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October 14th, 2012 11:00

Alienware Nightmare (constant BlackScreenOfDeath)

I buy a alienware m17x r3 a years ago (october 18 2011) and it is the wrost choice ive made in my whole life

Item                Details

Windows: Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (64-bit) Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
Internet Explorer: 8.0.7601.17514
Memory (RAM): 16366 MB
CPU Info: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz
CPU Speed: 2490.0 MHz
Sound Card: Speakers (High Definition Audio |
Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High De |

Display Adapters: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M | RDPDD Chained DD | RDP Encoder Mirror Driver | RDP Reflector Display Driver
Monitors: 1x; Generic PnP Monitor |
Screen Resolution: 1920 X 1080 - 32 bit
Network: Network Present
Network Adapters: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) | Killer Wireless-N 1103 Network Adapter | Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
CD / DVD Drives: 1x (D: | ) D: PLDS DVD+-RW DC-8A2SH
Ports: COM Ports NOT Present. LPT Port NOT Present.
Mouse: 7 Button Wheel Mouse Present
Hard Disks: C: 1387.0GB
Hard Disks - Free: C: 1333.9GB
USB Controllers: 2 host controllers.
Firewire (1394): Not Detected
Manufacturer *: Alienware
Product Make *: M17xR3
AC Power Status: OnLine
BIOS Info: | |
Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time
Battery Status: Unknown
Motherboard *: Alienware M17xR3
IP Address: 192.168.43.161 |
MAC Address: 60-D8-19-76-E2-2E
Host Name: DELLGOTOHELL
SM BIOS: A12

It is constantly freezing....the screen goes black the sound freez keyboard dont respond,from reading pdf to youtube video and playing ultra high setting game.it as been a month now that i call dell support every time a get the chance.I have been on the phone with them for around 12hours in total here are the steep they did to resolve my problem

*remove all antivirus (kaspersky and spybot S&D)

*buy system mechanic pro

*run pre boot diagnostic test i receive error code 2000-0221  interval timer not functional

*update bios to A12

*resetting bios by remove/replace cmos coin cell battery 

*run pre boot diagnostic test again  still receive error code 2000-0221  interval timer not functional

* formatting windows but...oups the windows cd i was given was corrupted and was shaking in the drive

*sending a none corupted version of windows

* formatting/installing version of windows 

*installing all driver from dell support center and installing all windows update (did nothing)

*been told to reformat and use only basic driver fond on alienware m17xr3 ressource DVD (witch btw recognize my nvidia 580m as a 460m therefor made it impossible to update grafic card from cd...but anyway still did nothing) 

*this morning*been told to run M17xr3 resources DVD preboot diagnostic but...when pressing start 32bit test do  nothing (that cd is probably corrupted to)

*been told i will be called back tomorow 

i also  tested  every ram stick in every slot, mini dump are corrupted and cannot be read

if someone somewhere have any clue about how to resolve that problem pleaseeeeee let me know (sry for my english i am french)