Alienware M17-R1 Service Manual

Does anyone know where I can find a complete service manual for the Alienware M17-R1?

I bought a certified refurb from Alienware and the entire laptop is in excellent condition except for the front right speaker grill/panel, which is dented. I thought maybe I could just take the machine apart and straighten the panel.

 

Not sure on a complete manual but try Alienware's KB -

Alienware : The Best Custom Built Gaming PC for the Ultimate PC Gamer!

 

Thanks BatBoy. Unfortanatelly I went through and couldn't find it. I probably need to take the panel off somehow (pry or screw, not sure really). I emailed Alienware and will see what they have to say.

 

here you can find the service manual
Alienware: Online Documentation

 

He's looking for the M17 manual (think pre-Dell).

 

upss , my bad I didn't notice the missing x

 

Now if only there was a service manual like the one XIII posted for the M17-R1. Oh well.

 

Thanks XII.. I was looking for these, I want to change my keyboard from english to spanish. I just bought a keyboard on ebay, now I don't know if all keyboards comes with the alienfx lights???

 

not all but there is an aditional ribon cable on those that do and if they don't you can modd them to add light if you feel like it

 

The one I bought comes with a little orange cable.. I guess that's the cable for the light, if not, what modd can I do? take off the lights of my current keyboard and connect them to the non- light keyboard? or something like that?

 

yes the orage keyboaed is it

and yes i was talsing about that yopu can use a hair dryer to make the glue maleable and open it

 

Oh god I hope the keyboard will not need any mod. Is there a way to know if the keyboard comes with a buid in light? you know, before installing it? I have the part number, acording to the seller, this is the part number:

DP/N:0H468R

But I can't find any information about it.

 

you said thekeyboard you ordered had a little orange cable that cable is the led cable if it has it it's alienfx if it don't then it's not

 

Well, this is the link:
NEW Dell Alienware M17X Spanish Keyboard Teclado Spain - eBay (item 280575668321 end time Nov-14-10 01:22:03 PST)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280575668321

So you can see in the pictures it comes with the little orange cable, I hope this is a real picture of the keyboard at least it shows the Ñ key which means the keyboard in the picture is actually a spanish keyboard. I will let you know when the keyboard arrives to my house. Thanks for your help !

 

what laptop do you own?

 

The one in the sign, M17x R1

 

the m17 from dell only has a alienfx keyboard and you should post in the m17 thread

 

Yeah I know is just i searched in google : M17x R1 service manual, and this site appears. And XII posted a wrong link instaed of post the M17 R1 service manual he posted the M17x R1 manual, so I just posted to say thanks to him because I was looking for the service manual to change my keyboard. And I don't know if I am reading you well, but, Are all M17x (R1&R2) keyboards alienfx capable???

 

yes the only one that are ot are the alienware area-51 m17

and also note the alienware area-51 m17x has an alienFX keyboard but it's likely not compatible with your

 

you know I was watching pictures on eBay from area-51 m17x keyboards and M17x keyboards, and I can't really see any difference, just that the area-51 m17x keyboard seems to look a bit darker, but that could be just an effect of picture. Maybe the only difference is the pin connection. I will be praying to get the right keyboard, I was a bit irresponsible not checking full compatibility before buying the keyboard, but the seller marked the keyboard as "M17X keyboard", I forgot we have:

1. area 51 m17x
2. M17x R1
3. M17x R2

I guess R1 and R2 keyboards are compatible, But many sellers marks their keyboards as "area 51 m17x keyboard". So I don't know :s

EDIT: I think the difference between area 51 m17x keyboard and M17x keyboard is the S key, in M17x the S key has 3 little ponts, I cant see that 3 little points in pictures from area 51 m17x keyboards.

 

the pic connextion is prolly not the same

 

granyte, thanks for all your help, today I recieved the keyboard, and it is working great, with alienFX lights and everything, I was lucky about compatibility... I got finally my "Ñ" =)

 

nice nice good to hear

could you do me a favor i'd like to know how the 280 compare to tthe 4850 with the same cpu

 

Sure, no problem, what you want to test??? I have crysis, 3dmark06, 3dmark vantage.. batman AA, but my cpu is @2.26 GHz

 

you oced your quad? would have prefered comparing with the same cpu i'll cheq if mine can oc that far

well a vantage and crysis one would give me what i wan

 

Yes I overclocked my cpu because it were being a bottleneck in Batman AA, Jumped from 36 fps avarage to 44 fps avarage, with only that small overclock, so it worth it.

Here it is 3dmark vantage, with PhysX and PPU disabled.




And here it is Crysis Benchmark tool, I don't know why the avarage fps isn't showing propeerly, but the result is, avarage = 25.54 fps

second test avarage= 25.39 fps

third test avarage = 25.69 fps

(25.39+25.69)/2=25.54 .....

But the benchmark is missing the dot.

 

wow these card are almost identical the vantage score is 2 point from mine (with my cpu oced to almost the same speed)

and the crysis to is 1 fps diferent when i oc the cpu


i can't do a run to compare as my gpu are curently oced so it would not be fair but i'll back them down and oc my cpu to have these side by side to compare

thanks

 

Sure, I will be waiting those stock benchmarks. I never tried to overclock the GPU so far no need to do that, I am not exactly a benchmark person .. and most of games run smooth without overclocking the GPU. In the other hand the CPU is a bit slow because not all games support 4 cores, and they take advange of CPU speed.

 

well i didn't need but i wanned to compete with the 4870 in the m17x so i got the same speed and i was waiting for a qx9300

 

are the MRHD 4870 and MRHD 4850 the same card? beside the clocks I mean.. something similar with the GTX 280M and the GTX 285M, same core, and same numer of cuda cores (128).. the only difference are memory speeds and core speeds.

Well I am the same waiting for a price drop of the QX9300, AW is selling them on eBay for ~$550, but I don't have any money at the moment. I guess I am going for the CPU upgrade next year, and want to add a bluray reader all at the same time, to not have to disassemble the laptop twice

 

yup exactly


yup but mine is comming as soon as paypal stop messing

i won't be able to make a run at 2.26 my new ram fails at 2.15ghz

 

But overclock just the CPU, leave the RAM at stock.. I am not overclocking the mem.

 

set fsb touch the ram no way around i would have to use an other software that does not touch the ram

 

What about the BIOS? Isn't there any option for overclocking?

 

not on the m17 we need to use the XTU to oc within the bios and instalkling the xtu cause window to be unstable so i'll wait and install it on a dumy os

 

I see. I will go back the CPU at stock and re run the benchmarks. So we can compare GPU only (at stock)