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its a long process - Alienware 17 r5 *how to remove cmos battery Alienware 17 Overclocking BIOS Recovery Guide

have you guys tried a repaste yet?

The base is a Cool Master U3 ,

6zumlachen - what crashed when you are on the PSU? what OC are you running?

Is anyone Running the Vbios mod on an Alienware 17 2014, with the 120hz 3d?

here is my cooling solution,

im going to hold of on the vbios for now since i haven't had any real issues yet in the lack of performance,

I am in the same boat, debating if i should try it,

vsseracer - my m7 was a brand new unit out of the box, did all windows updates, bios updates, and driver updates and it still had the problem. did a fresh windows install still happened, then randomly tried the beta drives and fixed. Siplast did you already upgrade your m17xr4 to the 3d 120hz screen? what problems are you having?

Found the Solution, 337.5 BETA drivers solved the problem of the blank screen after closing lid.

I just recieved my m17 R5 ( OR r1). It has the 120hz 3D screen, I updated all the software but still have a persistant problem i cannot find a answer for. Ive set the lip to do nothing on close for both battery and powered, I close the LID, open it and laptops on, but screen is off. Then have to manually power down and restart, im running win 7 , current Nvidia 337.23 drivers, thanks

I found this on the forum in another post, but thats a compatable triple pipe heatsink, Dell Alienware M18x Cooling Heatsink DP/N: 0MXJ5, 00MXJ5, AT0MI0070C0

also need MHR0Y GPU Thermal Pad

I believe its the oem heatsink on the 780m's you can cross refrence the dell alienware part # is YP26V GTX780m GPU Thermal Module Right 100w should be triple pipe, its a good upgrade for most cards,