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Alienware 17 R2, 970M Code 43

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My AW17-R2 4710,970M was thermal throttling on heavy to average load, its 2-3 year old so decided to re paste and I did re paste the CPU and GPU with Arctic MX-4, it worked fine for couple of days, just to check stability of system i ran ADIA for few times and during one test it froze and i had to restart restart, bang BSOD. nvlddmk.sys (page fault in no page area), tried usual trouble shooting and finally a fresh install, BSOD was gone but now i have code 43, although drivers would install fine, system works fine on  integrated graphics i am writing this on the same system. but nvidia control panel would not load and the warning symbol  stays as it is in device manager with code 43. 

 

i have tried almost all the trouble shooting guides but no luck, it points to a HW issue, i am here to know if there is any fix for HW or if there is any thing i am have missed. 

 

i can't afford to upgrade to new system right now, would really appreciate any help that can get this fixed. 

 

thanks in advance.

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code 43 is dead GPU generally

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5 minutes ago, tbk0023 said:

My AW17-R2 4710,970M was thermal throttling on heavy to average load, its 2-3 year old so decided to re paste and I did re paste the CPU and GPU with Arctic MX-4, it worked fine for couple of days, just to check stability of system i ran ADIA for few times and during one test it froze and i had to restart restart, bang BSOD. nvlddmk.sys (page fault in no page area), tried usual trouble shooting and finally a fresh install, BSOD was gone but now i have code 43, although drivers would install fine, system works fine on  integrated graphics i am writing this on the same system. but nvidia control panel would not load and the warning symbol  stays as it is in device manager with code 43. 

 

i have tried almost all the trouble shooting guides but no luck, it points to a HW issue, i am here to know if there is any fix for HW or if there is any thing i am have missed. 

 

i can't afford to upgrade to new system right now, would really appreciate any help that can get this fixed. 

 

thanks in advance.

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Form what I have seen try dduing the drivers again and please check you thermal pads if you put them correctly 

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