soFluxed

have you tried the obvious thing? Tear down, dust out, repaste?

its very possible to create a larger watt psu as mr.fox's post examples, in regard to the cooling, its probably possible to up the fan RPM or perhaps thicken or increase the density of fins on the current 150w coolers

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On 1/14/2016 at 1:09 PM, urmother93 said:

 

hahahahhahah, were on the same boat, 

i actually had a similar incident my self with my 17 r5, or 17 r2, dont know what they are being called now a days. 

 

this was my post on NBR, didnt get all the answers so i devided to post here, what the hell right, 

though i have been following notebookreview for years now, 
so i have been using my alienware 17 R5 780m 120hz 3d with windows 10 (uefi mode) since its initial beta release, and never had a problem,

after the official release of windows 10, i went back to windows 8.1, updated all my drivers and went back to windows 10. 

once again, didn't experience any problems, how ever couple of weeks back, i woke up to find my computer keyboard lights on and a black screen, (i always sleep with the computer on)

so i just held down the power button till it powered down, and restarted, it gave me 8 beeps, after a quick google search i found out its GPU related, 

and since i did a GPU repaste not long before this, i figured i screwed something up there, 

now, since i have a 120hz 3d screen, i cant use optimus, 

so i decided to put my original 60hz screen back, and to no surprise my computer booted up without a problem, so i decided to put the gpu back, first thing i did after reinstalling my gpu, i went into bios, (i am running a14 the lastest one) and i saw that it showed me that the discrete gpu was detected, but after entering windows, under device manager there was a not working properly icon was there, but it did show the 780m, so i just uninstalled all the driver simple with add program and features, rebooted into bios again, and suddenly no discrete graphics are detected, i was shocked again, how ever when i booted into windows my gpu was there, so i went back into bios but this time my gpu was there, but the screen was showing vertical lines and it was all blurry and distorted, so i just repasted my gpu, and resit it in the slot. booted back into bios, problem solved, went into windows, installed the drivers no problems, after a week or so i installed my 120hz 3d screen back. and never had a problem again. 

so can someone please tell me if the issue i had was just a coincidence or is it related to windows 10.

that being said, i want to add that i never had precision X on my pc,

and now ive moved on to bigger better things, i have a m18x r2, which btw at one point accidentally auto updated to 10, i freaked out and restored it back to 8.1 asap. been running like a dream since. and i have absolutely no need for an upgrade till something really amazing comes up. 

so far the new laptops really havent gotten my attention, except for a select few like the eurocom x9 sky, with desktop grade cpus and the 980, but for now i dont have the finances not the need to upgrade, i will be using and absuing this baby till its last breath. 

 

I have had so many issues with dual 580m's in my R1, If you are having any boot issue I always recommend a gpu reseat before giving up.

how innovative, might make a cool project this spring after i dare another repaste :/

thank you for this!

On 8/3/2015 at 6:25 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Well, the display driver can influence refresh rate, resolution, color depth and probably a lot of other things that are way over my head. If the display driver forces a monitor to run at frequencies that are not healthy for it to run, guess what? Bad stuff can happen. The problem is, we don't know for sure what the deal is or why it is taking place. The common denominator seems to be NVIDIA's latest drivers and Windows 10. And, unless you purchased a model that ships with Windows 10, the OEM doesn't have to take care of you... not their fault if the end user decides to install a new OS.

At least three people identified. But, I wonder how many people are having this issue that we don't know about that have no clue what is happening to their laptop?

Even I assumed the first one was a random hardware failure. I only know otherwise because of it happening to three of my displays. That cannot be a coincidence.

 Windows 10 has many problems with the M18xR1 for sure, however I overclock my display on windows 7, sometimes as high as 90hz over the stock 60hz. However it can cause faint issues or catastrophic failure. Just a natural risk of going and doing what the manufacturer doesn't officially support.