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    Couple of questions while reinstalling windows

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by jcaulley, Sep 25, 2010.

  1. jcaulley

    jcaulley Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know which drivers handle the soft buttons. Mine have stopped working. I was reinstalling windows from scratch, I know they worked at one point because I used the eject button to kick out the windows DVD, and now they have stopped working. Which drivers should I reinstall?

    Also, my M17x is the lunar silver, when I got my computer from Alienware, the picture on AlienFX showed a silver color. Now that I wiped the drive and reinstalled from scratch, AlienFX shows the red cover. Anyone know how to change this back to silver?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    jcaulley, Sep 25, 2010
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  2. Ralo90

    Ralo90 Notebook Consultant

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    the red cover thing is just the newer version of alien fx program, thats normal. the touch buttons though, as far as i know, are not driver driven. maybe a hardware problem? i could be wrong though.
     
    Ralo90, Sep 25, 2010
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  3. Tchamber

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    I think they are powered by the OSD app...at least mine didn't work till I had CC and OSD installed.
     
    Tchamber, Sep 25, 2010
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    OSD is the driver for the touch buttons. Uninstall the command center, install OSD and re-install command center.
     
    Turmoil, Sep 26, 2010
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    Let us know if you do get them working... I have had some trouble with the eject button not working.
     
    The Sand, Sep 26, 2010
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