[HELP] Alienware m11x r1 gives error 43 for both display adapters on reboot

Someday I will know enough to help other people rather than beg, but that day is not today.

I purchased a used m11x today to act as an emergency laptop while my M18 is on extended leave of absence due to murdering.

However when I got it home, it seems someone has installed windows 10 on it without seeing if it can support windows 10 and I have been fighting drivers all day to get it fixed.

As it stands everything is updated and running great except for the display adapters. If I uninstall them, restart the system, install them intel first nvidia second they work -great-, no errors, I can set my display to its native resolution instead of stretching it with 1024 by 768.

I can edit nvidia settings, intel settings, run games, draft, its perfect. Its a wonderful portable emergency device with just enough power to be useful for stuff more complicated than a word browser.

However, without fail, every single time the machine is restarted the display is reset to 1024 x 768 as the maximum resolution and I get error 43.

Is there a BIOS setting causing it to fail on reboot?

Regards,

Kaine

 

Windows 10 on such an old machine is going to be trouble. I suggest downloading and running DDU then downloading the latest win 10 nvidia drivers directly from nvidia.

 

DDU Unfortunately did not help, but it did prove that until the restart happens the system works great.

Going into the BIOS, I disabled overclocking, which did NOT help, leaving me with the same error.

Going back to the BIOS, I enabled discrete graphics instead of switchable which fixed the issue. I would assume from this that the Intel graphics driver is incompatable with windows 10, or causing the issue. Going to be hard on the battery but thats the system I am going to live with for now.

Thanks for the U suggestion Raidriar, you've saved me twice in the same day.