How to boot M17x without Alien FX on?

I was wondering ho can I boot my laptop without the alien FX on? Ive tried to change the color to black, but it always boots up the default color, green. Help.

 

Have you tried to select "Go Dark" from the little alien head icon to the right of your task bar and booting with that? Not sure whether it will work or not, haven't tried.

 

Yeah, I tried that too. Could re-flashing the bios A05 work or reinstalling alien FX software?

 

So your lights are always the same color at boot, regardless of what you change the configuration to in AlienFX?

 

Cold boot yes. On a warm boot most of the time it is the last color I had set.

 

That doesn't sound right. Might be something wrong with the AlienFXController. When you change lighting color it should be saved to the Controller and carried over.

 

Is this a hardware or software issue? Well the new version of the command center has been released; one of the fixes is communication issues. Im gonna update and see what happens.

 

I wonder if this is related. If I set up an advanced morphing theme, on cold bootup, the speakers, Alienware lettering and the right side of the keyboard aren't lit on my M17x-R2. Once the AlienFX Controller driver loads, everything lights up properly again. I'm using Command Center A06 (2.5.48.0) and BIOS A05, by the way.

I'm pretty sure there is an issue with Command Center and/or the firmware of the AlienFX controller.

 

Seems to be an issue with your controller.

Once you set your color choices those should be written to the FX controller so on Cold boot, reinstall of the os/removal of Command Center the computer will still use the last saved color scheme.

If its not, then there is an issue with the controller and then once CC loads it is overwriting it.

If you upgrade CC it should reflash the controller (hopefully correcting anything wrong with it)

 

Thanks. I updated to CC A06 last Night and it seems to have nearly completely fixed my problem. Colors stay the same on cold boot, but if I turn it off it turns it on on cold boot; it immediatly shuts off though once I log in.

 

This is what I'd do.
Set up a theme for watching movies and name it something like 'watching movies'
Set up the FX with everything shut off except for a dark dark blue touch button panel steady no morph or the like. To shut them off select black in color.
Save that theme.
When you are going to watch a movie load the 'watching movie ' theme first, then watch your movie.
When you are done revert back to a previous theme for computing..

Simple.