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    M17x wifi

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Finiousfingers, Jan 11, 2010.

  1. Finiousfingers

    Finiousfingers Notebook Enthusiast

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    got my M17x in exchange for my M1730.
    Day one: thrilled
    Day two: lost video cards for about 6 hours then the driver worked again and getting freezes while it thinks...

    Day three: lost wifi, spent 2 hours uninstalling/reinstalling wifi drivers and restarting. finally let alien dial in to do it. wifi wouldnt work unless network cable was plugged into laptop. then wifi would pop saying connections available. I would select connection and it worked. then as soon as i unplugged the cable the wifi dropped.
    took alien 2 hours and dozens of restarts of doing the same thing i did until driver took.
    day 4 lost wifi again and getting freezes. did the uninstal driver from the device manager and restart then it worked.
    day 5: do a alien restore, took 2 times to work...
    day 6: lost wifi again...
    day 7: install new hdd and do a clean install of win7 ultimate.
    day 8,9,10 all happy, no freezes, but still have wifi issues.

    thoughts?
     
    Finiousfingers, Jan 11, 2010
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    Psychotic deformity Notebook Consultant

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  3. Finiousfingers

    Finiousfingers Notebook Enthusiast

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    WOW you are on it... thank you, will give it a go and post.
     
    Finiousfingers, Jan 11, 2010
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  4. benthedogtrainer

    benthedogtrainer Notebook Evangelist

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    alienware has confirmed that it is the win 7 and computer conflict.....install vista ult and you will have no issues with it .if you have searched the forums you will se a few fix ideas....but they are still working on it and will continue to intil its fixed i am sure
     
    benthedogtrainer, Jan 11, 2010
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    Finiousfingers Notebook Enthusiast

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    well i dont have the vista ultimate disc so...
    but I did do the link suggestion of disable the sleep on the nic card. will see when i go home if that worked.

    thanks all for the input and will update if I learn anything.
    :D
     
    Finiousfingers, Jan 11, 2010
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  6. benthedogtrainer

    benthedogtrainer Notebook Evangelist

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    again dont waste ur time call tech support and if they cant fix it tell them to send u a vista disk
     
    benthedogtrainer, Jan 11, 2010
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