Recent content by Sephirothskr

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    Question Why does plugging in headophones screw up my pc?

    I'm using an alienware x51 R3, which has an external power brick. i7 6700 k processor gtx 970 Some proprietary motherboard The issues started after I had geek squad install new ram strangely enough. The ram works fine in games, in fact, my games run smoother than ever, but now I'm having these...
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    Question Why does plugging in headophones screw up my pc?

    I plug in my razor krakens into my headphone jack, and my pc freaks out. Suddenly, certain buttons cant be pressed on my tray. Youtube videos no longer buffer, and games such as rainbow 6 (only one I've tested it with) either get no sounds to headphones or I'm greeted with a black screen. If I...
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    Computer's chrome stops working among other programs

    I have a brand new alienware I just bought, and sometimes while I'm working on it programs will just not work. For instance, I'll be on chrome and all of a sudden webpages won't load and I'll close out of it but it won't re-open. Task manager usually won't load either when this happens. I've...
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    Weird freaking bluescreen driver erasing!

    I still got another one.... from the same darn kernel driver thing. :( I hate this!!! I don't want to have to redo an entire installation, that'd be horrendous
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    Weird freaking bluescreen driver erasing!

    Freefall data protection comes with alienware laptops, where if you drop it it locks the drive instaneously to avoid damage.
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    Weird freaking bluescreen driver erasing!

    I'm getting a ton of blue screens now this time saying 'Driver_Power_State_failure' Two .dmps to go off of. I followed above instructions ^ to no avail! https://mega.nz/#F!LdAx2KBY!w6QuWIVBHPbggBf26Sna1Q I do not want to have to go straight back to my defaults. I have way too much stuff on...
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    Weird freaking bluescreen driver erasing!

    This reply is a bit late.. But I've done this and it still happens.
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    Weird freaking bluescreen driver erasing!

    I get blue screened all the freaking time and it's this stupid kernel security check failure thing, and it always deletes my graphics driver for some damn reason and I don't know why. My driver is updated. I don't get it. Is it something else that's causing it? dump file...
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    Conputer gets extremely loud, freezes, and resumes again (among other things)

    Thanks guys, but months ago when I had this problem, alienware sent out an email with a hot fix for this. So now I'm good to go! :).
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    Conputer gets extremely loud, freezes, and resumes again (among other things)

    It's an alienware 14 bought last year. Quad core i7.
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    Conputer gets extremely loud, freezes, and resumes again (among other things)

    My computer all of s sudden just starts getting really loud and it'll freeze for few seconds then go back to normal. And sometimes one of my programs will stop responding and I can't end the process in task manager, and when I restart when this happens, it restarts but hangs on a black screen...
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    Wifi drivers not working after upgrade

    To upgrade to windows 8 on alienware 14, you must uninstall the atheros Bluetooth suite. I boot up windows 8, no wifi. No surprise here. But when I go to reinstall the driver, it says "must remove the killer 7/8 wifi driver 64 bit" and no matter how many times I try to get rid of this software...
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    I keep blue screening OMG

    I was playing eve when suddenly my laptop bluescreened. I right click desktop and it loads infinitely. Can't access nvidia control panel, and I blue screened again sometime later. I'm flipping out as this computer is extremely expensive... Idk what to do. Someone help please.
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    Is this back light bleed normal?

    Towards the bottom of my screen I see a few small brighter splotches that hug the bottom, is this normal? It's not a bunch, but it's noticeable when screen goes black.