M17x Drivers thread

If outdated lemme know and ill get around to it
Mods feel free to add drivers that work


*Driver installation ORDER*

Applications

Command Center
6/2/09


Command center v1.0.7 Released 7/8/2009


OSD Application
09/18/2009

BIOS

BIOS
8/28/09

Audio

Audio driver
7/30/09

Audio v1.12.03 Released 7/8/2009

Audio v 6.10 Released 7/30/09


nVidia MCP79 Chipset

Chipset Driver
6/2/09

Chipset Driver v2.03
7/27/09

Ricoh R5C833
6/2/09


Webcam

Webcam driver
6/2/09

CIR Receiver

IR reciever
6/2/09

WIFI

Wifi Driver
6/30/09

Touch Pad


Touchpad


Bluetooth

Bluetooth driver
6/3/09

AVer MEDIA TV TUNER

TV Tuner Driver
6/3/09


Alienware Tactx keyboard
.....



GPU Drivers

GTX 280m
06/11/09

GTX 260m
06/11/09

Beta Driver

186.12
HERE
( was a pain in the butt to get the link )

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 A01 8.635 WHQL driver for Vista & Win7 64b

Release Date: 10/23/2009
File Size: 103 MB

Vista 64/Win 7:
ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/video/R237788.exe

Lemme kno if i missed something

 

Don't forget YouCam, Nero, and McAfee Although they're aren't drivers.... just adware.

 

ugh Moo....you had to name it Dellware....
it is still an AW unit, even if dell owns them now....

edit: GabeZ, you want me to remove your thread from the main page or will you also add to that one?

 

it distinguishes it

 

Blame dell... area-51 m17x and M17x... What a idea...

 

What's on the case?

Alienware or Dell?

 

this is NBR not Dell and unless i get paid like they do i will not list it

 

Are these drivers the latest ones compared to what you get on the alienware disc? Also, a few are not working which are OSD app and Ricoh R5C833. Thanks for setting this up.

 

how are they not working ?

these are the only ones out

 

opps i copied the image location not link location

 

fantastic Moo, +rep

 

FIXED the broken links

 

What's your ESD moo?

 

you mean my Delivery date?

humm 12 days from now , ill be having my BABY

 

all this work for Ya'll and I don't even have it !!!!!

 

Nope. your ship date (which is in your confirmation email).

 

cool they worked, thanks. I was under the impression these were updated over the disc version that we have.

 

about 23 days from now

really will be 12-14 insider knowledge FTW

 

well i don't make these things.....don't get paid ... i just put them here so that people that have to
A leave NBR

B Have to go through 10 pages to find them

 

I like your new sig....you should get paid just add a paypal link in your sig.

 

it is not allowed by forum rules

but if you really wanna.... that q9200 is looking nice.....just need a little money ...

 

lol. I'm trying to come up with a reason to go with a different dual core. Didn't someone buy the T9900? I thought I saw a post before someone got one.

 

Mandrake if you're really looking for a new dual try a P9700. Moo's too scared to.

 

Why the P9700?

 

the lower TDP....

he thinks im to scared i think im to broke

 

Well neither the P9700 or the T9900 can be easily found. I am serious about testing out another CPU. I might put my P8700 back in over the weekend to test that out more. What ever I don't like I sell to Moo.

 

Yeah, I am stoked that the P8600 hit 3GHz

 

lets hope its a really good deal lol

 

Of course....

 

Did you plan on upgrading it or keeping it since it is OC'ing nicely?

It seems nothing has gone above 3.33Ghz. Probably a voltage limitation in the system. I'm guessing that's why the T9900 and the x9100 aren't available for this system. CPUgenie is a voltage tool I will probably play with also this weekend.

 

Yeah I want to know if a P9700 can get the same gains as a P8600 because of it's lower TDP. With .53Ghz the P9700 would OC as fast as your X9100 OC.

They were just officially introduced on the 2nd so I don't expect to see the P9700 and T9900 for sale retail yet but Intel lists them at $348 and $530 in 1K lots.

