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.

    REplacement Mobo

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by paradigm, Jul 12, 2011.

  1. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    202
    Messages:
    1,127
    Likes Received:
    54
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Guys..Dell..and alienware have become the bane of my existence...and i do mean that literally....i mean i will !@#!@#!#....this is my 3rd laptop 2nd new order in 3 months....

    the Rt speakers sounds "fluttery" (i am not audiophile so i dont know how to describe a blown spkr)
    the USB port (which i hadnt taken notice of till now) seems to not work..this is the 2nd USB from the DVD ROM and its that one only...... so out of the 3 USB2.0 ports (one with ESATA) and 2 USB 3.0's ,one isolated USB2.0 port is not working....connect anything into it and it says USB not recognized....(thumb drive, Zalman's NB cooler+hub, samsung laser printer...headset...) nothing detects or works on that USB port alone....it just sez device unrecognised...no drivers manual or otherwise fix this....

    now my question to you all is

    can this be fixed ?
    i have removed,and rebooted drivers in device manager

    because after talking to Dell TEch...they have said since this appears to be an isolated IO problem...we will need to replace the mobo.... i mean all of this on a 2week (and some days ) laptop....i am concerned (after all the horror stories here...and none from AU) that these yobos (in rural QLD) are not going to be as "thorough" as a factory jobm might be...and since i will be travelling even further into rural outback with this laptop.......i am afraid..that if the work isnt upto scratch then......


    this leads me to the last qs....hypothetically if i allow the mobo to be replaced (as advised by you fine folks) will my existing HDDs on RAID0 seamlessly work in the new motherboard (i have ZILCH experience with RAID before this...thus the NOOBIE qs.)
     
    paradigm, Jul 12, 2011
    #1
  2. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    202
    Messages:
    1,127
    Likes Received:
    54
    Trophy Points:
    66
    PS the tech support is scheduled to come to my house on Thursday.......please help me
     
    paradigm, Jul 12, 2011
    #2
  3. kevinmajere

    kevinmajere Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    24
    Messages:
    121
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Well, when the tech arrives, watch him like a hawk. Not all techs are bad, but in the North Carolina area where I live, they seem to be.... lacking something upstairs.

    Let the tech do what he needs to do, but sit there with him and watch him, if he does something to the system you don't like (i.e: throw new parts, mishandle new parts, screwdrivers to pry parts, mismatch screws, stripp screws) you can call him out on it before anything major bad happens.

    This is your INVESTMENT! Protect it!

    Raid 0 should work fine in the new mobo, think default setting is raid and not AHCI mode. Also he is putting in the extact same board, so I don't see a problem.
     
    kevinmajere, Jul 12, 2011
    #3
  4. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    202
    Messages:
    1,127
    Likes Received:
    54
    Trophy Points:
    66
    yup the default setting is RAID 0 , i was under the impression RAID 0 systems queried the exact ver. and type of chip....and that perhaps one RAID array may not be compatible with a different PC (but same hardware)...

    all of this cuz i didn't really want to open my PC till i planned to get a SSD sometime in next year..and well....alll of this....sheesh
     
    paradigm, Jul 13, 2011
    #4