Shud hav removable battery. Duhh.

haha...i still do not understand why they remove it as most people I heard using it previously says the desktop mode is good

anyone own alienware amplifier? hows the performance?

notes: for alienware m17x r4 owners; the driver list that i posted previously (here) still works fine for w10 creator update (1703)



have fun

nice @horns! . early access w10 CU huh?

yes running the same thing for weeks on my aw18 already; it's running fine after patch hehe

to make w10 run even snappier, at least turn off all services that you don't need and stuff running in background. (e.g. uninstall whatever apps that you know you will never click on them; check out blackviper.com service list; also check out all options in all settings)

Anyone encountered disk read error after windows update? Pc ocassionally hangs and restarted into black page(disk read error) , press ctrl;+alt+del

sounded like failing disk to me; don't think it's caused by windows update.

i installed all updates for all machines; all running w10. nothing happened.

Yesterday working all good tho. Then today suddenly become like that after i updated. Only when running dota, else is okay. And yeah i updated the nvidia driver too.

Maybe try run sfc /scannow at admin cmd prompt and see if it helps. Also if you haven't already, scan the disk and see if it reports disk errors. You can also run crystaldisk info to check disk smart status.

Anything unusual?
Could it be the new nvidia update that is meant for the creator's?

This post has been edited by Jay Chua CC: Apr 11 2017, 10:38 PM

Nothing bad it seemed. Have you run sfc /scannow? That command could help fix system-related issues sometimes. If you think it's due to nivida update, just uninstall it and test using older driver.

Not yet. Btw the nvidia only have option reinstall and not uninstall. At the Geforce experince rite?

When i restart, it came to this evrytime. Have to force shut down and on to get to the desktop.

from the picture your bios setup was messed up somehow. you should turn pxe boot off, unless you really run your machine with it. check the bios and see if you can see your hdd listed.

i never used gfe before. you can use ddu, http://www.wagnardsoft.com/ to remove the gpu drivers in safe mode.

Why there is third drive? Before this dont have also

i suspect it's your recovery partition; not a third drive.

why is it named so weirdly? with all those symbols.

that weird names are based on the microsoft way to name volumes. try use search engines to find out more.

what's the outcome of your original problem (hdd read error)? have you fixed it?

also, try to tell me in details what you did before you had 'the third drive'. without details the trouble shooting process to find out actual problems and right solution will take a long time. you can use the same details to look up with search engines. probably others had the similar problems as yours and solutions have been found.

i oredi in win 10 creator update.. so far quite good.. can notice the improvement compared to my old win 10.. just need to reinstall a few driver to make it perfect.. (wacom driver, font generator , etc)

Before i did a clean reinstall of windows there is no third recovery drive there. It appears after i wiped out everything and reinstall windows.
The main problem, freezing, slowing, crashing into blue screen, read disk error, and pxe boot came right after i update into windpws crwator and the nvidia latest update. Tried nearly evrything, troubleshooting, checking drives, clean reinstall all also to no avail. Then i try revert back to the previous nvidia driver. Seems to be okay for now. Try restart , able to boot into desktop, before this sure came out read disk error and pxe thingy a few times.
Seems like many ppl having issues after updates too.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/10...vers-issues-/2/

Anyway, contacted dell for follow up my problem. Dem, there are super slow in replying unlike Apple counterparts. Guess warranty already ended so they no layan. haha

This post has been edited by Jay Chua CC: Apr 16 2017, 11:34 PM