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    long lasting big problem with alienwareM17x oS windows 7 64 bit

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by sencor11, Sep 9, 2012.

  1. sencor11

    sencor11 Newbie

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    Hi u r my onhly hope or help!!!!!!!I have alienware M17x and i have a problem with FX controller that my laptop can not detect on my system?I have accidentaly whipped HDD and my respawn disk got lost so i do not have chance to recover my lost data??I stay in Europe right now and up here they do not know anything about alienware laptop.Ihave tried to reinstal OS many times,nothing worked???Still unknown device in usb section and icon of FX controller still has red eyes instead of green i have 10 different people checking my laptop up nobody can help or figure out how to fix that or recover my alienware respawn???Before when i had that respawn on my system i had tried that to get this issue fixed did not work either????So i have downloaded alienware basic and i have tried to instal that on my system once i got a message disc full and second time i have changed instalation directory it was installing alienware basic in half of instalation i got message cancelled instalation by user???I did not touch anything i let that go and still can not get respawn to my system i have been trying to solve this over a year no luck????I was trying to instal your alienware windows 7 and i was hoping that will help me out at least to get respawn to my system,but the problem is this is a trial version and i can not find a product key ??????PLEASE<PLEASE HELP ME IAM SO DESPERATE !!!!!I know it is illegal but u r my only hope.Iam not familiar with those laptops and iam completely lost PLEASE HELP,Thank you and god bless you for you kindness iS it going to help if i buy a new HD disk??Is it going to have respawn installed on that new HD disk????? [email protected]
     
  2. SVOShark

    SVOShark Notebook Consultant

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    Search your service tag on the Dell site, get all the drivers for your system. It should fix the issue. The better idea would be to contact Dell support and order a new recovery DVD for your system.
     
  3. CptXabaras

    CptXabaras Overclocked, Overvolted, Liquid Cooled

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    Alienware-Natalia_J Company Representative

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