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

Hey inap... you gotta live by the motto... Work Hard, Play Harder. I worked my arse off all semester and just found out i got amazing grades !! ( i dunno how... cheating might or might not have been a HUGE part of it Lol)

the amount of time you work bro you gotta let loose! And dont gimme that BS!!! your friggin young! Your in the prime years buddy... u got wits and money! I got neither! lolll .. pu tthe kids to bed and head on out with your wifey im sure you two can have a blast togther . im with my gf everywhere, but then again, shes just like me!

Yeeee boii College is da shizzznit. Apply to Concordia University ( thats where i am!!) .. Theres parties all the time and we have a bar in our school with dirt cheap beers!!! LOLL.. its awesome.

Anyways.. its crazy how i know exactly what your talking about! Im surprized those items still exists! i miss the SOJ's Duping days! i remeber having like 4 mule chars filled with sojs!!! it was awesome! ...

Anyways ima try coming on here more often you guys are like family! And thanks Harry... but by the sounds of it.. where you live sounds like one longggggggg never ending party on a beautiful tropical island ...man oh man i wish...

 

hahahah i know bro.wish you the best, hope you have a blast!!!

 

Ha ha ha! That's true J but it's not really about where you live, it's all about daring to let the beast out!!

 

Sooo, quick question. Anyone have an idea why the Alienhead logo on the lid of my laptop isn't glowing any color anymore? i've played around with the themes to turn it on but nothin...

 

Also, how do you know if your running in stealth mode? Aside from serious game lag.

 

Ok so I got Lojacks with my system for free, it came already on the system wtih an icon that said install lojack. When i tried to install it it keeps giving me "An unexpected error occured during installation; installation is not complete. Please contact computrace lojack for laptops global support. Error#: 2160" I tried talking to dell, got transferred a few times, got annoyed and hungup. I didn't even get an activation or product key or anything from them. How do i go about fixing this??

 

i'm going to get laugh at for this but:

turn off
unplug
take out battery
press power button for 10-20 secs
put back and see if it works
if not go back in the alienfx and change colors, untill its on again then switch to what ever color you wish to use.

also here is a link for a small app made by wattos, that lets you know when stelth mode is on:

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

should be a download link somewhere in the middle of the first page.

 

sorry steelcurtain, don't have lojack installed so i don't really know the answer.

 

Thanks!, and i did notice that the light for the stealth mode button does seem to get dimmer when on and back to normal when off...

Anyway sorry to noob up the place.

 

it cool bro, nothing to worry about, its the owners lounge. so if you own one you are welcomed, well even if you don't own one your still welcomed,lol.

 

Ahah, I'm jealous dude, I still have 6 weeks left to school..
Shouldnt be hard, but it just sucks >.>
I heard Concordia was a good school, but I'm heading for McGill 8D
Anyway I guess you'll be long gone from college when I'll get there

 

ok im trying to set the touch buttons in winamp for the play/pause but of course conflict how do you get this function to work?

nvm didnt read all the hotkeys before i edited them restored defaults now they are working properly

 

I had to reinstall Win7 as I was hitting a bluescreen on boot for some reason. Now I'm getting the AlienFX error. This isn't going very well so far...

 

Is the AlienFX problem you are having the same as Soccer? No lights, Command Center not finding the FX controller, and basically a total lack of lighting everywhere?

 

Indeed. It was working before I reinstalled 7.

 

Ok. Have you tried unplugging, taking the battery out, and holding the power button for 10 seconds? You know, power drain trick.

If so and it still doesn't work I'd uninstall it, run ccleaner to clean your registry, reboot, and reinstall.

If that still doesn't work, then you are in the same boat as Soccer. You'll need a new motherboard. I had this happen to me and I had to get it replaced.

 

Actually did both of those as well. Calling tech support tomorrow, lol

 

Yeah, they'll take care of you. A tech will be sent out asap to swap that out for you and hopefully that will be the last of your problems.

 

My Alienhead goes out quite a lot, turning the lights off and back on with Fn+F11 brings it back for me tho I sometimes have to turn off/on up to 5 times before it works.

 

Please, would someone run their diagnostic test to see if you get the same thing as above. My daughter also has this machine and her's does the same thing as mine?????? Would really appreciate it.

 

I'm writing this from my new m15x The improvement in performance over my desktop is quite phenomenal (It could barely run Resi 5 on high details, with no AA at 1440x900).

 

Congratulations Hobgoblinpie!
Glad to see you found your ultimate machine.
Enjoy it and welcome to the family.

