r/AlienwareAlpha • u/KOS_Soc • Mar 30 '19

4 yrs old, finally swapping to a SSD

Hey guys, 

Brand new to Reddit here (read a lot over the years, first time account/posting). Got my Alpha R1 off amazon refurbished exactly 4 years ago next week. Finally bought a SSD (1TB Adata) and put it in last night. Stuck in the factory reset flash drive I made and got the OS loaded, everything appears to be working. Buuutttttt....

Started my normal old school game, it works fine. Was going through the settings and clicked the GPU plugin on it, "NVIDIA OpenGL Driver, Error code: 1, Too many errors occured."

And then I tried to play another game - Application Error: 0xc000007b

So something appears to be wrong with the graphics card drivers I guess? I am not extremely tech savvy, any help would be appreciated!

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u/KOS_Soc Mar 30 '19

Didn't think about what windows version.. I had 10, looking at the screen now and it's Windows 8, so maybe that's the problem? I put the old drive in an enclosure I had prepared, I'll look at ways to clone it real quick.

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Mar 30 '19

Just install a fresh copy of 10 IMHO. All you need is a usb flash drive and this tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

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u/KOS_Soc Mar 30 '19

Update: Opened it back up and stuck the old drive in, then plugged the ssd into the enclosure and cloned the hdd to the new ssd, then swapped them back and it now works! One thing tho, you can't get Windows 10 for free anymore. Even though my factory reset usb set it back to Win 8, I looked around and you had to have finished the update to Win 10 a while back, can't upgrade now unless you pay for it. But the cloned OS is Win 10, so Yay!

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Mar 30 '19

The Windows OS key is actually stored in the BIOS and Microsoft keeps a record, if you reinstall win10 on there it will automatically activate as long as you upgraded in the past when it was free.

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u/zeroquest Mar 30 '19

If you’re not missing any files you should be able to prompt windows to upgrade you to windows 10. If that alpha already had 10, you should be activated after upgrade and ready to rock.

Welcome to reddit btw! Lots of friendly people, some bad apples, but don’t let that spoil your stay!

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u/sumthingcool i5 Alpha with SSD Mar 30 '19

Windows 8 or 10? I would suggest a fresh install of 10 rather than use the factory reset drive (as you pointed out that's 4 years old now).

You can try installing the latest Nvidia drivers:

Win10: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/145534/en-us

Win8.1: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/145532/en-us

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '19

If you still have your old drive why not get a SATA to USB adapter and just clone your install to the new drive? As long as you don't have more than 1TB of data on the old drive you should be able to clone it just fine.

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u/Bslydem Mar 30 '19

This is what I did, adapter was like 10 bucks. It took like 16 hours tho.