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    Blue Screen of Death ....

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by migault1990, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. migault1990

    migault1990 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    Well it's been 5 month since i got my m11x. The first month everything was fine, i wasn't able to play Starcraft 2 as i wanted because of the crappy driver u get at the beginning. Then i switched driver and everything was fine. The next month i started having random bluescreen. When i say random, i say completely random. When i click Shutdown i can have a bluescreen, when i am on sleep mode i might have a bluescreen when i try to open it up again. When i play wow i had a bluescreen. I tried to look in my event viewer to see if i could find any clue about my problems. It's seems like my Nvidia car is the probleme. So i downloaded the driver recommended by Dell, but i still have BSOD. Then, i tried to do a disk check, no change in my situation, i scaned my comp with my anti-virus, no change. I am about to do a System recovery to put my machine back to the factory state and see what happen. If i still have BSOD, it's mean that i might have a hardware problem i guess. The reason why i posted my thread was : Does anyone got a better solution ?

    Sorry for my english, i am a french-canadian, but at least i don't say BOat :)

    Migault1990
     
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    crumps Notebook Guru

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    Are you currently overclocked?
    If so, step back down to the stock clock setting and see if that resolves the issue for you.

    I was having a great deal of system instability with my machine until I stopped overclocking. I haven't had a single issue since.
     
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    migault1990 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the answer, but i am not that great with comp, i am scared to overclock my computer and break something lol , so i didn't overclocked it.

    Migault1990
     
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    crumps Notebook Guru

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    So you either have bad hardware (RAM, CPU, motherboard) or OS corruption. Will a BSOD occur in Safe Mode?
    Can you run the computer in safe mode for a few days to see if it occurs?
    Otherwise you could get Alienware support involved.
     
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