 

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This is after I emailed them saying I bought it off Dell and it shipped with it already on there, but gave me errors when trying to install. aghhhh

 

I think it's fairly common, at least I've heard it mentioned a few times. Typically it'll stall when you press a key whether it's asking for input or not. Sorry to say I don't recall hearing of a fix for it.

 

Alright, was dealing with tech support this morning. The tech support guy was uninstalling Command Center remotely and the system froze, and now not only does AlienFX not work, but I can't get half my programs to open or work at all. This system has been nothing but a nightmare since I ordered it.

 

sorry to hear that man. i would ask for a replacement right away, instead of fixing a new system. so the problem happened after a reinstall of windows seven? try uninstalling the cc and run ccleaner to clean it out. then do a windows update then restart and install it again.

also what version of cc are you running????

 

Does anyone know how I go about finding the number the the NA tech reps as stated in the warranty info? Is it on the website or something?

 

pm batboy he should have a number.

 

Also how many times does a tech person have to come/ talk to phone support before you can get a replacement system? I just have a friend who is under the complete warranty and has had 2 failed tech people plus phone support and the system still doesnt work. How does he go about getting a new system?

 

it really depends on the issue, if you have mutiple cases open, probably best to call customer support and ask for replacement.

 

So looks like i may be the first one of us to get the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850. If shipping happens on time I may see it as early as tomorrow if not monday.

Hopefully it benches better than the GTX 260 and makes the hastle worth the upgrade.

 

ha... called and was denied a replacement. even thoguh he had 2 failed techs come. they said because he got a mo board replacement he cant get a pc replacement

 

they won't replace a system without attempting to repair it a few times. the Magic number seems to be after the 3rd attempt(4th repair) so complain about something else to get that replacement processed. eventually they will offer it to you instead of you asking for it.

 

I just went through the build process on the Dell site with the same machine I bought a couple of months ago and it was £200 more than what I paid..

Woohoo.. Oh wait, what a boring loser I must be!! haha

 

Also, my rep power went from 6 to 7.. Anyone know what that means? It's been on 6 for ages!

 

At least you will have DX11 support!!

 

im gonna wait and buy the 5870 when i have more funds available a few months from now. considering that the 5870 is better than the 5850 (supposedly gddr3 due to heat issues, the one being shipped for the M15x) im sticking to my 260m im happy with it and im keeping it that way lol.

 

its because someone rep you, oh wait its me,lol. it goes up with a certain amount of rep, what that number is i don't know.

 

mine went up to 2 without any increase in my rep so im thinking the number post can also affect the number for rep imo.

 

yeah 260 is already a great card, i don't think dx11 is worth getting if the 5850 is gddr3. but 5870 is sweet, kinda glad they are not putting it in the M15x, so mine can still be special,lol

 

yea you could think you have a one of a kind model cannot be bought but modified which i can't wait to be apart of once i got the dough.

 

Good thing the 5850 is the gddr3 version, so my lappy is not a worthless piece of hardware yet

 

its has not been confirmed with a gpuz readout yet so i wouldn't say that just yet but everything ive read and talked to a aw rep points to the 5850 having gddr3

 

My daughter called Alienware and they seem to think it is the graphic card. They are sending someone out to her home with a new one. Guess I will be calling also. The diagnostic test should work correctly so if it doesn't something has to be wrong. I checked the manual and it says to call in if there is a problem running it. Seems a little strange to me that we both aren't able to get through this test without the beep and hang at the color question. Never had a problem on any other machine I have owned running this test. As a matter of fact this is the first thing Dell usually asked me to run when I needed to call them a few times with other machines. Thanks for responding to my question Smeggit.

 

I just got my system replaced. From what I understand, they usually take 3 major component replacement before considering a system exchange. I had my MOBO changed twice and the keyboards 3 times before they agreed for a system exchange.

P.S. If you're lucky... they will not send in a return shipping label and you can keep both laptops... haha... I've got 2 systems with me right now. Any takers?? I can sell one off for half price...

 

Ok, Is anyone else experiencing an issue with Battlefield Bad Company 2 where it won't display at a 60hz resolution. Everything is listing at 59hz.

Or can someone let me know if our LCD Panels even display at higher than 59hz.

 

Actually the screen refresh rates on all M15x's is 59hz. So you will not get more than that.

 

BTW does anyone have a link to DL all the original wallpapers and DP's for the M15x? My replacement came with wallpapers from the old m15x version.

 

here you go:

Download wall and avatars.rar from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way

 

Nevermind.!