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My Fixed Dilema With the M17xR3


Elendanis

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So, a few months back, my alieware laptop kicked the bucket, but for an odd reason. Randomly my motherboard shorted, or so I thought, and my laptop would now turn off the power adapter every time I would go to plug it in.

Unfotunately, it is my primary system, so I drastically opened it up to figure out what was wrong. After having no clue as to what it was, I used a friend's comp to use the magical google to try and figure out what it was! I came to the conclusion that my MOBO had died, and needed replaced.

I was wrong, after a day of dissasembling and reassembling this laptop, the same thing happened! So I was defeated, that was my last resort.

A few weeks pass, I'm without my gaming rig, and I'm on this other laptop, looking for solutions, when I came across a post talking about Alieware components, specifically graphics cards.

Turns out, when a g-card dies, it can short your MOBO. So, with my fingers crossed, I took out the graphics card, and booted with integrated graphics, and it worked!

My advice to you is: When your charger shorts, don't assume it's the mobo, test other components first!

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