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    m14x Drivers problem

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by deoscar33, Dec 20, 2011.

  1. deoscar33

    deoscar33 Newbie

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    Hi, meybe at first I told, that I'm not from USA, but Europe Poland, my english can be no good. Well... few days ago I bought Alienware m14x 2860,3GB 555GT and There where installed ENG Win7 Home Premium x64. I Formated this, because I'd like to PL version, and there is a problem: I got only Win7 CD, and I dont have any drivers support from Intel chipset or WIFI. I downloaded from dell.pl but I got truble with that- cant play Alien versus Predator 2010, because after few seconds I got bluescreen, other problem is my network card cant be detected. I wrote some topics in polish forums, but nobody has Alienware (unbelievable price).

    What I suppos to do? Can u help me which drivers I should download and from where? [ I'd like to only basic drivers: Intel, WIFI-network, and graphics: Intel graph and Nvidia and others which are neccessary ]

    Thank you in advance. :notworthy:
     
    deoscar33, Dec 20, 2011
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  2. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    Well, I'm not sure if Dell Poland's driver and download page is same or different, but just to be sure I can link you to the US site and Click Here to Dell US Driver & Download Page, then read this thread for: HOW TO: Clean Windows 7 Install (Driver Install Order) Guide for Alienware Systems, and this link here is for: HOW TO: Restore the Alienware 'Look and Feel' after a clean install of Windows 7 <- this one is optional but if you want to have the original "look and feel" of the laptop like the time you receive the laptop, then feel free to have a look at it after you done the driver stuff.

    And I think the reason your network card cant be detect is because of you might have not install its appropriate driver and for the game, did you whitelist the game in the NVIDIA Control Panel? Because you need to do that on most game to ensure that the game will run using the GT555M instead of the Integrate Graphic. Guide on how to whitelist the game can be found in my sig (the middle one :) ) It is very important that you must install all of the drivers on the laptop to ensure that it will work properly otherwise you will encounter problems like you having now. So try install those driver as instruct in that second and bold link and try your game again.

    This link is for the latest NVIDIA GT555M Driver: NVIDIA DRIVER 285.62 WHQL (Latest Stable Release)

    Hope this would help you.
     
    CGSDR, Dec 20, 2011
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