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Hey all, Is it safe to install this on my laptop? I'm running Windows 7. I've read some scary things... or is that just with windows 10? Please let me know. Thanks- - - Updated - - - Hey all, Is it safe to install this on my laptop? I'm running Windows 7. I've read some scary things... or is that just with windows 10? Please let me know. Thanks

Guys, on a similar note. I've recently installed AutoCAD 2016 and Revit 2016 and a long with the installation were a bunch of Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables. What happened after was that EVERY single game I ran, lagged. It was ridiculous. I even reinstalled the game fresh and still lagging. I believed it was these C++ installs that made everything lag. Am I right? I did a system restore and everything's back to normal now, but I don't have the latest CAD nor revit. Did anyone every run into anything like this? The programs were working fine. Just that the games were lagging like crazy. Thoughts anyone?

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yea, i think im gona do that... next upgrade i plan to do, I'm gona build a tower Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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Thanks for the reply Robbo. So, what happened to me when I tried to upgrade my secondary hard drive to a 2Tb was that I took the page filing option to the secondary drive instead of the main SSD. When I switched out the hard drive, it refused to start. After I switched it back, it worked. So, after figuring out how to get it running, and I reinstalled EVERYTHING, (like (800Gb of programs/ games) I realized that every 30 secs to 5 mins, the computer would freeze for like 5-10 secs, then go back to normal. (lol, I know, just my luck right) The issue was that the a bios setting was incorrect. I can't remember if I had RAID or AHCI, but whichever one it was, I had the wrong one and I couldn't just switch it, so I had to do a clean install and the only way to reinstall the audio drivers to get the computer working without the external sound card is to have the soundcard drivers installed!!! I had to swap back to the 6990mHD and install the drivers. It worked fine. I installed everything and all was go. A few months later, I decided to play a game that was incompatible with the soundcard and the 780mGTX installed. Anyway, long story short, it was a disaster. Sometimes, the computer would refuse to boot with the 6990mHD installed. I literally did the exact thing for 4 hours straight; CHANGING NO DETAIL with what I did, and only 4 hours later it worked. It was PURELY hit or miss. There were 4 beeps or 5 beeps or 6 beeps sometimes and the way around them was different all the time. Imagine that for one of the scenarios, the GPU had to be removed, sometimes it wouldn't need to. Then I had to put bios settings back whenever I removed the GPU, when it wasn't, I'll have to hold down the function button, then try again. Then when it does start, it will start with the screen flickering in green or red or something. Then I would have to re-seat the card, then go into bios and re-set stuff. Sometimes, i forgot to change it, AHHHHHHH!!!! it was a nightmare and a half, seriously. Seeing that you had to go through all that and you have no sound card issue, I think I'm good with windows 7. Like they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In my 2Tb data drive, I have like 1.4Tb filled with movies, games and programs. I might seriously get a stroke this time around. I'll think I'll just have Windows 10 on my netbook and have my m17x run windows 7. I use it like a desktop anyways and i use the M11x when I'm mobile. A couple questions; the driver you linked above, do you think it'll work with the 780m GTX installed on a windows 7 machine? I think it will be the same procedure as usual

Hey guys, I have a situation that I'd like some advice with if you can help. Basically I'm thinking about upgrading my M17xR3 to windows 10. Now, I was thinking that if I was to go about doing that, that the main problem would obviously be the sound card issues as before. Now, lol, I've gone through hell and back with this M17xR3 and I've vowed that I will not open up this computer again. The latest thing that I did was upgrade the secondary hard drive to a 2Tb hard drive so that I can store more media on it. The 500Gb wasn't cutting it, so the act of upgrading that was ridiculous, but I got it done. (Yes, I had to re-format and do a clean installation) The latest nuisance with this computer was playing Black Ops 2 on it. Apparently this game has issues with the sound card as well while using the 780m GTX. Anyways, with the 2Tb upgrade solved, I thought that I could at least swap back to the 6990mHD back and forth (that was the worst idea). Long story short, I had a hell ride getting the 780m GTX working again, the computer even refused to boot with the 6990mHD. I'm still running windows 7 on my M17x (back up and running) and I have windows 10 installed in my netbook, which really looks promising, hence why I'm thinking about upgrading my 17". Has anyone even thought about upgrading to windows 10 or has anyone even tried with all the upgraded hard drives and gymnastics that needs to be done to get the hardware running? I've been really out-of-date with this forum, so please excuse me if this has been discussed before. Can it be done without issue with the M17xR3 with the hardware upgrades or is it too much stress to manage?

thanks, that's good to know. I've had my old card on me since, lol, now i can toss it. i'll keep note of that if i want to upgrade to windows 10! I really hate taking apart my computer after all the headache with my upgrades. U have no idea the trouble i went through with my gpu, cpu and hdd upgrades... the headaches were in decreasing order however, but trouble nonetheless. I was hoping that the secondary hdd upgrade was the last time i had to take apart my laptop. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

i"m not 100% sure, but yea, try that. I just know that u cant do it with the 780m installed. u want to try it with the iGPU? just make sure to disable it when installing the 780m again. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

u need to have the 780m out of the laptop to have the soundcard enabled in order to install the IDT driver. i don't know why this is the case, because i enabled audio once my 780m was recognized and it didn't install. I had to take it out to get it to work. I put in my old 6990m, enabled audio, installed driver, disabled audio, swapped to 780m, started ok, then i reenabled the audio and everything worked. i know this because i had to reinstall windows when i changed my secondary hdd to a 2TD. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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can u run the computer with the integrated gpu?

