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    Faulty light - hardware or software?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by smfadamhart, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. smfadamhart

    smfadamhart Newbie

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    Hi there

    Recieved my brand new R1 yesterday, which, aside from plenty of irritating driver issues, has been fantastic. However, all of a sudden, without me noticing at first, the right-hand side light (the grill one, zone 3), has stopped working properly. It will not change to any of the colours between bright green and red going clockwise on the colour wheel - it changes to a different one to the other. This would not be the end of the world if not for it looking stupid when a game controls the lights, or the particualrly annoying fact that if I turn out all of the lights, this one glows bright blue!

    I'm leaning towards this being a hardware issue, as it seems as if the light cannot generate the yellow tint to achieve various colours, but I'm no expert. I can't seem to find any info on this problem, and I've tried re-installing the CC to no success.

    Any ideas?
     
    smfadamhart, Jul 20, 2011
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  2. dskid807

    dskid807 Notebook Guru

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    Have you tried unplugging the battery and taking out the CMOS battery then holding the power button for 30 seconds. If that doesn't do it, give Dell a ring.
     
    dskid807, Jul 20, 2011
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  3. hermitmaster

    hermitmaster Notebook Consultant

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    Try running this: C:\Program Files\Alienware\Command Center\AlienwareAlienFXTester.exe
     
    hermitmaster, Jul 20, 2011
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    thehelios Notebook Enthusiast

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    It might be a driver issue. When I was screwing around with that Winamp plugin that had the alienfx visualization plugin, it would usually fail and when it did, it would screw with my lighting completely unless I restarted.

    But the tester also seems like a good thing to hit first. Didn't even know it existed until dskid brought it up.
     
    thehelios, Jul 23, 2011
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