*OFFICIAL* Alienware M17x Owners Lounge - Part 2

Right now, any blu Ray burner is expensive

 

anyone tried the 195.55 drivers? works fine for me except idle temps are really high.. idle around 58 degrees compared to the usual 43 degrees




edit: for some reason my secondary card is hotter than my primary in idle. the more amazing thing is that my secondary card now doesnt downclock during idle while my primary does! which is so unusual. the cards have swapped roles?


edit 2: nvm saw batboy's blog on the driver.. guess its a driver problem. is there anyway to import the sli profiles from the 195.55 driver into an older driver? dell's 186.64 works really nice for me

 

Looks like the driver switched them. Just a matter of changing which pcie bus is assigned as parent and daughter

 

Yes there is. Forum Rules are in effect of course, so I can't link to it.

 

its ok.. i found the patch on ur m17x blog works great for the 186.64 by dell.

for me the 186.64 is the best driver of all ive tried.. highest benches and in game performances.

the temps are really low too

 

AND it is supported by Dell, which is always a plus (and means it is guaranteed to work)

 

hi guys!
this is going to be the second time they remplace the motherboard.
i am wondering how patient should i be with this, how many time do i let them try to fix it before i go nuts? i has only been 3 month since the order was shipped from dell, i think this is ridiculous want would you guys do?

 

Ask for another computer. And press for a bonus too. You will probably get it.

 

yes i hope so it would be good...

 

I got a question.

I remember one of the guys with an M17 had a setup where he had 2 HD Monitors connected to the M17 at the same time, but his laptop was closed of course.

Can we have this setup with the M17x? Turn off the laptop monitor or close the laptop and have 2 dual external monitors on it? If it's possible I will do that. It's not like the M17x's screen is top notch.

 

I agree. m17x screen sucks donkey balls...real bad.

 

Yeah. Having 2 Ultrasharp Dell's would be awesome, along with a nice external keyboard. That would be a setup worth taking a picture of.

But the monitors I want are $499 a piece. Might as well get a QX9300 instead of 1 monitor lol. No. I want the monitors, but could probably do well with another type of monitor. I don't believe a lot of external 1920x1200 monitors are worse than the M17x's LCD.

 

I have been loving my 2 FHD 2400's so far

When I sell my desktop though I am going to sell a monitor as well, only need one for use with the M17x

 

Apologies to everyone,

I obtained my M17x today (finally) and a bit of an oddity, 4gb ram only 3.75 usable, i remember seeing this in this thread before but can't seem to find it again.

any assistance would be great

 

Disable the 9400M G ( Hybrid Graphics & Integrated Graphics - both disabled) in the BIOS and check again

 

Batboy - does this mean then that it will no longer use the 9400m g?
ie. if i start on battery it will not use the 9400m g??

 

Correct. The 9400M G will be disabled. This is responsible for your missing memory - the 9400M G uses system memory.

 

it gets 256 MB dedicated to it, thus the deficit, if you boot on battery the bios will stop and tell you it enabled the 9400m, which you will have to then disable to use the discretes on battery - you have to force it

 

i want to see if there is a new motherboard revision out.
use cpu-z and go to about. then go to valitadate. then go to submit. this should pop up


the circle part is what is important.

 

Just to throw it out there. I have the same issue, but will take the 9400 over the .25GB RAM anyday. Therefore, I haven't disabled it. .25GB is not a lot really. Unless you are running out of RAM, of course.

 

It says NB & SB which is odd. Getting my replacement system today so it should be the latest and greatest.

 

Everest Ultimate (Full Version) reports the same as do a few others (HWinfo32).

We were discussing this in another thread several days back - I'll have to look for it. @nickbarbs - you remember this one??

 

Hey, no the thread I remember was trying to read Radeon GPU temps and that Everest was causing my PC to completely freeze - wasn't involved with other discussions.

We had to turn off Crossfire, then load Everest, then re-enable crossfire

 

i had the 9400m enabled in that one. so it might help.

 

Ok, I found the thread. Aikimox had created a thread to discuss 9400M G/MCP79 temps. During this discussion we discovered the rev.b label. See page 3 and forward.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=432142&page=3

Feel free to add to the thread. At this point I belive the best guess is there are two sensors incorporated into the MCP79 which are producing the two readings.