I think that's what J95 has in the post above. Don't forget to thank him Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What about the sound card issue? Will that be present with the 770m? I assumed it was for all the 700m series cards... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m17x-aw-17/4829-780m-gtx-m17xr3-integrated-soundcard-working-again-no-more-usb-soundcard.html

I understand, but I meant to have both enabled like before the upgrade... So the graphics switching feature can be utilized again. I'm tempted to try, but I really don't want I have to take apart my computer again. I might get a stroke this time around. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, in the beginning, everyone was using the USB sound card, sooo... Damn... No way to re-enable it like the IDT sound card? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

U brave enough to try the hd3000 now? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Idk. I never re-enabled my hd3000... To be honest, I HARDLY even play games any more... I just watch netflix and go on YouTube and Facebook, lol... I only play mw3 sometimes and that's it. I not that much into games as before. Perfect timing right? Lol Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ok, I think I pretty much gotten better at doing a paste job. I read that the thinner the layer, the better. Is that true? I pasted my GPU with Arctic Silver 5. I was thinking to use Arctic Silver again for the CPU as opposed to ICD 7. I remember doing the paste job on my other GPU before (the last time, remember? ) with ICD7. it was so coarse that it actually scratched the GPU die. (the metal plate that you have to apply the thermal compound on the VGA card itself). It looked like someone used sandpaper on it. The paste job i did on my current card, I put a little dab of AS5 in the middle and took my metro card and spread it on the die. (as if I were buttering bread) It actually turned out to be too thin a layer, so i had to put a little more. I screwed it up and unscrewed and checked until I was satisfied. I don't know what that method is called. Do you know? I figure I'd do the same with my CPU. A thin layer if I'm not mistaken? Ok, so the Heaven benchmark tool is for GPU temp testing and I assume that this Prime95 is better at CPU testing... I found a download for Prime95: Prime95 (64bit) - 25.11 Download - EXTREME Overclocking Is that it or is it the wrong one that you have? I agree with you too. I think games wouldn't be CPU intensive. I actually used hwinfo to monitor if my CPU is throttling in the OSD during gaming. I remember it started throttling with BF4 single player.

Hey Robbo, I was doing some gaming on my laptop last night and I noticed that the cpu temperature was like 90-95C for 4 cores. It actually shut off my computer. I was like: I think I will have to give the retention mod a go. I found the thread here: http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m17x-aw-17/24-m17x-retention-mod.html I wanted to ask you. Initially, I don't want to overclock my CPU unless its absolutely necessary, but with stock clocks, what SHOULD a good temperature be? Idle is about 55C I believe, but when under load, WOAH!!! big increase. I was thinking I could do a good paste job then if that fails, I can give the retention mod a go, but under load, say 100% or whatever, what are good temps? What's your temps? I remember you said your cpu is overclocked, so I assume that a stock clocked cpu would be lower temp:59:

I went off on a tangent, my apologies. Anyways, I will test the clocks with another game and will stick to the thread discussion in my future posts. To stay on topic, when I was installing the heatsink, I noticed that the screws on the x-bracket on the heatsink mount were incompatible with the x-bracket on the back of the vga card. The screws that came with the upgrade kit are of a different length to the ones on the card. My idea is that this can vary the pressure applied on the card if screwed in all the way. What do you think? Do you think this could have caused problems with me previously, ALTHOUGH the tech in Eurocom said it works with an Eurocom laptop and not alienware laptops? If that is the case, I can't help but feel a bit guilty, but the guy says it works, so i'm even more confused. Obviously if it works on Eurocom laptops and not Alienware, its defective, but I'm humble and conscious of stuff like this.

I understand what you're saying, but read the article. I was using fraps to check the fps, and for some reason or the other, fraps has a conflict with ghosts. I always used to tell myself, "when all else fails, read the instructions"... I wanted to test it out more, but I have to work. I will test the clocks with another game later, but I'm still frightened to overvolt. I'm a BIG call of duty fan. Since COD1&2. That's the only reason i overclocked my card with svl7's vbios. I really didn't want to, but in the moment I was confident. If there are work arounds, I will go around that path, but I'm still afraid to overvolt and overclock. Did you get a copy of bf4? My cpu is throttling severely with that game. I believe cod ghosts is causing my cpu to throttle as well. i'm seeing temps as high as 90C. I might do the clip retention mod if that's the case. have you done that as yet? Necessity is the mother of invention. I don't want to do it, but if i have to, i have to...

Check this: Call of Duty Ghosts FOV, Ram Fix, FPS, Lag, Crashes, Freezes, Stuttering, Errors, and Fixes - SegmentNext By chance, you got it running properly? I did have fraps running btw, LOL!