HI ALL,
I have DELL alienware M-15X laptop and something is not well with it and I don't know how to find what's wrong, so I need your help. (PC is about 4-5 years old, not abused, but played)...
Problem is this: when I boot, the screen stays BLACK, the OS (windows 7/64bit) doesn't load...not every time.
It boots "sometimes". If it doesn't boot, it flashes caps and scroll flashing on the toolbar on top left.
When it is running, I ran FurMark, Intel processor diagnostics and any other tests I could find...
How can I tell if it is a video card starting to go? Is there a way? What could cause this?
It was running well until I re-installed windows, (had to because of too much crap on HDD)
Thanks for help, greatly appreciated.
Specs: i7 740QM @1.73GHz/ 6GB memory,/ ATI Radeon HD 5800./ 60GB SSD, (that I changed for the default 500GB Seagate, thinking could be that, but NO change).
I have DELL alienware M-15X laptop and something is not well with it and I don't know how to find what's wrong, so I need your help. (PC is about 4-5 years old, not abused, but played)...
Problem is this: when I boot, the screen stays BLACK, the OS (windows 7/64bit) doesn't load...not every time.
It boots "sometimes". If it doesn't boot, it flashes caps and scroll flashing on the toolbar on top left.
When it is running, I ran FurMark, Intel processor diagnostics and any other tests I could find...
How can I tell if it is a video card starting to go? Is there a way? What could cause this?
It was running well until I re-installed windows, (had to because of too much crap on HDD)
Thanks for help, greatly appreciated.
Specs: i7 740QM @1.73GHz/ 6GB memory,/ ATI Radeon HD 5800./ 60GB SSD, (that I changed for the default 500GB Seagate, thinking could be that, but NO change).
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