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I'm working on getting a Huawei Matebook X Pro to display on 2 1080P monitors with HDMI/DP connections. I have been having some difficulty confirming which docking stations will work for this? I've heard the Dell TB16 is recommended but can't find anything stating that it will power 2 external monitors. Has anyone tried and had success with this? Can you let me know what docking station you used/recommend? Thanks in advance!

I'll return it if it fails the clean install or if I can't get the GPU to behave after reinstalling. It has a solid state for boot and an HDD as secondary storage. I'm guessing that's what's making the noise as my standard HDD Dell at work makes the same noise if you hold the power button down. I really hope nothing is failing in this thing though. I've wanted an Alienware for like 10 years but couldn't justify the cost, so this is depressing for me lol.

I got my alienware 15r3 with a gtx 1070 about a month ago. Everything was fine and dandy until about a week ago, the screen brightness wouldn't change. I didn't get around to looking into it till last night. I was doing some research and found some others had the same issue when Windows 10 forced the driver update to an Nvidia driver that had an issue with brightness adjustment. The forums I saw said just rollback the driver. I didn't have a driver to rollback to so I went out and found older driver editions under Nvidia's 10 series for notebooks driver sections. Picked one that was two verisons back from the current release and installed it. It seemed to be alright and restarted to finalize the install but to no avail. I still couldn't change the screen brightness. In hindsight I think I should probably have gone through Dell to get the driver but anyway now to the current issue. When I realized the older driver didn't fix the original issue, I decided to reboot once more to make sure it hadn't missed anything. Instead of going back to Windows, it went to a preboot hardware testing screen. It passed it's tests and asked what I wanted to do. I tried to get it to continue booting to Windows, it went dark like it was restarting and then the alienware logo appeared for a few seconds and then the computer did what I'd describe like a hard shut down. Like those shutdowns when you can here the HDD needle click over. I eventually got to the Windows troubleshooting screen and tried to reset the PC. It started the process but on the re installation of Windows, it did that hard shut down again at like 55% and then rebooted to say it had encountered an error and that resetting wouldn't work. I then tried to get into safe mode, but after hitting the advanced option in windows troubleshooting to get the window that gives the option to go to safe mode it would do that hard shutdown and just go back of the beginning options of Windows Troubleshooting. At this point, I plan on attempting to do a clean install of Windows 10 but was wondering if anyone else had run into anything like this? If the clean install doesn't work, I'll probably take it back to the store and return it as I'm still in my return period.

It's 3 years old so it's out of warranty.

I suppose that would make sense with the symptoms. Maybe I'll give Linus's baking thing a try hahaha. I'll give it a try in another mobo when I get a chance. Thanks for your help!

What kind of laptop? Any idea of temperatures when this happens? What OS? Make sure your power saving is set to an appropriate setting for what you're doing at the time of using it, and if Windows 10, it isn't set to automatically restart for updates while you're using it.

My gaming pc that I built was working fine for a solid three years. I moved to a new apartment and after the move it suddenly won't come on anymore. I have an Asus M97a5 R2.0 Mobo and a Sapphire R9 270x Dual-X gpu. I think that's where the problem lies but I'm pretty well stuck. I tried to turn it on after the move and now it makes the post beep and then does 1 long beep and 3 short beeps. The monitor doesn't come out of sleep mode so it looks like my GPU isn't working. I took it all out of the case, RAM, GPU, and unplugged everything and then reinstalled it and it did it again. I pulled and reinstalled the RAM in different slots and nothing changed. Then after 4 or 5 tries, without changing anything again, it came back on and worked fine for several hours. I did a soft restart a couple times to make sure it would consistently restart and it came back on like nothing was wrong. I had reset the bios in the process above so my overclock was set back to normal, but everything was working fine. I played some games on it for a couple hours and then did a normal shutdown again. I came back to it today which is about a week later and it's back to not working. Same thing; 1 long beep and then 3 short beeps. All the fans are coming on fine, including the GPU but still no graphics and I can't get it to come back on. Any thoughts? Parts: Mobo: Asus m97a5 R2.0 CPU: AMD FX6300 (Previously OC'd to 4.5GHz) Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO running custom fan curve on afterburner (below 78C during stress testing) GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 270x Dual-X 4GB (Previously OC'd up 100MHz in afterburner, I reset to normal when it began working again. Usually temps around mid 70Cs) Power: Corsair CX600M RAM: GSkill Ares 4GB DDR3-2133 x 2 SSD: Kingston 240GB (boot and program installs) HHD: WesternDigital 1TB (file storage no installs)

That's why you'd have to pay for the first one.

Did you ever watch the videos about how you can just pay apple to fix it, then go and wrap it in a towel while running unigen and eventually apple will just replace it?

Where did you find pricing like that? The cheapest I could find was low $100s but I didn't see it worth it to spend a bunch of money on a laptop I wasn't keeping for long.

You can also download that program for forcing it to use discrete graphics instead of dynamic switching. The other forums I was on mentioned that it isn't necessarily the gpu causing issues but the switching system that causes the kernel panics. The one I did it to still crashes on occasion but is much more reliable and hasn't failed to boot. The software is called GFX Card Status or something like that. A quick google search will turn up lots of results on this.

Also try spelling it wrong on ebay and other sites like that. People sometimes don't spell things correctly and so their auctions never get seen. Check jet.com and places like massdrop.com. Otherwise places like bestbuy will match prices if you find it on another site for less. Good luck

Well I can't seem to figure out how to delete a post and I accidentally posted the last one twice. So this is my change.

@leadeater Perfect, I'm setting up a test machine with ESXi to dig through it and test some it out as we speak! Thanks for your recommendations!

@leadeater Would you recommend using VMware then for that system or one of the others that was mentioned in my original post? In that system run 2 instances of Windows Server 2012; one with DC and the other handling the rest of the server duties? Does having two virtual systems effect how many CALs we need? I think we have extra for expansion purposes but want to make sure I'm all legal.