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

yeah i know how you feel man, most of the time i work 7 days a week. i have a side job for the weekends, but decided to take a breather today. especially with this economy, i feel lucky just to have a job, hahah

gotta hustle when you can.

 

Hi guys. This may have been answered somewhere but can people let me know regarding the problem with the fans going full blast at boot up from cold and staying on rather than the normal short blast, has this been fixed? I still get it on the odd occasion. Is it some setting in the BIOS that needs changing?

Cheers!

 

its a glitch, normally a reboot will fix it. but if you find it happening often, then contact dell about, because no real fix for it yet.

 

that's a pity. what will Dell do about it though you reckon?

 

probably replace the mobo.

 

so have i got a faulty motherboard then? or will the motherboard replace not actually fix it...but it's just what they would do?

 

what bios are you on? yeah thats what they will probably do. not sure what they would do next if it doesn't fix it. but dell is very good with warranty.

 

A05 came installed with this as I only got it last month.
I personally think replacing the mobo is a waste of time. it's gotta be software rather than hardware surely?

 

it could be, but the fans on start up is the bios testing the fan, how often does it happen? personallt i have never had it happen before.

 

Oh man that issue is damn annoying. Out of like 5 boots, one will get stuck lol. I'll have to restart since for some reason my CPU is cool but my GPU is warmer than usual...

 

hopefully one day we will have a perfect bios to take care of all these glitches. untill then we can just dream, lol.

 

for that issue i just run one of my games to get the gpu or cpu to heat up then once its been on for a bit the fan calms down once ive closed out of the game and all is normal only have had to do that twice in a month and a half.

 

Depending on how this conversation with Alienware techs go I may not have an M15x anymore :S

 

WHAT? WHY? broke or something?

 

Wow what going on bro? Moving up to m17x?

 

Well at the moment, I'm in talks to move up to the M17x, but if it doesn't happen then i'm sticking around here .

Basically when i was given the option to exchange out of the 1645 SXPS i went with the M15x on the advice of the technician. However after loosing some real estate (16") to the 15.6" and the RGBLED i'm inquiring about moving up to the 17x.

So far its promising however Alienware is making go through hoops to get in touch with a supervisor so by tomorrow i'll know where I stand

 

Either way if it doesn't happen i'll be quite content with my M15x/5850. But if it doesn't I don't think i can say no to a 5870 or possibly x2.

 

hope dell takes care of you bro. but yeah cf 5870 be crazy to pass that up.

 

Hey everyone, been lurking on this site for awhile and figured that I'd sign up since my M15x arrived a few days ago!

If anyone could point me in the direction of posts/guides/threads detailing CPU and GPU upgrading I would be grateful. I was unable to get the CPU I wanted due to my location (Dell doesn't offer the i7-620M in Canada, so I had to get the i5-540M) and I'm hoping to find a detailed guide (preferably with pictures) that I can look at to swap out my i5 with the i7 when I purchase it.

On that note, where would you recommend I purchase an i7-620M processor? I don't know of any big-name retailers that can get mobile processors...


Also, I was wondering, would the M15x be able to accommodate an Nvidia GTX 285M if I purchased it? From what I can tell it should be compatible?

 

Don't want to shatter your hopes, but I can't see them giving you a dual gpu setup when your SXPS was single. But at the very least you'll get the RGB LED and a single 5870, which is amazing as it is with the option of upgrading down the line.

 

By the way, I saw some benchs for the 5850, I feel like a fool with my 260m now

 

If you're gunna swap the CPU out, get an i3 if it's offered and then put an i7 in afterwards. unless they use a different socket in that case that's my bad.

 

I already have it with the i5-540M, and I don't plan to upgrade the CPU until my years worth of warranty runs out.

Are there any reputable retailers for OEM mobile processors and graphics cards? Or is eBay my only hope? Eventually I plan to upgrade it to the i7-620M, GTX 285M, and 8GB 1066MHz RAM... If SSD prices come down to reasonable levels at the 50)GB range by then I'll get one of those as well.

 

Just for the record I have been having this same problem (a few times a week). Didn't have this problem until I had my motherboard replaced a couple weeks ago with another problem. I have been told that there will be problems with this motherboard until it get's a firmware update. Can this be true????

 

Will Intel Centrino 6300 works with M15x

 

thierry your not alone i ordered and had time to get my order switched but i wasn't going to risk downgrading from what i was hearing at the time it could of had the GDDR3 memory

 

yes.. it will...

