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    XTU brick motherboard

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by XGIII, Oct 14, 2016.

  1. XGIII

    XGIII Notebook Guru

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    Hi all,

    I've heard that underclocking with xtu will brick our AW 17.

    Is it true? If yes, is there other software solution to underclock safetly the intel cpu?
     
    XGIII, Oct 14, 2016
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  2. Raidriar

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    Its not XTU's fault....blame Alienware's retarded design to incorporate NVRAM which has a stupid way of being reset. You can recover the soft brick by pulling out your ram sticks, turning on the computer, letting it beep itself out until it restarts. Between that power off and restart, you need to swap in the RAM quickly to clear the NVRAM
     
    Raidriar, Oct 14, 2016
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  3. Ashtrix

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    All machines now have this stupid NVRAM, Clevo laptops also do have it unfortunately (CCC, XTU bug is insane).
    Mr. Fox on AW18
     
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    Thank you @Raidriar and @Ashtrix . So we have to deal with it and reset cmos each time we make bad OC.
     
    XGIII, Oct 15, 2016
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