Alienware X51 Pink Screen of Death

Link to photo of Battlefield 3 frozen with pink screen:

try alienautopsy

and see the results

Pink screen tends to be a video crash.  Could be driver, hardware.

but need to look in event logs.  Well Alien autopsy does that to.  So what solrac135 said. try out alienautopsy and see what it says.

Hiya, I've had similar problems with a Area 51 with dual GTX 680, it turned out there were two issues, the monitor was faulty, and one of the cards was faulty too, if your using an external monitor, try another one and another monitor cable, the previous posts are right, it's going to be something to do with the videocard or perhaps what I've mentioned above

Thanks for the replies. I've ran alienautopsy and everything passed with no issues. I also updated all the drivers for my system including graphics etc. I've tried another monitor and the problem still keeps happening. Do you think its a faulty GTX555?

On alienautopsy theres a critical event for each time it crashes which says:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was 0x000000116 (a load of random letters/numbers) and then "Unexpected shutdown".

This is so annoying the X51 has so many problems :(

I suggest you download FurMark and Prime 95 and run them both at the same time.

Remember that FurMark must run in full screen mode, so you should first run Prime 95, than start FurMark in fullscreen and let it run for about 20-30min.

Have Real Temp running in the background. This way you'll see how far your temps will go, check your max temps with the 2 programs i mentioned

After this  test you could provably know that indeed there is something wrong 

What i don't understand is why YouTube get that pink problem if he is running with the discrete graphic card NO?

bsod 0x000000116 = lack of power to video card, incorrectly installed drivers.

pink screen of death = defective video card ram.

btw I have also a m18x for a few months now and this machine is perfect - really no irony besides.

But the x51 is unbearable. If I get rid of this (very soon) I cannot sell it that would be a crime, I better do the mankind a favor and trash it.

I have the exact same problems since a few days - once per day usually in the evening after watching video hearing music I get the PSOD. Very nice I'm so happy with this system after the unsoilved problems with the

WLAN card, with the noisy GPU fan now this! I already did now a GPU and CPU stress test but everything was fine, full load on both, temp over 80 degree Celcius (over 85 the GPU) maxed out fans - nothing. Alien Autopsy nothing everything perfect - well almost beside the PSOD of course.

I installed the 296.x driver from Nvidia instead of the old ass 285.x - not that I want to, but I had to because I lost the capability to watch TV with Zattoo - the screen went green if I try to watch TV. After the update to 296.x the green screen was gone but maybe I have now the pink screen because of that......

Have you tried a different display ?

TFT/LCD displays go pink with Inverter Error or Backlight Failure. Sometimes they freeze an 'echo' of the display, mobile/cell phones do this alot.

I think I've managed to fix mine now. Haven't had this problem for about 5 days now (it was daily before). I did the following:

Using the Nvidia icon in the tray I updated all the drivers. After doing this the pink screen was still happening.

I then ran Alienautopsy and as usual it said everything was perfectly fine. From Alienautopsy I clicked on update drivers, this then took me to the Alienware website with a big list of drivers.

Near the bottom were 2 drivers for graphics (1 for graphics card and 1 for the intel graphics I believe). I downloaded both of these and installed them with no problems.

Since doing this I havent had 1 pink screen or freezing and my videos even seem slightly smoother (espcially when going into full screen on Youtube as this was a bit jumpy previously).

I'll update this post if I get another pink screen but for now at least it seems to have done the trick!

Alienware X51 Pink & Green Screen of Death !

It seems our Chinese friends are having the same Pink and Green issues

http://bbs.alienfans.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=90140&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D80%26typeid%3D80

Alienware X51 Pink & Green Screen of Death!

Hi guys, it seems the new driver

-from Nvidia  fix the Pink & Green screen issue

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/43560

Hi,

My "display" is rather high end  Amp Primare SPA22 even the projector is high midrange Pana AE-4000, the cable is not really high end but I does the job for some time now. It's connected from the GTX555 DVI to HDMI at the AMP. The Amp itself doesn't touch the signal. So the only cheap component here is the X51.

Before I had a Mac mini but it was too slow for my purpose - play and rip uncompressed bluray, play flac till 192 kHz.....

The audio output is by the way disabled, I use the SPDIF Coax Output with a external DAC.

So there will no display changing for me only a HTPC will happened.... I try this evening this new Nvidia beta driver 3xx.x something.

After using 301.24 BETA no more problems. No PSOD and no Green screen with flash-based TV-players 

Sadly the x51 has to go anyway too noisy for a HTPC.