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    Just finished setting up my M17x

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Taomyn, Aug 2, 2009.

  1. Taomyn

    Taomyn Notebook Consultant

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    Hey everyone, got my M17x a few days ago and finally got it all set up running Windows 7 very sweetly. What an awesome machine. Finally decided to upgrade my 4.5 year old Dell Inspiron 9200, which did me well all that time and still runs Windows 7 perfectly. I also wanted something I could game on but didn't want a desktop system.

    I did struggle at first to get my SLI 280s to perform, and it turned out to be a BIOS setting (I forget the name, something like L0/L1/L2 was enabled).

    Another thing seems like nVidia 190.x series drivers don't like to work - they install then during start up the logon screen appears, disappears and I'm left with a black screen and mouse cursor. Put on 186.34 and they work a treat.

    While I continue to tweak things, has anyone posted there own AlienFX themes? I'd like to see what others have come up with.
     
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  2. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    i have a sweet rainbow theme and a white theme .... i can also edit them to put in ANY HTML color code :D
     
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  3. Warcraft

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    moo can i get the setting for white color?
     
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    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    yea this wasn't by me i only could get the speakers and touch pad and alienhead :eek:

    not sure if i accidentally re edited the white...
     

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  5. Warcraft

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    OOOO nice +1 for moo.
    im saving that to my comp until my m17x arrives.
     
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    the white setting looks pinkish to me. the rainbow on the other hand looks nuts! GJ!
     
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    neither is mine ... i did use them to figure out how to do it ......

    kinda hard to make perfect white when white is the absence of colors :p
     
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    lol ill try out the rainbow color first when my m17x arrives. :p
     
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    Many thanks, will try those to see what they are like.

    FYI white is all colours as all of them are reflect back to your eyes (which is why it's 0xFFFFFF), black is the absence of colour (0x000000)

    I might have to dig around the XML and see what other goodies are hidden
     
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