m17x r2 - problems

i got it yesterday 17 740 6 gigs ram 15870 card.It looks pretty,but it runs like crap.I cant get more than 15 fps in mw2 and its worse in other games.My m17 thats 2 yrs old runs bettar than this.I have tried every suggestion on this board.throttlestop which doesnt stop anything.setfsb does nothing because it still throttles down.very dissapointed and am returning it.Hopefully they do away with this speed stepping crap in their next series.

 

Stealth mode? Something is obviously wrong if it runs slower than your 2 year old M17.

 

This. I guarantee you are in Stealth mode.

 

Yeah. That setup will max out MW2 dude. You've got something not set up correctly.

Make sure you're not in Stealth Mode.
Make sure you're on the High Performance power setting.
Go into Catalyst Control Center and Make sure all of the sliders under '3D' are to the far LEFT accept for Catalyst AI and Mip Mapping.
Make sure you're plugged in to external AC power (duh).

Next time please run a search as this topic has been covered 647,983,615 times. And you can avoid being flamed too.

 

It was the memory sticks i swapped them with 2-2gig kingston hyperx sticks i have.It runs like it should now.I do see now that it is a preety sick laptop.Ill call alienware monday and see what they will do to make things right.thanks for all your replies.

 

i ran 3dmark 06 i got 6,000 earlier now with new memory i got just under 13,000 big difference

 

how did you even track down tthat it was the memory?

 

Glad that you sorted it out.Hope you enjoy your beast.

Cheers,

 

i tried everything else it was just a last chance kind of thing.I had the sticks laying around so i gave them a try.

 

Hmm... glad you got your problem resolved. But still it's not acceptable for AW. Call 'em up and give them a complaint, maybe they'll send you some new sticks so you won't need to waste your extra pair of hyper-x ram.

 

Sure it was buddy, sure it was. Like the other guy said, it's the stealthmode button.

 

If the problem was memory, almost everything..if not EVERYTHING, should be crawling as well. This includes bootup, general startup/shutdown of apps, games, etc. Glad you found the problem.

 

Yep I had a RAM problem last times too. Every single time I would boot up the system it would randomly BSOD on me. Also sometimes I would be able to boot in however 15 mins later BSOD oles. Same every single time oles.
I ran the dell diagnostics test and it came up with a RAM error so I got my RAM changed oles.

Cheers.

 

Lol, definatrely agree with the others memory suggestions. I'm assuming you removed each stick and tested 1 stick at a time through windows diagnostics memory tests? And each stick in each dimm to rule out a bad dimm slot? It was stealth mode. 100%. Kinda like saying , This car is broke because it won't go forward, but you have to know that you need to hit the gas...

 

I saw somthing was wrong when I saw the topic . . glad it was not the M17xR2

 

... or in this case to remove the "stealth" brick underneath the pedal, blocking the gas pedal to move.

What *might* have happened is that stealth mode got turned off while he was replacing RAM, because the battery was probably out for quite a bit.

 

If I accidentally hit the Stealth Mode button, I get a prompt. It doesn't just go into Stealth Mode. This being said, how is it the reason the most new threads are created here? Is there some other way Stealth Mode is enabled besides the button that gives a PROMPT?

 

In my case, it was not the problem in enabling it, but disabling it. Which actually required the power drain.

 

And he stirs the Mac pot! Way to go faiz! The ram would also cause more problems than just a slow down if there was something legitimately wrong with it, gotta be the stealth mode. Maybe you should download Wattos stealth mode indicator to help ya out there bud. Makes it a little more easy for ya just a simple red or green alienhead.

 

Man Dell needs to get rid of this "stealth" mode it causes more problems then it's worth .

 

the op resolved the issue and this thread should be closed

 

cant believe threads still going.Im sorry you dont believe it was the memory,but it was.I didnt touch anything else except memory change when system started working correctly.It was not in stealth mode.I didnt run any checks on bad memory,ill call alienware monday and try to get them replaced.

 

Dude its your thread and your problem... if you could solve it (no matter how) well and good.... I really dont see the point in continuing this thread...

 

Some users are new to the M17x, like me. I have no clue what this Stealth mode is at this point in time. My M17x won't arrive til next week. I think this thread is useful

Edit: Links in regard to Stealth mode for the new people who can't be bother to search

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/463382-stealth-mode-indicator-9.html#post6589020

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/475136-stealth-mode-m17x-r2-windows-7-a.html

 

Well there are many other threads explaining stealth mode like you posted..... and the threads title is completely misleading... and also the op solved his prob... that apparently wasnt coz of stealth...

 

So yesterday it wont boot to desktop, it dould start then just black screen.i got it into safe mode and ran diagnostic it came back bad memory. I then swapped sticks, tried one at a fime still nothing.i then did a system restore from a point the day before. It then booted fine to desktop. I ran diagnostic again and it came back ok. Any ideas what this is all about?

 

bad mobo?



As for stealth mode I accidently unplugged mine before it was finished shutting down and then it got stuck in some sort of super stealth mode which took a complete reload of windows to fix.