Need a little help formatting my M15X

I put in the system recovery and it reinstalled windows for me after i formatted because of a virus I had...

Now I thought that the support cd would have all the drivers i need, but apparently its a blank disk. My question is do you guys know where i can download 1 big file to put into this cd which has all the drivers i need or do i have to check one by one and see what i need to put on it... please help

 

you sure it's a blank CD? if so, just ask AW for a new one

 

hi shak
i think you have to download 1 by 1 from my hive.
someone else might have an easier solution hopefully for you.

 

Unbelievable...

 

sometimes i really do not understand people at all... if you spend so much money on something, do you not first try to find out at least something about the product? read reviews? read the opinions of those who already own the product? visit forums like NBR? sheesh...

 

Someone make an ISO of their drivers CD for this poor kid...
Use Imgburn to dump an image of the disc, upload to www.megaupload.com
post the link here

Also, I agree with whizzo

 

No offense but it sounds like a decent portion of the problem is coming from the user. It didn't ship with a virus, did it?

 

Its I am downloading them one by one and will burn them to a disk. Hey for the price I paid it would have been nice if Alienware would include a free year of virus protection lol..

 

i thought 30 days were included?

 

You get a free 30 day trial of McAfee, I believe.

 

Avira and AVG are two very well respected and FREE anti-virus programs. McAfee and Norton are crap... stay away.
If you're paying, get ESET NOD32 or BitDefender... sadly Kaspersky is moving into the suck category with Norton.

 

yeah, i think that's what i got too. that is, i should've gotten... i called in and told them to leave the mcafee off my system... no bloatware for me

 

I didnt... but its ok it was my fault for getting the virus anyway.

Can you guys please recommened which drivers I download from somewhere else, meaning the drivers I see on Aliewares website may be old but im not sure which ones are... The video card for Nvidia 8800 is a given. But what about the others, please tell me which drivers i should get from another source if you can please. thanks...

 

The only drivers really worth updating IMO are Video and Chipset. So get the intel INF from Intel's website, get video drivers from Laptopvideo2go, and get the rest from AW.

 

well, the newest ones, obviously, no? i'd go the producers' sites (e.g. intel for wifi card, realtek for sound, synaptic for touchpad, etc) and get the newest driver you can find for the part you have.

 

Vista Audio Driver 6.0.1.5485
Vista Chipset Driver 8.3.0.1014
Vista Intel RAID Utility 7.5.3.1001
Vista Intel® GM965 Graphics Driver 7.14.10.1350
Vista On-Screen Display Utility 00020

Can you please direct me where to get the updated one for each of these, what is chipset driver and raid, ?? what is the on screen display utility ?

 

What's the m15x? Probably a 965 chipset right?
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2800&lang=eng
Just pick your OS.

 

the driver for the intel chipset...

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2800&lang=eng

don't know your OS etc, but i hope you'll find your way from there.

EDIT: you might also want the grab the driver for the IGP while you're on intel's site.

 

Thank you so much 4 your help so far guys, I would be lost without you!!! What is the Intergrated Graphics Processor? How do you guys know which one I need and where can I find it...


I would like to search for these things myself and know in the future instead of asking for help so please tell me how you know which drivers i need

 

Bump Please Help!

 

Open device manager...
What devices are not properly installed?

 

The best way to go about restoring drivers is to visit the MyHive page:

http://support.alienware.com/Support_Pages/Support_Area.aspx

If your Master CD is empty or defective, you can always call our Customer Service or Technical Support team to request a new one. If you don't want to go this route, you can always download the files individually and burn them to a CD.

 

Make sure you install the drivers in the correct order. For more information, please refer to this:
http://4help.alienware.com/cgi-bin/alienware.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=465&p_created=1069467184&p_sid=eF1Uz1ej&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MzUxLDM1MSZwX3Byb2RzPSZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX2ZubCZwX3NjZl82PTIwNSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWRyaXZlcg**&p_li=&p_topview=1

The integrated graphics is your built-in graphics card that you have on your motherboard. You can switch to it with FN + F7 after you have installed the OSD drivers. Switching to it saves your battery power, since it uses less energy than your dedicated graphics card.

Once you have switched over to the integrated graphics card, you can install the drivers for it from here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2800&DwnldID=16854&strOSs=153&OSFullName=Windows%20Vista*%20Home%20Premium,%2032-bit%20version&lang=eng

 

im going to cry

 

I know how you feel. When I had to reformat my desktop for the first time, I felt overwhelmed too, and hopeless. But, you will do fine. Or you can call up Roswell and have them do it with you over phone. They would be glad to help!

 

Are you planning to install 32bit or 64bit ?

 

I just installed 32bit windows and after installing all the drivers in order im getting a small problem..

When I restart the computer right before it gets into windows it sais
PXE E61 Media Test Failure Check Cable
PXE-MOF Exiting Broadcom PXEROM

im not sure what this means but either way it gets into windows..
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That is your Network Card trying to boot from Network. Go to BIOS and change the Boot Order, even if you have HDD as your first device change it to second , save then again change it to first, save, reboot

If that does not work then try to remove your battery from running machine, while it is on failure screen.

 

o could be i messed around with bios before and had no idea what i was doing, can you please tell me the exact order everything should be in please?

 

I can tell you once I reach home, do you see any "load defaults" or "load fail safe defaults" option in BIOS ? If you do then select it and it will reset everything

 

your a genius works perfect now!... finally im done formatting... i literally had to go home from my class and sit in my house for 5-6 hours straight formatting!!!