As in the title. I have an Alienware M17x r2 system that I bought 3 years ago. When the system was 2 years old and 3 days before warranty expired I installed SETI at Home screen saver client. This is when my problems started. Let me explaine. Power on, and my screen is showing red and blue pixels randomly on the screen. Boots into windows and then I'm getting lines showing up covering desktop and icons. About 5 mins, sometime longer (random) my screen crashes with blue screen of death with memory dump and then reboots. What I have done. Restored windows to factory. Uninstalled ATI video driver (running the system in VGA mode) Updated system BIOS Updated video drivers Nothing seems to work and I'm getting the same errors and crashes. Note: when running the system in VGA mode drivers from windows 7, the system does not crash, but I'm also not able to run many programs as its only using 16 MB video ram. I'm thinking the video card is bad. I wish dell would just replace the video card or help getting this fixed. This is my 4th post with no response to my other 3 post (can't even find them) Thank you for your time. With a brand-new look and some of the highest-end tech available in a laptop, we're semi-surprised that Alienware has kept the M17x name for its newest 17-inch laptop (even if it loses the X-Files-esque 'Area-51' moniker). While the system starts at a reasonable $1,799, you'll need to configure something closer to our $4,849 review unit to really get the benefit of Alienware's years of experience making high-end gaming PCs. We appreciate the evolved design of the new M17x, which does away with some of the dorm-like qualities of past Alienware systems, making for a (slightly) more sophisticated-looking package. The somewhat goofy custom lighting system remains, but the automotive-inspired front-end grille and edge-to-edge glass on the display offset that. With an Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M GPUs, and 1TB of hard-drive space, this is about as powerful as laptops get without resorting to stuffing actual desktop parts in a chassis (as with the ). We often point to less expensive gaming laptops, such as the or the as offering a better bang for your buck, but if you want the very best, and are willing to pay for it, dropping several Gs on the new Alienware M17x will make you the coolest nerd on your block. Alienware M17x Average for category [desktop replacement] Video VGA-out, HDMI, DisplayPort VGA and HDMI or DisplayPort Audio 5.1 speakers, headphone/microphone jacks, surround sound audio outs. Stereo speakers with subwoofer, headphone/microphone jacks. Data 5 USB 2.0 (1 USB/eSATA), FireWire, SD card reader 4 USB 2.0, SD card reader Expansion ExpressCard/54 ExpressCard/54 Networking Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Optical drive DVD burner/Blu-ray player DVD burner [high-end: Blu-Ray] No shortage of ports and connections here, including a rarely seen mini-Firewire port and three separate video output options, including DisplayPort. Multiple audio-outs mean you can easily hook up a set of big PC speakers, which is a plus for high-intensity gaming. While our review unit was configured with nearly every high-end option available and cost almost $5,000, the M17x actually starts at a much more reasonable $1,799. The specs for that system are somewhat less impressive, with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, a single Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M GPU, 4GB of RAM, a 250GB 7,200rpm hard drive, a DVD burner, and a lower-resolution 1,440x900 screen. In contrast, we had a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300, along with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and dual Nvidia GeForce GTX280M graphics card, which moves the M17x to the top of our laptop performance list. One laptop we recently reviewed used a desktop PC 3.33GHz Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Quad Core processor, and was technically faster--but putting desktop parts in a laptop chassis is an entirely different animal. The quad-core Extreme-edition CPU helped in our multitasking tests, but the real-world difference between this and the non-Extreme Core 2 Quad Q9000 found in other high-end desktop replacements isn't enough to call it a must-have upgrade (especially for $750 more than the Q9000). The real star here is the SLI configuration of Nvidia's GeForce GTX280M. With two of these powerful GPUs working together, we got 168 frames per second at 1,920x1,200 in Unreal Tournament 3, making this our gaming laptop performance leader by a wide margin. Anecdotally, we fired up F.E.A.R. 2 at 19x12 and set most of the graphics options to medium or high for a smooth, impressive experience. Of course, with very few high-profile PC games currently in development, there may not be that many titles that deserve this kind of high-end treatment (one exception may be, one of the few buzz-worthy upcoming games that's being developed for the PC and ported to consoles, rather than the other way around). Nvidia's GeForce GPUs also include the company's CUDA technology, which lets the GPUs provide extra processing power to certain nongaming tasks, such as video rendering. Keep in mind that you'll have to use CUDA-compatible software, such as CyberLink PowerDirector 7. Alienware M17x-r2 Core-i7-Q740 1Tb HDD 8GB Window 10 Core i-7 -Q740 1.73Ghz 8Gb RAM 1TB. Inner SydneyHaymarket. Selling my old Alienware M17X as I'm hoping to upgrade my desktop. Laptop is in pretty good condition. Boroondara AreaCamberwell.. Alienware m17x. M17x alienware. 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