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    M17x R4 Bios A02 Released

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by bigtonyman, Jul 14, 2012.

  1. bigtonyman

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    Dell Alienware M17x R4 A02 System BIOS

    Fixes:"The Audio codec suddenly dissappear from the device manager and the computer stays without audio device. The issue appears randomly."

    Hope this helps someone :)
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 14, 2012
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    this one is quite old, my r4 came with it :)
    yesterday dell tech here talked about A04 and that bios is on new shipped R4's now.
     
    Xenn0X, Jul 14, 2012
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    oh sorry about my ignorance :rolleyes:
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 14, 2012
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    haha don't be :) the post of dell yesterday was a piece of junk :) says new bios but they also point to A02..
     
    Xenn0X, Jul 14, 2012
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    I've never had a problem like this lol, maybe I received mine with the A02. any idea when a newer BIOS version is going live on the site?
     
    nkdv, Jul 14, 2012
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    Solves the problem of speed of the SSD SATA III?
     
    jack34, Jul 15, 2012
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    They Need To Freakin' Unlock The Vbios!!! I Can't Even Overclock My Gtx 660m! This Is Madnesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
     
    maplingstorie, Jul 15, 2012
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    no Msata still on SATA2 and will not be fixable with bios, the chipset can't handle it.
     
    Xenn0X, Jul 15, 2012
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    Why did you get the 660m? Your system is like having a 4 banger in a high end sports car. If i were you i would get rid of that 660m because really its just an oc'ed 650m. Throw a 7970m in and youll have both overclocking and much better performance. Its really quite odd that you opted for the 3820qm and then got the lowest gpu.
     
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    It's a shame because the SATA III SSD performance is not optimal. :(
     
    jack34, Jul 16, 2012
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    Each to their own ;)
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 16, 2012
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    wasn´t this a problem on the R3 only?

    the R4 has a new chipset, and i doubt they made the same mistake twice?!
     
    mrm2x, Jul 16, 2012
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    I think its just the mSATA that is SATA II. The two hard drive bays are SATA III. As they should be. ;)
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 16, 2012
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    yes but dell manual says Msata should be SATA3 too :) although it's techincally impossible due the chipset..
     
    Xenn0X, Jul 16, 2012
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    Where is Bios A04???
     
    CSHawkeye81, Jul 16, 2012
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    mined shipped with the a04 bios as well, and sadly i just went to an ao2 bios thinking it was the newer one before i read what i had before. anyone have links back to the ao4?
     
    dandan112988, Jul 16, 2012
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    I just got a new M17xR4 last week and I had the A04 BIOS installed. On Sunday I had a problem with my sound card disappearing out of the device manager. I have now installed A02 which is supposed to be the BIOS that fixes this issue. I find it funny that A04 seems to still have the sound card issue. Since I have installed A02 I have not had a single issue with my sound card.
     
    Pythagrean, Jul 16, 2012
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    It seems as though A04 is just an incorrectly named A01 and that A02 is actually newer than "A04".
     
    Eddie12390, Jul 16, 2012
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    Haha I just needed the gtx 660m to play DoTA 2 SMOOTHLY. the vbios disabled kepler's turbo boost. I'm only running at 835Mhz MAX. (with turbo it's 950Mhz). I just need that extra little boost to play my game smoothly :(
     
    maplingstorie, Jul 18, 2012
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    can you guys confirm that the 2 2.5" bays are sata III, ive been searching the interweb as my msata SSD is currently only running at sata II speeds, and im wanting to use this as a caching drive to my 1tb HDD when my new 2.5" SSD arrives.

    kev
     
    kevwiener, Jul 18, 2012
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    Yup they should be. No problems like the r3. ;)

    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 running Resurrection Remix
     
    bigtonyman, Jul 18, 2012
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    sweet thanks bigtonyman :) cant wait for the vertex 4 to arrive should be mucho fun :) just going to use that 64gb msata as a cache drive then sucks that it will be sata II but hey its all good and as i will have that in a raid 0 with the 1 tb that will also run as sata II hey :( oh well should still be pretty rapid :D
    thanks
    kev
     
    kevwiener, Jul 18, 2012
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    i really would like to see some proof, cause in my opinion thats a bold statement...
     
    mrm2x, Jul 18, 2012
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