Alienware M17 *OFFICIAL* Owner's Lounge

shhhh...

 

W T F what are you going to do :O you have no notebook well good luck E i hope she sells while your waiting you know your still gonna be here to help

 

lol for my keybaord issue there was nothing wrong with the colors, I was so nooob, i was holding down F key +N key+ F10 key rofl. see how nub I am.

 

wow thats a good job figureing that one out

 

hi all any ideas why the game grid freezes every so often.... about every 1 min or so for split second.

2.53 prozzi

2gig ram alienwares stuff

3870

1 hdd

when i look at the windows experiance im well over what it needs

i did instal 8.2 or what ever the latest g drivers are..

any ideas????

also the game is on an external hdd could this be a problem

 

lol the latest drivers are 9.1 e wrecks modded driver run it perfect for me no lag or freeze i would install them ..then next newest is 8.12

boom digggidy http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=347611

 

nice one mr moo

im still putting the feelers on the lappy getting my head round it,

i already broke alien fusion keeps coming up as an error.

 

any ocz people looking for a alienware keyboard??

 

Hey Kcuk!

If you are getting the text "Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow" with Alien Fusion, then you should know it's a known problem for Vista 64bit users. I'm not sure if there's a fix for that yet.

 

yup got that error to

why couldnt the m17 be like this http://www.gscreencorp.com/

montevina platform niceeeeee

 

update my scores in 11k range now what gives. I tested it earlier and it got 15k+

 

make sure your on max performance and and ccc check settings and diable backround processes and adjust for best performance alot of options to choose from lol

 

I would have just gotten the Lenovo with dual screens then.

BTW- Any chance you're an Engadget follower?

 

which ones exactly?

 

which what settings? check your power scheme setting and in control panel click system and then on the left advanced system settings then click settings for performance then adjust for best perfrormance and to adjust power schemes go to bottom right in your taskbar click you battery and go to best performance and in CCC click power play and make sure your on best performance

 

I was in Phase 5 this morning and now i checked it again and omg!

Phase 9: (Order Shipped)
Congratulations, the order has been shipped. We only hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed building it for you.

 

Congrats.
did you choose the ripley design?

 

Skullcap design

 

double congrats from me

Greetings
Julian

 

only 13k range now what happend?

 

hi all now i got my m17 i want to offload my m9700 on ebay or something but im concernd with hdd fraud.

whats the best hdd cleaner,

thanks for any help

 

format c: lol

only 13 k if you have that t9400 you shouldn't get much more ... i only hit 12 800 form AW and they kinda up those ...dang 13 is awsome for a t9400

 

DBAN, hands down.

 

who gets a AW with out a skull cap ....? thats why you pay the extra 100-200 just for the skull cap ..... lol

 

i got 13,737 with a t9400...overclocked though

 

me again..... wheres the vista64 bit serial as i need to reinstall.... want to i mean.

 

Remove the battery and you will see it

Greetings
Julian

EDIT: 400 *party*

Did you chanced something with the cooling?
Respect!

 

You know I found that Acronis True Image Home 10 and the M17 don't get along well at all. I've had several failed attempts to restore the C:/ partition. I even tried removing the EISA partition before backup. All failed attempts. The most progress I've made was entering Acronis safe mode off of an Acronis boot cd to restore, But the result wasn't able to boot even after manually repairing essential files lost in the restore. Luckily, the 57 dollar disk I bought from aw restores the EISA partition as well. I guess that came in handy after all. Not to mention loosing the ability to alien respawn via f10 after a manual install of a new os can be retrieved using the alien respawn disk.
All in all, I'd like to ask,
Is anyone using a 3rd party backup utility that actually works on the m17? Please don't answer with windows restore. I mean a full blown partition image restore utility.

 

Sry I only know Acronis and WINDOWS 7 backup (this is not "restore" it maks a bootable disk and a image dvd of C: ) ... I never used Acronis because I only want to use it for W7 backup ... but when I realized, that this "HDD imagemaking" is included, I didn't even install Acronis!

Greetings
Julian

 

Well, let me be the one to tell you, Acronis 10 don't work on the m17

 

what do you mean it doesn't work?

 

Sorry, looks like this is going to be a long post.

