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    M11X R2 giving me random blue screens with a few random games

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by CharAznable, Nov 7, 2011.

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    I have a Alienware M11X R2 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, and this is the only Operating system this computer has ever run besides Ubuntu which is on a separate partition. I have not modified the hardware aside having Dell/Alienware install an extra 4 gigs of DDR3 ram and a 500GB hard drive and i have the I3 CPU. I had no problems with anything until early last week, up until then everything i threw at the system ran fine.

    The OS was recently reset to factory settings via Alienrespawn, basically my hard drive was formatted and everything was restored and returned to the state it was in when it arrived at my home via a drive image, and i am still having the problem. I am running the most recent driver from Nvidia, and my computer is roughly two months old and i have not abused or treated it poorly.

    I am out of ideas on how to fix this, i figured formatting my hard drive and re-installing a bare bones OS state and re-installing the newest drivers after cleaning out all the traces of them with Drive Sweeper would fix the problem but a few random games such as Need For speed World and SD Gundam Capsule Fighter Beta Blue screen anywhere from 5 minutes in to a hour or more in game. What baffles me is i can play Borderlands or GTA4, or even Crisis all day, for more then 8 hours and never see a single blue screen or very very rarely but as soon as i run one of the above games it blue screens very quickly in most cases.

    Any help would be appreciated. I am not overclocking, but i was, but dropping my I3 down to its normal speed changed nothing. Still the same issue around the same speed. Just ran a video memory test for 30 minutes, it completed 6 full sweeps with 0 errors so i stopped it. Then did stress testing for an hour on the card, it stayed around 58-59 degrees Celsius and never crashed or detected errors . So it is clearly not a hardware issue. And the fact i can most the time do just about anything on this machine and never get a blue screen but a few random applications and games trigger it for some reason. So the only thing left that i can think of at this point is possibly the driver for my 335M Graphics Card, the most recent Verde 285.62 WHQL has issues and does not like something about those specific programs. Anyone have further input on this?

    I am at my wits end here. About to call a dell technician out and hope they can fix it or give me a replacement.
     
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