I have an Alienware M17xR3 on Windows 10 (64 bit) I have had the laptop since 2011. Where I suffered a whole load of problems. I have recently taken it to my local laptop repair shop where he put in a new motherboard and upgraded the graphics card to Nvidia GeForce 880M upgrading the memory from 4gb to 8gb and 16GB Ram.
Before I started getting problems, the laptop had switchable graphics and HDMI sound. Since getting it back the switchable graphics and the HDMI audio are disabled in Bios. He told me that he had been on the phone to dell countless times trying to figure out why it was disabled. Dell told him there was no work around so he gave me a USB dongle for sound and mic and some speakers (that really are terrible! Lol)
I play a lot of PS4 and like to have my laptop screen through the TV ect so I use the HDMI In port on this laptop a lot. Reading online found some helpful tips so I decided to shutdown the laptop and boot into Bios. I changed the HDMI sound to Enabled. Saved and rebooted. Low and behold I have sound coming out of my Laptop internal speakers (hurrah!) BUT another problem arose. I get no picture on the laptop screen. I am otherwise greated with a full screen of pure colour (so far it's been light blue, blue and green)
Obviously the sound works but is there a work around or a fix for the graphics card throwing a hissy fit when I enable the HDMI audio in bios?
Thanks everyone in advance
Mike
(sorry for the long winded post was trying to be as detailed as I could be)
Before I started getting problems, the laptop had switchable graphics and HDMI sound. Since getting it back the switchable graphics and the HDMI audio are disabled in Bios. He told me that he had been on the phone to dell countless times trying to figure out why it was disabled. Dell told him there was no work around so he gave me a USB dongle for sound and mic and some speakers (that really are terrible! Lol)
I play a lot of PS4 and like to have my laptop screen through the TV ect so I use the HDMI In port on this laptop a lot. Reading online found some helpful tips so I decided to shutdown the laptop and boot into Bios. I changed the HDMI sound to Enabled. Saved and rebooted. Low and behold I have sound coming out of my Laptop internal speakers (hurrah!) BUT another problem arose. I get no picture on the laptop screen. I am otherwise greated with a full screen of pure colour (so far it's been light blue, blue and green)
Obviously the sound works but is there a work around or a fix for the graphics card throwing a hissy fit when I enable the HDMI audio in bios?
Thanks everyone in advance
Mike
(sorry for the long winded post was trying to be as detailed as I could be)
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