Well, I can make a backup of any microsoft os ... xp, vista premium, ultimate, 7; But, when I try to restore it never seems to load. ( PC should reboot then loads up the restore file, lastly, reboots to your restore. ) After the first boot, It will show " Acronis is Loading" then shows a curser square in the center of the screen, the keyboard turns white, you will get a glimpse of the restore screen, then vanishes to reboot vista or your os of choice. I have tried this with and without the EISA partition.
So, I tried (making) using the boot disk with Acronis so I could actually load the program outside of the os. success. However, the only way to access it is using acronis 'safe mode' so I thought success. However, after a restore there were missing files I had to repair and still to no avail was the backup a success. The backups I tried were all verified. The backups were never true in size according to Acronis. ( If you ever used acronis you should know what i'm talking about. If it says the backup is going to be 5 gigs it's 5 gigs, In my case my 7.5 gig backup never hit 6 gig ) So I thought, I'm doing it wrong, Nope. I've done it many many times and with and without respawn partition for this lappy. So 1 full week at my leasure testing Acronis with outstanding failures I can safely say... "It don't work with the m17"
On one of my encounters I seen there is a pre-boot going on before the os, not affiliated with the os or respawn partition mind you. (But may be part of respawn) I forget the name it but I think it may be the culprit. I'm thinking Priax or something the name had a P and an X. I totally forgot what that was tho. It should have been the equivalent to "No OS Found" error. Wipe your hard drive clean with an empty or no partition and you should see this message.

So in short, evidently, I'm missing something.

EDIT: btw, I'm using Acronis true image home 10. I know there is a new version out, but this version does work with vista.

 

Can u overclock the m17 without voiding the warrenty?

 

No, You can't

Cheers

 

If i'm correct the OCZ Whitebook (which is the same system as M17) don't have such limitation.

 

hi all, now ive got me laptop i want to put in 4 gig of ram im currently using 2 which aw supplied, now ive been looking and theirs 1333mhz ocz stuff and 1066mhz which i have in already,

whats ram should i get and why, im thinking ocz is only anygood if im overclocking, which i carnt do on m17 unless i change bios, how many of you lot out their have got ocz ram is any of your machines overcloked or bios changed.. i want to get ocz but im not sure its worth it..

thanks for any views you lot might have.

 

ram is ram, get a trusted brand-- the ocz is good .... its reliable and you know it works flawlessly and it works fine over clocked as well as regular speed.. so i would get it because you know its good and works perfect and you have the option for down the road

 

acronis works fine for me?

 

lol thx and sorry for my noobyness!

I found where the bug comes from. The touchpad becomes unresponsive for a shortment after you press a key. If this was not answered yet, here is what you have to do, go to: command center>sense>sensitivity and then set the palm contact area to the highest sensitivity (react to my palm).

 

there you go

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that's got to bite. from http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=352388 .

 

what are we going to do AW james and armando please give us info before we spazzzz

 

yep at this point it now looks like the system will be exclusive to alienware. ocz dropped a bomb on us and basically just all of a sudden said no more. we are still trying to figure out exactly why.

 

hi all

i dont know how best to describe this but while im playing pro evo 2009 i get like watermark invisable line like when you have bad tv picture you get those traveling line messing with the picture ... im using e new drivers any ideas.

 

about the discontinuation of the whitebook....what the heck is up with that?

I wonder what kind of implications this will have going forward in terms of upgradability for the m17...it seems every time they release a rig it is abandoned for a new platform within a very short timeframe...could this be the fate of the m17?

 

either tearing or aliasing. to combat tearing, enable vertical sync. this will stop your GPUs from pumping out more frames than your monitor can display. if it's aliasing, try running the game at your monitor's native resolution, and crank up the AA (Anti-Aliasing) as far as possible without losing too much performance.

 

ok bud cheers i will try this now...

 

Question I was looking at the Xoctic 840, now that OCZ has killed them. SHould i go with the AW? I really like what I saw on this platform. Being able to upgrade the proc, GPU and Memory and HDD. I figure that way I can stay up for awhile with out having to buy a new system. This one needs to last me awhile. Single father, plus grandchild living with me.....Im sure you get the picture.

 

Hi

He had asked if he can overclock m17 without voiding warranty.

And the answer is: No, You can't. AW bios restricts You from overclocking any processor onboard M17. It's possible to flash the rig with OCZ bios and make it overclockable, but by doing so you will void Your warranty.

Link: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=352429

Cheers

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think He reffers to so called micro-stuttering, which is common characteristic to SLI and Crossfire configurations when fps are around 30. As far as I am aware U can't do anything about it.

Cheers
Luke