Hello all,
So I'm new here and have been trawling the internet for ages to find a fault which matches my current issue but to no avail.
I have had an Aurora for three years now and at least once a day it crashes once, sometimes twice, but then seems to run fine after a hard shutdown from the machines power button, then restarting normally after being told windows was not shut down correctly.
The crash usually happens within 10 - 15 mintues of starting the machine. If I am playing a game, it will freeze and you get a constant drone from the speakers like it can't stop playing the last sound before the crash and I get either a blank screen or an Olive screen with white lines across. Sometimes it will just crash and the screen freezes (on desktop for instance, with no mouse response).
The lights at the front flash red-orange-yellow constantly in either case.
At first I attributed it to Windows trying to install an update. I noticed that it would try to install an update every night and take about 20 minutes to shutdown, there was an update everyday which I thought odd, so I turned off automatic updates and things went well for a day or two before the crashes started again.
The other odd thing was that the machine would crash when I was using a particular tank on WOT, so I avoided playing that tank and used others, again, that worked fine until the machine decided that it didn't like not crashing and now crashes randomly on whatever tank I play.
Also now, one of the fans seems to sound a little unhealthy, previously when the machine was working hard during gaming you would get a nice smooth Alienware hum, but it sounds like perhaps a fan is loose. It's a kind of rough spinning sound or perhaps could be likened to some cheap HP desktop playing a CDR. Not sure how to describe it.
I've opened the machine up and cleaned it (I usually do this every two weeks any way) and made sure that all the connections are in securely.
Anybody got any ideas? I suspect the graphics card, but not sure. Problem started about 4 months ago.
I'm not exactly a genius when it comes to plugging/unplugging devices and hardware but any ideas on the fault would be great.
Cheers,
Hels!
So I'm new here and have been trawling the internet for ages to find a fault which matches my current issue but to no avail.
I have had an Aurora for three years now and at least once a day it crashes once, sometimes twice, but then seems to run fine after a hard shutdown from the machines power button, then restarting normally after being told windows was not shut down correctly.
The crash usually happens within 10 - 15 mintues of starting the machine. If I am playing a game, it will freeze and you get a constant drone from the speakers like it can't stop playing the last sound before the crash and I get either a blank screen or an Olive screen with white lines across. Sometimes it will just crash and the screen freezes (on desktop for instance, with no mouse response).
The lights at the front flash red-orange-yellow constantly in either case.
At first I attributed it to Windows trying to install an update. I noticed that it would try to install an update every night and take about 20 minutes to shutdown, there was an update everyday which I thought odd, so I turned off automatic updates and things went well for a day or two before the crashes started again.
The other odd thing was that the machine would crash when I was using a particular tank on WOT, so I avoided playing that tank and used others, again, that worked fine until the machine decided that it didn't like not crashing and now crashes randomly on whatever tank I play.
Also now, one of the fans seems to sound a little unhealthy, previously when the machine was working hard during gaming you would get a nice smooth Alienware hum, but it sounds like perhaps a fan is loose. It's a kind of rough spinning sound or perhaps could be likened to some cheap HP desktop playing a CDR. Not sure how to describe it.
I've opened the machine up and cleaned it (I usually do this every two weeks any way) and made sure that all the connections are in securely.
Anybody got any ideas? I suspect the graphics card, but not sure. Problem started about 4 months ago.
I'm not exactly a genius when it comes to plugging/unplugging devices and hardware but any ideas on the fault would be great.
Cheers,
Hels!