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When I boot this 5 year old computer I see the Alienware BIOS splash screen forever. I tried hitting F12 (and F2 and F8 and ...) repeatedly right after turning on but I can't get into the BIOS. I tried a different hard drive and a different memory chip. Always the same, infinite Alienware splash...

I have an M17x R1 with dual sli 260M cards and QX9300 processor. Probably the most buggy thing I have ever owned. I have currently installed 314.07 nvidia drivers on it but this doesn't seem to be necessarily related to the issue I am having....as I have tried the older official drivers too back...

Okay, so I bought an M17x R1 a few years back and it's probably the worst best thing I have ever bought. I have ditched so many hours trying to solve technical problems that really Dell and Nvidia should have solved but have decided they don't give a **** about so I am stuck with them instead. I...