Having nothing but issues with the 4870's in my R2...

The truth is not something known to most Dell reps, so they just say whatever bull they heard at the water cooler that morning I think.

 

The new BIOS will be available on Dell's support site later today or tomorrow and should resolve this issue. Please grab it once it shows up and let me know how it works for you. Sorry for the delay in getting this online!!!!

Thanks!

 

The driver has now shown up on the Dell support site!

Alienware M17x R2 A02 BIOS Release Notes

1. Fixed issue where video would flicker from time to time when using an over-clocked XE cpu in conjunction with a dual SLI video card configuration.

 

I am really surprised they have not updated the thermal tables in BIOS A02.

 

How can you tell? And if you can tell, what have they changed?

I'm really curious, I'm not fooling around.

 

I just read the BIOS update notes.

 

Well, if it's the only thing that Bios is supposed to fix, don't bother downloading it, cuz it's not fixing anything.. mine is still flickering after the Bios update...

 

That's retarded of dell to release an update that only addresses overclocked cpu, considering pretty much everyone that experiences the flickering hasn't even overclocked their cpu's.

 

Well, the 920XM, auto-overclock, thx to the Turbo, thats prob whats they means

 

I would hope that's what it means, but doesn't the 720 and 820 also turbo? If that was the case why wouldn't the bios also affect them? Is this update only supposed to be for those with the extreme cpu or all?

I didn't experience any flickering with the 820 when i had it, but i've seen some that do. Im afraid my new one might have the issue, and so far it doesn't seem to have been fixed.

 

Higher multi on the 920

 

I have the issue just with mass effect 2, when I disable the turbo the flickering disappear so I will try the new bios tonight

 

Yes, this whole BIOS fix is strange, but then the problem is strange. I had flickering for real while watching a Dell tech remotely work on my system when it wasn't activating Crossfire... he fixed that, but then we had to stop ( I was at work). Came home, disabled and re-enabled Crossfire and it works like a charm now. I am really wondering if there is any gain if you don't have flickering, or even a risk of getting it if you don't see it now with the original BIOS.

EDIT: Before I re-enabled Crossfire, I had to go back in and turn my Turbo back on after the Dell tech had turned it off claiming that would work until the BIOS fix. Go figure Almost makes me think some power configuration is dependent on interrogating the system under one circumstance say without Crossfire enabled/working during the build and it is not right resulting in these issues in some cases.

 

Ok no more flickering in mass effect 2 the bios work perfectly