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Hello everyone, I have an Alienware M17x with 3D screen and a NVIDIA GTX 580m that stopped working after 2 years of use, so I was looking to upgrade it and bought the GTX 675m from eBay. It arrived yesterday and could fit normally in the heat dissipator, I assembled it and plugged in the laptop, so far so good, everything was looking just fine, but when I turned the laptop on the screen was on, but all black, it started beeping and then kept reestarting and beeping in a cycle. Before installing the new video card I formatted the computer to get rid of all the old NVIDIA drivers, so I could start fresh, I would like to know if I should install a vbios, a specific driver or even a modded one for it to work, or if it's no going to work at all, maybe because of the 3D screen. I don't mind loosing the 3D, I just want it to work with a GTX 675m. That card was no cheap at all and there's a lot of things I still need to try, but if someone who had the same problems or someone with expertise could share some light... This is my first post here, but I have been following many threads, specially Alienware related and I could see that there is a great community here, keep up with the good job guys! I hope I'm no breaking any rules here, any help/suggestion would be most appreciated! Thanks! Luiz Clarke