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    Alienware M9750 graphic card problems!

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by jstorm001, Oct 7, 2011.

  1. jstorm001

    jstorm001 Newbie

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    Hello i just joined the forums(nice website btw.) because i couldn't find any info online about my problem im having with my Alienware M9750 laptop it's driving me nuts i dont know whats wrong with it .

    Ok. I have two Geforce 8700M GT cards(SLi) installed in it but ever since i installed the New driver's both Verde 280.26 & 285.38(beta) driver's now it show i only have one graphic card now?!?! i dont know what the heck happen ......SLi is gone! under the PhysX option just shows one 8700 card. I've check the cards everything looks fine SLi cable fine i just dont know what happen is one of my cards maybe dead? i also uninstalled the 285.28 driver went back to 280.26 that didnt work went back to the factory driver Alienware driver 156.72 from My hive alienware.com still notting?......

    Should i maybe try AlienRespawn back to everything factory installed? i just hate doing that because messing up my iTunes & having to reinstalled all those Windows updates! blah! :eek:
     
  2. GallardosEggrollshop

    GallardosEggrollshop Notebook Evangelist

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    Hmm that's odd. Try resetting the CMOS battery and fiddle with the SLI cable a bit. It could be that as well. I would also try switching the cards. So take out one of them and run it to see if it sees the card then take out that card and put the other one in to see if it sees that one as well. That way you can find out if one of your graphics cards is truly broken.
     
  3. jstorm001

    jstorm001 Newbie

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    Thanks! will try it out let you know what happens