 

Well, Alienware is being extremely difficult just getting them to exchange it for the 17" model the process for exchanges takes much more "reviewing" than is necessary by the SXPS department. So we'll see how this progresses. I should know something more by the end of the day or tomorrow.

On a side note still nothing on the 5850 upgrade front, (because even if they aren't able to exchange my system I do want the 5850 installed if they ever figure out how to send it out).

 

Best of luck with that Hitokiri!
Just moved my whole room over, feels great to change my set-up a little!
But while I was cleaning the beast, I discovered a horrible mark on the back of the monitor The lid is ruined!
My M15x is already old

 

bummer man, but i'm sure after a week or 2 you'll forget about it. also don't feel bad about the 260m bro, still a good card. also you can just upgrade your video card when you feel the 260 is no longer enough.

 

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...ok_winvista_win7_64bit_international_beta.exe 64bit
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windo...ok_winvista_win7_32bit_international_beta.exe 32bit

257.15 BETA drivers (that's some jump from 197.x!!!)

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS :

This is the first driver release from the Release 256 family of drivers (versions 256.xx to 259.xx). Learn more about Release 256 drivers here .

This driver supports the following NVIDIA notebook GPUs (please refer to the Products Supported tab for exceptions):

ION notebook GPUs.
GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, 200M, and 300M-series notebook GPUs.
Quadro NVS-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).
Quadro FX-series notebook GPUs (only those that support DirectX 10 or higher).

New in Version 257.15

Adds support for NVIDIA Optimus notebooks.
Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology. Learn more about the hardware and software requirements here .
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0222.
Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations. See CUDA Zone for more details.
Adds support for a new ‘Quality’ mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

 

Man, that sucks! Sorry to hear that, Thierry. Maybe you should consider one of Inap's beautiful skins? Just send him a photo of your girlfriend and he'll take care of everything!

 

Good afternoon Mr. Pras. A noob question for you. What is the best way of installing these drivers? Download, uninstall the previous drivers and install the new ones. Or don't the old ones have to be uninstalled? Or would it be better to uninstall the old drivers, run Ccleaner and then install the new drivers?

Thanks for your response!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Harry

Edit: I'll just take the safe road and choose the last option.

 

Anyone confirm if sound over the displayport works with the 257.xx drivers? It's for this reason alone I still have mine with 186.81.

 

Well, I installed the drivers after running Ccleaner and rebooting, but I think had already reinstalled the other drivers. What do I do?

Also my camera is now on and cannot be switched off.

All right, the good ol' draining trick got rid of the camera glitch!

 

so what is going on with the driver harry?

 

Don't know Inap. I uninstalled the drivers, ran Ccleaner and rebooted. Then I wanted to install the new drivers but in the meantime Windows was already installing Nvidia drivers. I still installed the new ones but I don't know which are running now.

 

don't worry about it harry, thats normal. after uninstalling windows will always install a generic driver for your card. use gpuz to see the current driver.

 

So am I running the new drivers now? Where can I check that?

All right, so I am currently running the new drivers. Thanks, Inap!

A bit worried about my CPU temps, though. They seem to have shot up from 30-41°C to 56-60°C on idle.

 

Sadly it doesn't, I'm about to revert back to 186.81.

 

Harry reboot and check your temps again. But those temps are still very acceptable.

 

Hi, Inap. I just ran 3dmark06 and the temps did not go over 74°C, so it's no problem. I'll upload the results to imageschack and then post them. GPU came out better than with the older drivers.

Here's the result. I'll post it in the benchmark thread as well.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

 

I had no problem to use audio through the display port..
Actually it's the first time I use the display to HDMI thingy, and it works great!

 

heads up, new bios just release A06.

 

Hey guys, I currently have the Thermaltake Massive 23t cooler. I'm wondering if its necessary to keep for the M15x that I've ordered.

Should I just look to selling the cooler?

 

under normal uses theM15x will not need a cooler.

 

Yup, sounds interesting! See here.

 

will my sounds issues return if i installed these drivers as im using the 197.31(M17x latency fix)

 

But under gaming use, will it need a cooler?

 

by normal, i mean no oc'ing. gaming and everything is fine with no cooler. M15x is a cooling beast. only when oc'ing you will get higher temp, but even then the temp are all acceptable. keep the cooler if you plan on doing alot of benchmarking, otherwise sell it.