- Jul 20, 2015
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Alright so here's the deal I have a first generation(The Early 2012 version) of the Alienware x51 here are some of the specs
GTX 660 Nvidia Graphics card.
8gb Memory
Bios version A12
Intel i7 Quad Core(Although in reality it has 8 cores) 3.4ghz
Here's the deal.... I've replaced the HDD 2 times in the last 3 months. When the original HDD failed the computer began to stutter while i was playing a game and then it eventually froze up completely and I couldn't even access task manager to shut it down i had to hold the power button. After holding the button the computer powered down and upon rebooting wouldn't boot past a black screen couldn't access Task Manager or anything. No mouse nothing so I took it over to my uncles house we hooked it up to another computer running windows 8 and repaired it as much as possible with what windows could offer took it back home hooked it up in my computer and still a black screen ran the repair bcd command and I was able to boot after that.... For a little while at least, eventually it went back to doing the same ol' thing but this time there was no possible repair hinting to me that maybe the bcd was damaged beyond repair due to some other failure in my computer so i replaced the drive with an old 250 gb Maxtor drive. Eventually this drive would do the same thing. It froze up and upon reboot my computer wasn't even finding the drive. This was after about maybe a month. After this one died I replaced it again with a different used drive this time being a Western Digital 320gb drive. With this drive its been weird it did the whole freeze up and then not recognize drive thing but if i wait about 15 minutes i can boot it back up run it for about 30 minutes and then it will do the same thing again. I've called Alienware tech support and they want $130 to even offer me support over the phone and i'm not gonna pay that. Also have Googled for hours upon hours to try and find the culprit to no avail. So maybe the trusty toms-hardware community can help me get this straightened out. Thanks Guys any help would be appreciated.
I really need to use this computer when I'm in college so any help would save my life.
GTX 660 Nvidia Graphics card.
8gb Memory
Bios version A12
Intel i7 Quad Core(Although in reality it has 8 cores) 3.4ghz
Here's the deal.... I've replaced the HDD 2 times in the last 3 months. When the original HDD failed the computer began to stutter while i was playing a game and then it eventually froze up completely and I couldn't even access task manager to shut it down i had to hold the power button. After holding the button the computer powered down and upon rebooting wouldn't boot past a black screen couldn't access Task Manager or anything. No mouse nothing so I took it over to my uncles house we hooked it up to another computer running windows 8 and repaired it as much as possible with what windows could offer took it back home hooked it up in my computer and still a black screen ran the repair bcd command and I was able to boot after that.... For a little while at least, eventually it went back to doing the same ol' thing but this time there was no possible repair hinting to me that maybe the bcd was damaged beyond repair due to some other failure in my computer so i replaced the drive with an old 250 gb Maxtor drive. Eventually this drive would do the same thing. It froze up and upon reboot my computer wasn't even finding the drive. This was after about maybe a month. After this one died I replaced it again with a different used drive this time being a Western Digital 320gb drive. With this drive its been weird it did the whole freeze up and then not recognize drive thing but if i wait about 15 minutes i can boot it back up run it for about 30 minutes and then it will do the same thing again. I've called Alienware tech support and they want $130 to even offer me support over the phone and i'm not gonna pay that. Also have Googled for hours upon hours to try and find the culprit to no avail. So maybe the trusty toms-hardware community can help me get this straightened out. Thanks Guys any help would be appreciated.
I really need to use this computer when I'm in college so any help would save my life.
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