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BSOD Driver Power State Failure :/ (going on a full year now, lol)
Hello everyone, and thanks for reading
I got my alienware M17xR3 about a year ago now, since I received the P.O.S. I have had plenty of power from my machine like I was expecting, but I have also been having issues I've been attempting to debug on my own, namely the graphics card being shipped with a corrupted bios (LOL) and my connection issues with random networks I use that other people have zero issues with.
But to get to why I am here now.
Since I have had this computer I have been getting driver power state failure BSOD's about 1-3 times in the same day, about once or twice a month. It's one of the most bizarre things I have seen a bugging computer do. When it is working, (I'm still not sure if the GfxCard is, lol) I can render videos at incredible speeds, get smooth fps on many games and generally never get a hiccup. I can even do both at the same time when it wants to.
I can get this BSOD at anytime my computer is on.
I have had it happen thirty seconds after startup. All i loaded was chrome.
I have had it happen five hours into a gaming session with friends as well.
It does not seem to care how much it is doing, it just seems to crap on it self every once it a while.
It really sucks when programming and when typing papers, haha...
This is my first attempt for help on this issue, thanks in advance for any support