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    m17x-R1 Legacy Before Dell Alienware

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by nugent73, Aug 2, 2012.

  1. nugent73

    nugent73 Newbie

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    I am very frustrated about the issues im having. I saved up my money as in the Navy to buy myself my first and only Alienware Laptop for deployments in 11/21/2008 for 3600 dollars.
    I have nothing but issues form this very High priced POS. I cannot seem to find any new drivers for the hardware, BIOS for the motherboard, updates to the software and the crossfire doesnt work. After hours of searching on the internet it seems to me that I am out of luck. I upgraded the computer to Windows 7 and I have nothing but issues. Is there any updated anything for this computer or support at all? I am pretty sure I have a very expensive POS and I cant do anything about it. I am posting this just to confirm so I can stop searching and hoping for something to make this computer work with windows 7 and update drivers and the bios?
    Invoice | 446546


    1 | M 17
    1 | M17 17" WUXGA W/ CAM BLK-PNT
    1 | CPEN,INTEL QX9300 CPU,2530/1066,12M,FCPGA8
    2 | ELPIDA 2GB DDR3 PC2-8500 SO-DIMM 1067MHZ
    1 | M17 ATI RADEON M88 XT 512MB HD3870 MASTER
    1 | M17 ATI RADEON M88 XT 512MB HD3870 SLAVE
    1 | M17 (W840) CROSSFIRE CABLE
    1 | M17 BLUETOOTH MODULE
    1 | M17 ILLUMINATED KEYBOARD US
    2 | SAMSUNG 250GB 7200RPM FFS SATA HDD
    1 | 8X DVD+/-RW NEC AD-7590S SATA
    1 | INTEL SHIRLEY PEAK 3X3 AGN FULL MINI-CARD
    1 | VIN3 INTERNAL HIGH-DEFINITION AUDIO W/SS
    1 | WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM SP1 COA
    1 | WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM X64
    1 | ALIENRESPAWN V2.0 FACTORY INSTALL
    1 | CYBERLINK YOUCAM WEBCAM APPLICATION
    1 | COMMAND CENTER FOR VIN3
    1 | CROSSFIRE X
    Please any help or advice would be greatly appreciated
    Chris Nugent
     
    nugent73, Aug 2, 2012
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  2. protivakid

    protivakid Notebook Evangelist

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    What drivers are you missing?

    Do you have names for the component's that are missing or just "unknown device"?
     
    protivakid, Aug 3, 2012
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  3. nugent73

    nugent73 Newbie

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    Ok after days of working on this, and thank you to these forums, I have found and fixed all of the issues I have been having other than the following 2 issues it seems.
    1. I have 2 devices that still do not have drivers. Both are listed under Other Devices as Base System Device within the Device Manager. I am not sure what they are?
    2. ATI Catalyist control center does not give me any options or information if the two Video Cards are running in crossfire. It seems as if crossfire is not available.
     
    nugent73, Aug 7, 2012
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  4. protivakid

    protivakid Notebook Evangelist

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    The program hasn't been updated in a while but do a search for "Unknown Devices" and run it. It should tell you what the "unknown devices" really are. you can also google search using the hardware ID in device manager.
     
    protivakid, Aug 7, 2012
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  5. nugent73

    nugent73 Newbie

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    What program are you refferring to as not being updated
     
    nugent73, Aug 7, 2012
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    protivakid Notebook Evangelist

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    "Unknown Devices".
     
    protivakid, Aug 8, 2012
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  7. simonmpoulton

    simonmpoulton Notebook Deity

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    simonmpoulton, Aug 11, 2012
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