*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owners Lounge - Part 4

Glad to hear you finally found the solution.

 

Oops, posted in wrong thread! Argh~!

 

I haven't followed your story sinistas but have you tried the Unresolved Issues Link or the "unspoken" email for Michael Dell that gets you a specific rep for your case? If you haven't PM me for more info.

 

I tried doing the escalation thing months ago and got nothing back. I don't know if that's what you're referring to.

 

I dunno if anybody has noticed this, but on HWinfo, it claims that my 1080p screen is only 6-bit. Is this the same with everyone else?

perhaps this is causing the dithering effect that some users have noticed.

 

you can't just sit back and wait for them, just have to constantly call them untill you get your issues resolved. never wait for them, even if they say they will call back.

 

I've been calling a bunch, it's certainly not a lack of effort on my end.

 

Sinistas I'm not talking about escalation, I'm talking about the Dell Consumer Resolution Department, aka the department that puts out the most replacement units

 

i nevered had to go to escalations, if i think the tech is not doing enough i just ask to speak to a supervisor. normally after 5 mins with a supervisor i get what i want.

ok time to go home, get some munchies and play with the wife and kid, then some tf2 baby. need more hats.lol

 

Escalations aka Michael Dell lolz

 

never tried the michael dell email yet. maybe i should complain to him, why isn't my card pulling 1010 core like dane's.

 

LOL inap, could be opperator error!!! Just kidding man, did you try that trick I told you earlier today on lowering then bumping your core and vram clocks?

 

Didn't have the chance yet. Maybe tomorrow though.

 

anyone else see something wrong with this setup

 

What setup? That's a picture of a chick

 

lolz her setup....i named the pic as W.t.f and the forum filter kicked in and renamed w.t.f to a different shortcut and imageshack redirected to this


Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/jqktj - Uploaded by skylarraine9

 

It has a desktop CPU! (not really, but it would be cool if the D900F/X7200 had some competition)

 

A GT240M in a setup like that? (censored)?

 

^^^^^ BINGO

 

Well that's 1 combo I never thought of, Hahaha
That could be the key to the most amazing cpu score ever, Hahaha.

 

hello everyone havnt been here in awhile. my alienware seems to be failing.my rubber stops came off with me noticing and my comp is slowing down.. (then again im sure i have a virus...damn torrents =) how is everyon with their alienware lately?

 

SOLID.

viruses can really screw things up. I hope you have an antivirus program. Run a full scan.

About the rubber stoppers, i called alienware and they replaced my whole palmrest (though they said they don't normally do that). Give it a shot.

And make sure you crazy glue them in on the next one

 

You've only had your computer for about a month now haven't you? And you're already loaded up with viruses? If I were you if you're having that many issues and noticing a computer with those specs being slow I'd do a full wipe/format/reinstall and stay away from what ever torrent sites you've been going to.

 

PRON OWNZ joooU...LOLZ jk...Wipe it clean and do this


Upon clean install load up Microsoft security essentials, Malware bytes, Spybot without teatime or any junk, Get firefox and load the addon "noscript". I do clean installs like once a month sometime even more lately seems like eevry 5-7 days lolz...but those tips have helped me alot and do not hit your resources like Norton or Mcafee.

 

im a downloading machine (about 75-100gb a month... LOL)

i always download form torrents and NEVER have i had one problem/virus.


You just got to know what you're downloading... takes a little experience to rule out fakes/trojans... but i can spot them right away...

first thing you should notice... no movie will be 108kb and only have a .exe file LOLL.... but i'll assume you know that.

Try to find reputable torrent sites with quality stuff.... stay away from things that are too good to be true...

and of course... adult films are the No.1 trojan carriers...

you just gotta be careful

and as faiz said... a clean install is the best way to go. also defrag once a month, run cc cleaner once a week, and run a full system virus scan once every week as well....well thats what i do...

 

I've never once had a virus either and may not do 100gb of torrents a month but easily 20-50gb a month, another idea is to pay the extra money for some of the torrent clients with filtering and built in virus scans that scan what you download before it's on your pc. I think I paid $20 total, not a month, for the one I use.

