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    M17X R2 Upgrade Help

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by jopring, Apr 22, 2012.

  1. jopring

    jopring Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, I'm fairly new to tinkering with computers/hardware so I figured I'd request assistance from more experienced vets here. I have an M17X-R2 that I'm fairly certain I've messed up a little from flashing bios and other such things incorrectly. I would like to replace the HDD that came with my laptop with an SSD for OS and a larger 1TB HDD for data storage. My question is, will I need to redownload and install bios, vbios, etc when I do this? If so (which I'm suspecting), could anyone link to me or tell me a checklist of all the drivers/etc I'll need to install?

    i7 720m
    xFire 5870s
    4GB DDR3
    500GB & 500GB Momentus XT

    Thanks for any help. It's very much appreciated!
     
    jopring, Apr 22, 2012
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    No, BIOS and vBIOS is completely separate from OS. You'll need to reinstall Windows and all appropriate drivers. When I reinstalled the OS on my R2 recently, it did not find the video and the Intel 6300 card.
     
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    jopring Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you for the clarification. In that case, is there any way to completely wipe my laptop and start with a "clean slate" in terms of the bios? I would like to redo the entire thing from scratch.
     
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    jopring Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you for the link!
     
    jopring, Apr 22, 2012
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