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Hey guys I thought it would be best of I start a new thread. I did a lot of research but nothing I've found helped. I own a m14xr1 with the i7 2630qm. My laptop was left on for a maintence and several hours later I found it still on but the screen is black. It was running pretty hard and kind of hot so I manually turned it off. This is not the first time this has happened...when I tried to turn it back on, there was nothing except 8 rhythmic beeps. I know that is the error code for LCD so I checked all the wires, even inside the laptop, and they were all normal. I drained the power and reset the CMOS battery but it didn't help. I recently flashed a volt mod bios so I went ahead and blind flash a factory one. The blind flash was a success, beeps several time and restarted itself, but the beeps still continue. I plugged the laptop into a monitor, it shows black page with a solid white dash on top left while it continue beeping. I tried the same thing but with the LCD unplugged and its the same result... At this point I've ran out of ideas and I think my GPU/mobo has gone bad... Any other ideas? Thanks! -TL

i hope you guys dont mind the thread revival...but i tried the bios flash method and it doesnt work...USB is formatted at fat32...i put the right file in...(am i supposed to make bootable usb using poweriso?) i press end and plugged in power at the same time...the fan went crazy but no beep or anything...just the fan going high the whole time..i tried using all 3 usb ports..

if it has to be nvidia go with the 760...but if you really want budget, check out the r9 270x card. plus cut some more corner with your tower case

depends on the socket type, i know that AW m14x r1 is g2 so this link can help Socket G2 / Socket rPGA988B

I'm running 8.1 pro and after the initial annoyances like window defender and window update running on their own, I don't see what else is wrong with the window 8. Personally, I like the new UI and look of window 8, plus it's highly compatible.

speaking from experience, cleaning out the dust and re-pasting really helped. Although our laptops are different, my m14x r1 used to idle around 80C, and now its idles mid 40s. I also turn of turbo and that help it stayed relatively cool during high load (below 90C). There is a drop in performance but its negligible. You should get a cooling pad or look into water cooling http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m15x/8622-m15x-hybride-cooling.html. Water cooling might turn your laptop into a desktop though haha

I've made a mistake buying my AW, now looking back, the laptop is so expensive and under power compare to a proper desktop. The biggest annoyance was the heat!

there is also this project Engadget | Technology News, Advice and Features i think i'll do what mike2668 posted, my m14x r1 is so outdated I'll need to overclock it to keep up

Neverwinter

my secondary gpu, nvidia 555m, is currently not detected =[[

house music~!

it takes too long to get into a game though