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Alienware M17x R4 Dedicated GPU problem
Hello,
I've never really ran into too much problems in the past 2,5 years I had this laptop.
Sadly around 1 to 1,5 months ago I ran into problems. I suddenly started to get the x116 blue screens which indicated something was wrong with my GPU or its driver. Since I initially thought some random update of World of Warships had made it corrupt I tried to uninstall this. But it didn't change anything. My GPU wasn't getting any hotter than it did before as well.
In the end the only solution being over was uninstalling the Nvidia driver. I used one of these drivesweeper programs to clean every single bit of Nvidia of my laptop, but now I ended up with a problem. Device manager doesn't want to show any Nvidia card anymore and the driver updates (the initial one from Dell or the Nvidia website ones) won't work because it can't detect.
The thing is, the Nvidia card shows up under dedicated card in BIOS and I can just switch to my dedicated card (Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M (or MX)) with the FN+F7 combination. Although I still can't download any driver and it still won't show up in device manager when I do that.
I uninstalled AlienRespawn (since someone mentioned that) but that didn't change anything at all. I was not able to find something like this specific case. The card still works, the problem is that I need windows to detect it.
The last option would be reinstalling the Intel HD4000 driver first (windows 7 64bit one that is). But would that really work? I'm not too eager on doing this. Or is there any other problem?
Thank you,
Docoda
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