You can't surf lowyat.net when open the whole laptop either right?

hahaha...

Never heard of Alienware 14. M14x???

You can download the servce manual in below link

http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-prod...anual_en-us.pdf

Lastly, can you tell me how you going to view the manual beside print out? 

Anyone came up with any issues running Windows 10 on Alienware 14?

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.

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

Uh? If you set up the uefi installation environments properly (bios, w8.x installer, gpt disk) this screen will never appear.

Wait are you using w7 installer? w7 needs additional file tweaks on your usb, and it must be w7 sp1 or above for uefi install.

If you have chance to reformat, try to "die die also use USB". Coz format using DVD really very very slow.
USB is a lot more faster. Hehe...

If you able to format using USB, you are consider a "level up" 

The SSD caching is done by the Intel software. is not related to windows.

lol! ya, die die also use usb. w10 retail packs also have usb version dy haha

right, there are plenty of advantages and things you can do with bootable usb. it has better speed, never had disk error issues, and you can make changes on the fly to fit your needs. if you're like me who integrate windows updates into install.wim before install (to save time for downloading updates every time i do fresh installs), you can replace stock install.wim with new ones. if install.wim is too large to fit (fat32 has 4gb file size limit), you still can split it into 4gb per piece and combine them when you do the install, using dism. (normally for the same windows version, i just format the os partition, use dism to dump windows files from .wim into it. that's how windows is installed anyway)