Alienware laptop can last very long if you take care of it well.
My M15x 2009 until now no problem

So cheap man! You ask your friend still got or not. I want!

its his used 1 ler... he where got so many used Alienware

hahahaaha... if he sees all these, he might think twice to sell it to me..
but i guess he already willing to sell it to his brother here at agreed price who is born same date same year as he is. hahaa. anyone born same date same year mayb can PM him to bid for the purchase

anywhere i can refurbish that thing? spend a few extra dimes to clean up the thing and shit.... lol
anyhow to make it more easier to carry around? im not gamer but since good deal just scoop it... can use in my room, got more privacy

I can do the refurbish stuff for you, repaste, clean, and apply a laptop skin for you. PM or whatsapp for more details.
I can send you some finished product too.

hey guys

seems like my X51 is acting up (or maybe that's what I thought)

I woke up one day, fire up my X51 and noticed that the display doesn't detect any signal from my GPU. I tried to swap the connecting points between my display (a Dell S2240L) with my the one on my GPU, and it still refuse to detect. turned it off, pop up the side cover and I removed my GPU and tried the HDMI port onboard, hoping that in any case my GPU is dead at least I can use the onboard graphics for a temporary workaround.

unfortunately the problem still persists so I though maybe it's the cable. got myself a RM19 v1.4 HDMI cable from Viewnet yesterday, and tried it on once I got home from work. the moment I plug it in, I noticed that my display instantly showing a message saying "going to power save mode". shut down the machine, and tried to boot it up again and still the same thing happen. I even took out the GPU again and tried the onboard HDMI port and yet nothing changes.


so the summary was like;

1) with old cable
- plug into GPU, no signal detected
- took out GPU, plugged into onboard HDMI, still no signal detected

2) with new cable
- plug into GPU, display straight away gone to power save mode
- took out GPU, plugged into onboard HDMI, display straight away gone to power save mode

what puzzled me was with the new cable, the display still going to power save mode even my X51 is not even turned on, both on GPU & onboard HDMI ports

done a quick google and a few forums/message boards suggested that either my GPU has died, or something wrong with my mobo/display

my X51 specs:
- Dell S2240L 21.5" 1080p display (HDMI + VGA, no DVI)
- Core i5-4460
- Radeon R9 270
- 8GB DDR3 RAM

sorry for the wall of text

Did you try to change monitor? I mean, how to tell if monitor is ok?

This post has been edited by e_mc_square: Aug 6 2015, 12:41 PM

there is NO ssd which come in life time. NONE.

I don't have any spare monitor/TV with HDMI support laying around, so gonna get help from a friend to bring over his laptop

Windows 10 working wonders on my Alienware 14. And all drivers work.

who know where got key replacement for m14x r2 ?

from the stock win 8 to win 8.1, then last week to win 10.
Take the plunge but on the setup for win 10 got error, cant get anything to boot up.
decided to revert back to the stock os (win 8) and somehow i think i deleted everything on the laptop, including (i think) the system recover stuff & the raid's

Now on windows 8.1, seems working fine but lost the raid. the whole week has been a mess for me, UEFI & legacy in my head for hours, but still didnt really understand it. now im on legacy boot mode, i wish i can get the raid function back. if anyone got a link or URL or tutorial for it, i would really appreciate it if you can share

some progress update.

borrowed my sister's laptop that luckily have a HDMI port. the exact same symptoms happen like when I plugged it to both my X51's GPU port & onboard port. suspecting it's the monitor's fault. gonna bring to shop where I bought from and ask them to check

I believe all Alienware laptop is RAID 0. Yours might be too.
RAID 0 can't be just "lost" without loosing all your data.
If RAID 0 broken, mean all your hard drive that configure related to that RAID 0 will broken.

And same thing, it can't configure just like "get the raid function back" you will need to format your whole hard drive that you wanted to RAID it to start.

When you boot up, there will be a screen with white and green word. Required you to press CTRL + I if not mistaken. From there, is where you setup your RAID. But always remember to back up your stuff to prevent unnecessary human error and cause all your precious data lost.

Im back to ask about same problem as on V11 hue,

X51 Early 2012 R1 , bricked bios, dell quoted me 800++ along with onsite, not worth it no ?

990m is coming. wow.

I think I came across some forums, saying that you can replace the mobo with an aftermarket one

the only issue would be finding the one with the perfect fit

and oh, the I/O ports too

For mine it seems got issue as the notification Get Windows 10 say my graphic card NVidia Geforce GTX 770M is not compatible with Windows 10. lol

have you tried downloading new drivers?

as for my X51, the only driver that I need to download once done with windows 10 upgrade is the graphics. I'm running Radeon R9 270 btw

I agree with @nihuhs, get your drivers to the latest version before Windows 10 through NVidia Experience or Dell Support site.

uefi install is easy once you understand the concept. first of all, back up all data, because steps that follow will wipe everything. first of all, for uefi install to work you need 3 things: 1. uefi bios; 2. bootable usb with install media that can do uefi install; and finally a target disk that is gpt type. to avoid any data loss issues due to carelessness, take out all data disks, and leave the os disk untouched.

1. make a bootable usb with your w8.1 dvd or iso. format the usb with fat32, and copy the contents of dvd/extract the contents of iso directly into your usb. that's it. you have a bootable usb that can do uefi install hehe
2. make sure the bios is set to uefi. you can turn legacy off, and turn secureboot on. don't turn fastboot on first. do this later. for sata operations, select raid if you wanna do ssd caching or raid.
3. boot the machine with usb plugged in and spam f12 key on boot. in boot selection menu, choose your usb entry, usually labelled as uefi to continue.
4. once in the windows install screen, press shift+f10 to bring up administrative command prompt. type diskpart and press enter. you will be in diskpart prompt after this. follow the commands in blue below and press enter key.
5. type list disk and identify your os disk and caching ssd. remember the disk numbers.
6. type sel disk x (where x is the disk number of your os disk or caching ssd. if it's a single disk it should be 0)
7. type clean. this will clear everything. all your previous system partitions, folders, files, disk type will be gone for good.
8. repeat step 6 to 7 for your caching ssd.
9. type exit twice to get out of diskpart and command prompt. now continue your os installation as usual. the installer will make the os disk a gpt type for uefi install, and apply default layout properly.

that's all. once you're in windows, install all drivers as usual. (start with intel chipset, rst driver and software, and intel me) install .net framework 3.5 from programs and features first before installing aw osd display thing and command center.

now, follow the tutorial, http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN131651/EN to enable ssd caching.

well no. not all alienware laptops come with raid 0. raid 0 means you stripe 2x identical disks to become one. raid is common in aw because is used to do ssd caching using intel rst software.

edit: to create a bootable usb for legacy w7/8.1/10 install, you just need to format the usb with ntfs.


This post has been edited by horns: Aug 12 2015, 10:35 PM

Follow the steps but when starting the is installation got this