Yea, but kinda sucky eh that a netbook also has better touchpad xD.

Well Doc I wish I could be thankful to God for giving me a problem free system but I guess I WAS Chosen to face it.

And The DELL Engineer tested my unit with me just now and it was confirmed a MOTHERBOARD Problem and he asked if I wanted it changed? I had no other options so I say YES Ok get it changed.... he was quite friendly and took out a new Motherboard wrapped in bubble wrap. I checked it and it looked in good condition and nothing was rusty or worn out so I didn't bother about the REFURBISHED or not question as the Engineer said it was NEW.

So he removed the bottom cover first and you could see the heat sink etc.........


Then he operated on removing the other covers and before you know it....









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After putting it back all again, while exercising caution, its all working fine now.

He has no answers regarding the ENTER key or the power causing the Throttling issue and said the idea of using a 200W Adapter was new to him. So I guess those 2 things are still a mystery.

So, just wanted to share my experience with you guys and hope this buries all my problems. I can rest at ease now.....

really great sharing dude!
pictures tell everything
hope your problem will blown away after this.

problem with mobo on new laptop?
hm surely not your luck this time.

So what was your problem originally? How did the change of MB help?

where is the link to update bios? i think i saw sumwhere but could find it.

did i miss anything beside that update?

m15x use how many cells of battery? kinda smaller to m17x.. *juz by seeing it lar*

6 cell or 9 cell batery

so far no....made in florida!

Thanks. Yes, pics tell a whole lot more do they?
I really do hope the problem ends here.
So far its been good, and the battery which I got a new one, and the new mobo is working well and there's no hanky panky like the last one. Problem with a MOBO in a new lappie isn't good news when you've paid so much for it. But Since I got a new one which works well, I'm happy that I have a working Alien now which can work with batt or with AC or both without worrying about short-circuiting issues.....


Helped with being able to detect presence of battery.
With being able to run on AC and BAtt and that power will switch to BATT when Adapter is taken out halfway thru use, unlike previously when the adapter was taken out and the whole notebook justs goes blank.
However, while running RE5 on my lappie, when I take out the adapter and let it run on BATT, I see a significant fall in performance and the fps just drops to half....

@julchin_09
Have u ask bout the adapter issue?

Yup. I wrote it together in the post with the pics. Engineer has no clue..... He brought a same 150w charger to my place...

Sry..i miss it...anyway tq..

My New M17x, hoho, setting it up, and going to do operation on tmr for QX9300, 8GB RAM

i can only ...

me 2..

killer laptop you have there, putochip

So far, Lappie is working flawlessly....... I guess the Mobo change did do wonders for my unit.....
Will test it again later tonight when I get back.... and i will monitor for the coming week.... But by the looks of it, the Mobo change has solved my problems except for the ENTER key issue which I have yet to encounter.....

btw, had you ask the engineer how much is the cost to replace mobo if the warranty already been voided?
just curious

wan make a video for how to operate the laptop? anybody wan?

notebookreviews forum already had tht. video by the moo. btw. nice notebook. 8gb overkill?