 

Heads-up to all... GPU-Z has been updated to 0.3.7. Warning: running this app caused a hard shutdown on my system.

I opened up GPU-Z and noticed the clocks were not showing correctly on the sensor tab. It was locked @ default clocks and not downclocking. After several seconds the sensors tab began to display the downclock/proper reading.

I then opened up a second instance of GPU-Z to have the first display GPU# 1 and intended to have the second instance display GPU#2. Clicking on the second instance sensor tab produced a hard shutdown, screen blanked and laptop powered off instantly. Yikes

Back to GPU-Z 0.3.6 for me as it does not produce a hard shutdown.

 

Thanks for discovering this batboy! Funny how when it prompted me to download the update I just went, "meh", and closed it. Good thing I avoided the she-devil of an update

 

Hello again, thanks for the information about the 9400, and yeah i'll prolly keep it since its quite helpful when running on battery alone.

The only concern i have is that while plugged in, installing apps and attempting to do stuff, even the initial start up, the laptop will....

the only way i can think to put it is that it locks up, and this is for 10-15mins at a time, it will just lock up and do nothing, if i wait the 15 mins it will get back to what it was doing but thats just stupid, so any ideas as to why it does this and/or how to fix it

 

Anyone had the problem with that graphics application, that sets all graphics for your games, messing up your games? Ever since I installed it, and since uninstalled it ive been getting weird laggy/crap graphics bits in my games where I move like I am covered in molasses. Anyone else had that problem?

 

Hey just a thought, go to this website http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm and download their drive fitness test, see if anything crops up. If your HDD fails you may need to get a replacement.

Also looked on the web, one guy suggested turning off/on your active desktop and see if that helps, or refreshing it.

Does it just freeze on the desktop or while surfing/playing games as well?

 

Not rocking any active desktop, just a static wallpaper.

Haven't tested out the HDD yet will try that in a little bit.

So far it has been freezing when installing new software.

 

anyone still getting micro stuttering in sli with cod mw2? im on BB's 186.82 and i dont his quick fix that can fix stuttering but i still get it =s

 

would a problem with the shadow volume affect that? I'm not sure...possibly check to make sure that it is working properly. Have you been having this problem since you received your comp or just recently?

 

so i checked the hdd looks to be nothing wrong, had these problems since getting the laptop its been about 3 days now since i first got it, also after more use its not just when i install, it is randomly even while using the comp, surfing the net, checking out settings, using msn

 

Had this same problem when installing windows on my SSD. I ended up upgrading the firmware and everything started working again. This is probably an issue with your drive. Try reinstalling windows (ugh) to see if it works, but definitely call support

 

yeah I had the same issue. Call support this is probably your disk drive acting up.

 

could anyone help me ?

everytime I turn on my laptop on batery, it tells me it will switch to integrated but as soon as im in windows, all it does is turn off hybrid, so both cards are working but cant switch... anyone know how i can disable this "feature" ?

 

Have you tried looking in the BIOS?

 

absolutely, but i dont see which setting would change it.

 

i have posted the settings using nhancer . people who tried confirmed 60fps all the time without lagging.

 

@nickbarbs - so whats the solution? firmware update or replace the HDD all together?

and what should i say to support when i call them? just give them the symptoms and/or inform them that i need a new HDD?

 

I wouldnt say its a firmware update. So I am going with HDD replace. Call em up and tell them what your symptoms are and say that you need a new HDD. Since you have had this computer for only a few days it is unacceptable performance parameters for the machine!!! Give em hell mate =).

 

Hey mate try here, http://4help.alienware.com/cgi-bin/...nRlZ3JhdGVkIGdyYXBoaWNzPw**&p_li=&p_topview=1 ...this may help fix your problem! walks you through a few different scenarios of what you wish to do with your graphics card.

 

thanks for the link mate, I already tried all that, I'm sure its not a problem since it actually tells me what it's gonna do, it must be some kind of setting I gotta find

 

war may i hav yer alienhead wallpaper? the one with the aw invasion heads.

 

Sure thing man.

 

thx alot man

 

Niice. Another addition to add to my collection. Thanks

 

This is most excellent, my M17x arived on thanksgiveing day! So I can now stuff my face and play games, what more could I ask for! I plan on taking out the T9600 and incerting that in my M17 and putting the Q9300 in the 17x

 

turn your flux-capacitor off and join us, it's the day before Thanksgiving.