 

i've been using an app called "sandboxie" which runs your web-browser in a sandbox, awesome for checking out sites you aren't sure are safe.

just nuke the box when done and there you go, good as new.
any apps which ran scripted will also run in the sandbox unable to infect the system. any saved files you wish to keep, you have a choice to recover or destroy.

firefox and noscript works great too, however i like to see flashy anims on pages sometimes, not to mention you can sometimes enable the wrong script and it was all for naught.

it's also a great alternative for my dad who has the uncanny nack for getting viruses installed from webpages.

 

That sounds pretty sweet xero, might have to try it out. Thanks + rep!

 

My ISP attempted an unlimited plan and I was downloading no less than 100gb a month Of course the ISP failed miserably and ditched the unlimited option so now I'm back to a 20gb cap

Edit: Really stinks cos Fallout New Vegas is coming out on the first day of my new month for downloads so I imagine it will be at least half my useage.

 

Why don't you just purchase it at a retailer or order it online as a hard copy shipped to you Smeggit?

 

LoL, I'm a horrible impulse buyer and I browse steam a lot, I prepurchaced the game quite a while ago

 

it's worth the $, it can also run apps in a sandboxed enviro, however i've found that if the app in question requires admin privileges, it may refuse to run.

there are settings you can change in order to enable it to work, however then sandboxie warns you that it can't protect you 100%

for those apps, i've found it to work with kaspersky's "safe run" option which i think is similar, however it is nowhere near as configurable as sandboxie.

haha i have both side by side since kaspersky's my internet security software of choice.

it's funny with sandboxie if you go to a website which loads trojans etc on your pc, you see them load in the sandbox and with a single rightclick/nuke watch it all go away. only problem, you loose your bookmarks since they were sandboxed haha.

 

Ahah, good thing I'm not alone! :O
This summer I was download over 100Gbs every months, but I slowed down since then! Now it hoovers around 65Gb!

 

I actually did get the 1080p screen by mistake!

 

NICE!!! Seems like they're doing a lot of that lol.

 

do you think disabling the fall sensor will make damages to the hdd? i.m trying some configurations but i dont want to damage my data

 

disabling will cause no problems, unless you drop the laptop, hahahah

i nevered installed the free fall sensor at all.

 

there is no point for the free fall sensor if you have an SSD anyway

 

An excellent observation and not nearly as obvious as it ought to be. LOL.

 

^^^^ yea SERIOUSLY LOL... nothin gets passed Wattos... He's always on TOP of his game

And honestly... i've never relied on the free-fall sensor crap... sounds like a gimmick to me...

 

I installed the sensors simply because every time id log into windows id get a big warning msg saying is wasn't installed. Was easier to just install and forget about it

 

Makes sense I know how you feel about recurring error messages upon start-up. i'd lose my mind.

 

Standby ftw
EDIT: oops

 

okay, I found it again:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/519978-m17x-free-fall-sensor.html#post6729091

disable the sensor.

 

ok so i posted something that wasmeant for the M17x owner's thread... my bad guys.

 

Anyone able to put windows xp on the m15x? New to the system, so if there is a thread about it id appreciate a link.

 

just do a fresh install with a windows xp disk? Lolll nothing to it really...or do you mean dual booting keeping windows 7 and having xp at the same time? I think Windows 7 ultimate has xp mode as one of it extra features...but im not certain

 

No idea if it actually works on the M15x. Win 7 is not crap enough to go through the trouble of installing XP. There might not XP drivers around for all the components and in some cases Win XP seems to have crashed with the i7 line of CPU ( a quick google told me that).

I would actually advice you to get virtualBox and install XP on that. VirtualBox is completely free (open-source version available) and it runs very well.

 

Bump =/
Anyone from Canada know a email address where I can send complaints about my system?

 

^^^^ hahahaha . Good one SoccerT... It's hard enough getting your point accross to dell reps over the phone, after hours of conversation. You think sending an email will do anything? i wouldn't hold my breathe on it... loll

But sorry i don't know of any. Even if there was, they probably just pluck 1 out of every 5000 and read it... and discard the rest.