 

I was planning on getting the QX9300 but if this proc is running fabulous right now.

So, no rush for me at this point

 

don't play this weekend MAN! Do it now for all of us

 

Work always gets in the way. Gotta go to bed soon. Weekend I have more time.

 

graphics drivers issue: for 280M SLI, using vista 64 bit...

the drivers on the dell page are 175.85. i already downloaded the 186.03 from nvidia but in the New M17x driver issue thread, the first post mentions installing the 186.18. the nvidia drivers download page only shows the .03. any idea where to get the .18 from? i don't see an option/checkbox for beta drivers, but i know i've seen it elsewhere on nvidia's site before.

EDIT 1: okay, found the 186.18 drivers using google. they didn't show up earlier coz they're for the desktop gpu's. will give it a shot.

EDIT 2: okay, not going to use the 186.18 drivers coz they're for windows7 and kqmaverick is using win7.

will proceed with 186.03.

 

ok...my screen has gone off. been off for about 10 minutes.

8 hrs after getting it, i guess i'm going to be using AW re-spawn? great!

hard-rebooted (power button for 5-8 seconds). when windows started up, the welcome screen was completely messed up. negative colours and black refresh lines along the middle etc.

the 186.03 drivers without using a modified .inf file say "cannot find devices..." when the black nvidia setup screen comes up.

edit: attached screenshot of 186.03 driver setup error.

 

you have to disable the 9400m and hybrid support to get other drivers to install

 

Dox 182.46 so far are the best drivers but like Moo said they don't support hybrid setups.

 

@Mandrake: when u say don't support hybrid setups u mean not SLI + integrated drivers installed at once? that's fine with me if it optimizes the SLI 280M's.

@Mr./The_Moo: disable in bios or in device manager? in the bios, if i disable the integrated and then enable hybrid, the integrated goes to enabled and grey. should i still disable hybrid? (and have SLI?)

EDIT: if disable via device manager and not bios, should i disable before or after uninstalling the existing drivers? right now, when i unistall the "driver and software" for one of the 280s, all 3 disappear.

 

Aneroid what OS are you using? nvrm says in your sig... unless you are using the W7 RC?

Either way the only way at this point to select which GPU set you want to use it to select it via use of the Bios...

 

using vista home premium 64 bit. i've already disabled hybrid and tried the drivers, those didn't work.

right now, getting the dox's drivers...

will post on how that goes.

 

That's a correct statement. See the benchmark thread for some results.

 

YAY! finally got working SLI. can see an immediate improvement in graphics at least for GTA IV. hopefully, will have the same effect in all the games.

fyi...the SLI indicator now doesn't show in minesweeper but does show in gta. and i have hot-back-ends on both sides of the laptop...so yeah, they're both definitely on.

someone, pls thank Dox for me!

edit: [start:incorrect] for the others who are reading this, pls note...no PhysX and hybrid support in the driver. but if there is some game that really really uses PX, can always switch drivers/reboot.[end:incorrect]

@Mandrake +1 rep coming your way

 

Thanks. There is Physx support. With the Dox drivers you can turn it on and off unlike the Dell drivers. I show the difference in Vantage in the benchmark thread.

 

ah, i was wondering about that. coz i saw enable/disable in the nv control panel and thought it should just be left disabled. edited that post so no one misunderstands it later.

 

Now go to the benchmark thread and show some results.

Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to myself in that thread. lol.

 

Hi all

I just received my new m17x love it

However I would like to update my drivers etc...

But erm... this is really weird... (first laptop I ever own lol)

should I download all of the drivers given here?

how should I install them, is it just like install (setup.exe) blablabla?

another thing is I am having some internet issues, on my lastxp desktop i am downloading drivers at 300KB /s

on Vista ultimate 64bit I am downloading at 10 >.<

Anyone would be so kind to gief me some heads up, on what i should do?

Thanks you

 

just download the driver from here ( its actually linked to Dell)

click run and your Good

 

the first link is not working for me...

 

nevr mind looks like they removed the BETA drivers ill go check it out