The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    M17xR2 arriving today, fresh install?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Kyosukenasai, Jul 14, 2010.

  1. Kyosukenasai

    Kyosukenasai Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    51
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hey guys,

    My M17xR2 is supposedly arriving today, and I'm thinking about doing a fresh install. Are there any tips or quirks with reinstalling M17xR2 drivers etc?

    I am unsure about what drivers to install with regards to the GPU, it has 2x 5870. Do I just grab them off the Dell site or can I install drivers downloaded from ATi?

    It's also coming with 2 HDD in Raid 0 but I was always intending to set them up as one O/S drive and one storage drive. How exactly do I change this in BIOS :?

    Thanks, any other tips / hints are welcome :).
     
    Kyosukenasai, Jul 14, 2010
    #1
  2. alienwolf

    alienwolf Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    492
    Messages:
    1,376
    Likes Received:
    17
    Trophy Points:
    56
    yes there are, do your home work drivers should be installed in a certain order. Back up everything, I would put it on a USB or CD the back up on the HD will be over written and you will lose it and the extras wallpaper ect. :eek: I would play with it out of the box, there is no blot on the OS only what you need. So unless your into tweaking everything I would try it stock, Just my thought. :cool:
     
    alienwolf, Jul 14, 2010
    #2
  3. Kyosukenasai

    Kyosukenasai Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    51
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Okay thanks, well I reinstalled everything anyway lol, prefer to start fresh.

    Just a note to anyone out there wanting to do the same, you have to enter the raid config by pressing control + i I think, and then disable raid, then go ahead and install your OS.
     
    Kyosukenasai, Jul 14, 2010
    #3
  4. alienwolf

    alienwolf Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    492
    Messages:
    1,376
    Likes Received:
    17
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Glade it worked out and you didnt lose anything :cool:
     
    alienwolf, Jul 14, 2010
    #4