov 26, 2011
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    I hear you on that..use to Nvidia cards except for my desktop and I don't switch graphics on it.lol :rolleyes:
     
    alienwolf, Nov 26, 2011
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