Leo14

Damn =/ thanks man, going to just try to figure out how to properly re install windows 7 and just do it myself rather than having them walk me through it, as they call back at the worst times!

Got it back few hours ago, noticed right away the lighting issue I had was still there, than not even an hour of use it blue screens! they replaced the MLB and Blue Tooth. the exterior is fine though, I can't believe they sent me this piece of paper saying "The system was diagnosed and extensively tested by certified technicians to ensure the problem you experienced was corrected" because, clearly, both aren't fixed. If they would have diagnosed they would have saw the blue screens and saw that I cant change the stupid LED's. Now waiting for them to call back so I can re install windows what a lovely day

Getting it back Monday so I will definitely check thank you for the heads up! I hope they don't break anything =/ yeah me too, this same problem is killing me.. I agree with you 100% on that!

Sending it to dell and letting them just replace more stuff

Ohh I would love to test this.. now if I could only get my m17x to turn on lol! Calling dell later, will be sure to download asap so thank you

Mmm still can't change my keyboard colors and what not.. and just got a blue screen before O_o Also, when I turned it off/turned it back on it started beeping.. did that before when the guy was testing it after he installed all the parts

Thanks man yeah, it's awesome! They did it today in 30 minutes. Just realized I need to flash my bios as its on A04, hoping than I can change my keyboard colors because I still can't do that LOL. They even replaced the whole area around my keyboard to, and in the front

Well, I sat on the phone with dell/alienware for a while and after them not being able to fix the LED's they said they were going to send keyboard/motherboard/GFX card O_o? I felt like it was too good to be true, and I didn't know I even had that kind of coverage roflmao. They fixed the blue screens though. I don't know what they did, but they did benchmarking for me and with heaven something score was 601.

Just got some random belkin one, gift card so I was limited lol. Wish I could get the storm though

On the phone w/ alienware, ran a benchmark score was around 601.. no bsod/no bsods even stored.. she said it wasnt a hardware issue, but doesnt know.. ideas? bsod's only happen in game

Well, the updates definitely helped slow the BSOD's from coming in, but they still happen. Usually in game, and running on high performance. Temps are still normal, but it is quite hot on the bottom of my laptop/the surface it is on. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I always am using a headset/mouse (razer megaladon/razer mamba) Also, found some pictures from when I did this a couple days ago.. When I did update though, I didn't use driver sweeper.. Should I do that, than re-install 296.10? I'm really hoping this isn't a hardware issue, and just something gone wrong inside a file or something.. still can't get AlienFX to work properly either lmao. Hoping once I get the BSOD's to stop, AlienFX will work to.

No, haven't flashed to A09. I believe I have .Net framework installed updated etc, but I will try that thank you! Do you recommend flashing my bios to A09? I just don't want any more BSOD's but I think I fixed it (wattage issue in BIOS, wasn't set to the highest) forgot where the link was but it was someone on here in their sig

I have, multiple times

Can't seem to figure this one out, my keys wont change color.. I keep getting this message, nothing I try works and I've been trying to make this work here and there for a while now, it is just so frustrating that something like this is my only issue LOL.

Wow didn't even know the verde drivers came out, well I haven't done that much gaming recently but I also haven't seen any BSOD's after the driver update.. Should I still DL the latest verde drivers? IIRC.. 150+, but started off with 50, than 100, than up'd them 150.. Always kept the GPU side hovering in the air basically, temps usually were at 60C and sometimes I would see them go up to highest 63, maybe I've seen it at 65 at one point but that was not for very long. Not sure what you mean by test bed.. but I play BF3 on high and some ultra settings, always getting perfect framerate (no choppyness) with the OC it was around 60 fps nowadays its more around 30, which is still fine for me if it is that low because it is still smooth. Also play LoL and get 100~ fps.

Well, the BSOD's stopped for a little while, than after OC'ing my GPU for a while, the BSOD's came back! They have been going on over and over again, even after I uninstalled the OC program (afterburner 2.0) Going to try to update my drivers for my 460 as I just saw there were newer ones.. hoping that fixes this/my lack of performance with this thing =/

Awesome, wish I could have a GeForce GTX 675M.. Enough about the pixels =P Our screens are amazing compared to others imo

^ Thank you so much, everything is fixed and that helped, i just never replied for some reason sorry. Back to owning

1st crash dump On Fri 1/13/2012 2:20:10 PM GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\011312-23727-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x7CC40) Bugcheck code: 0x9F (0x3, 0xFFFFFA8007FC6A10, 0xFFFFF800046433D8, 0xFFFFFA800BE12010) Error: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System company: Microsoft Corporation description: NT Kernel & System Bug check description: This bug check indicates that the driver is in an inconsistent or invalid power state. This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver which cannot be identified at this time. 15th crash dump (out of 33) On Wed 1/11/2012 5:19:43 PM GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\011112-24960-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x7CC40) Bugcheck code: 0x9F (0x3, 0xFFFFFA8007A0BA10, 0xFFFFF8000462D3D8, 0xFFFFFA80078495B0) Error: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE file path: C:\Windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System company: Microsoft Corporation description: NT Kernel & System Bug check description: This bug check indicates that the driver is in an inconsistent or invalid power state. This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem. The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver which cannot be identified at this time. Also, BF3 wont run.. Tried to do benchmarking and I got an error saying you must have direct x 11, said my current version was 10.1? Possibly from the beta drivers?

Updated drivers.. still happening =( don't feel like calling dell and having to deal with them.. any other ways to get to the bottom of this besides calling them?

Lololol hilarious.. might need to reinstall, also check to see if you need to update your drivers.. Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using Tapatalk

>< Should have searched.. thanks haha, will check that out after court. Didn't know there were new drivers already, been pretty good with the ones that came out for BF3 (PITA tp install loll)

DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE is what I keep getting, not really sure what that means but it keeps happening. Happens while browsing the internet or gaming, and lately I've been having my game crash..

Oh, must have read wrong elsewhere.. Thanks!

I don't have the trackpad software installed, but am starting to want it for the little stupid tasks I do besides gaming, if I turn off the trackpad (FN + F-12) Does that turn off the processes running in the background? Or should I just not install the software/drivers or whatever you want to call it and just live with it? I usually turn off the T-pad when gaming though, and alien fx (use a diff keyboard)