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    M17x-R2- Free Fall sensor in HDD and built into chassis?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by jared_good, Apr 16, 2010.

  1. jared_good

    jared_good Notebook Consultant

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    So I have 2 500GB Momentus® 7200 Laptop Hard Drives With G-Force Protection™ in RAID 0. So I know that my hard drives have a free fall sensor in them, but I was searching the forums and I read somewhere that the M17x-R2 itself has an accelerometer/free fall sensor built right into the chassis itself. Is this true? The built in accelerometer doesnt conflic with the hard drives own free fall sensors? And isnt this overkill?
     
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  2. kilthro

    kilthro Floating in Space

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    Yes it hast its own. Its st micro accelerometer.. You should be fine.


    Jared why do you open a new thread every time you have a question? You should be asking all of these in the M17xr2 owner's lounge topic.
     
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    Glzmo Notebook Deity

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    For some reason the driver for the ST Micro Accelometer causes my laptop to wake to a black screen from sleep and hibernation. When I uninstall the driver, everything is fine. Has anybody else been experiencing this?
     
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    kilthro Floating in Space

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    Nope.. mine wakes from sleep just fine.. What version drivers are you using? I am on 10.3 previews. I dont use hibernation.. I have that disabled.
     
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    jared_good Notebook Consultant

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    Glzmo, Mine does the same thing but a little different. I have my M17x-R2 setup so when I close the lid the computer stays fully on (Disabled sleep and hybernation mode) but the screen still turns itself off when you close the lid (which is nice) but if I leave the lid closed for over 15 minutes, when I reopen the lid the backlight comes on but the screen stays black and the only way to get the picture back is to press Ctrl+ALT+DELETE. Its not really a big problem but more of an inconvienance. But I wlways wnondered if anyone else experienced this.
    Also, the HDD in my alienware are Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive model number ST9500420ASG.
     
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