- Jul 29, 2016
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Okay so I recently got an Alienware M17x R1 or R2, I don't know which one it is (I will provide specs below if interested) from Craigslist about 2 days ago for $150 (sweet) off a guy who said the hard drive didn't work. When I picked it up he had put an HDD in it with Windows 10 and said it was working fine and he had put the drivers on the desktop so I could install them later.
Turns out he gave me the drivers for an R4 and Alienware doesn't even support drivers for Windows 10 on the M17x anyway, regardless of model. I was going to put my own SSD in it anyway so I put Windows 7 on it and replaced the hard drive.
(First Problem) When I looked at the back to see where the battery is so I could take it out, I noticed that there was no switch to take it out of its socket.
(Second Problem) I noticed a second slot on the hard drive area for another hard drive to go, so I said "sweet, I'm gonna put another hard drive in this baby" but noo. Apparently the second slot requires a missing proprietary adapter you can find NOWHERE. I found one thread that had the same type of connector but I believe he had the adapter for it: http
/www.overclock.net/t/1197422/
So that idea was gone.
(Third Problem) Another problem I knew about from the start is that the power circuit board was taken off. Luckily I asked the guy if he had it, because he found it in some bag downstairs, mostly intact. Right now I have to abrade the power ribbon on metal to turn it on/off. After I pried the battery off with leverage and got my SSD in etc. I downloaded drivers from this page I found (forgot the address) and got everything running; laptop colors, Alienware Command Center, GPUs, SLI, etc.
I noticed my wireless network driver was not working properly. It wasn't picking up any WiFi connections. I uninstalled it and Ethernet cable'd my laptop so it could reinstall proper drivers, but to no avail. I guess this guy completely didn't care about this laptop's aesthetic condition, because the screen was smudged to s--- when I got it. Lots of screws are missing everywhere I look, and there are just missing bits and pieces. Any help on anything listed here would be much appreciated.
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @2.3GHz
4 Gigabytes of DDR3L RAM
Geforce GTX 260M + Radeon HD 6970M
Sandisk 128GB Solid State Drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
~Daniel
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Turns out he gave me the drivers for an R4 and Alienware doesn't even support drivers for Windows 10 on the M17x anyway, regardless of model. I was going to put my own SSD in it anyway so I put Windows 7 on it and replaced the hard drive.
(First Problem) When I looked at the back to see where the battery is so I could take it out, I noticed that there was no switch to take it out of its socket.
(Second Problem) I noticed a second slot on the hard drive area for another hard drive to go, so I said "sweet, I'm gonna put another hard drive in this baby" but noo. Apparently the second slot requires a missing proprietary adapter you can find NOWHERE. I found one thread that had the same type of connector but I believe he had the adapter for it: http
/www.overclock.net/t/1197422/So that idea was gone.
(Third Problem) Another problem I knew about from the start is that the power circuit board was taken off. Luckily I asked the guy if he had it, because he found it in some bag downstairs, mostly intact. Right now I have to abrade the power ribbon on metal to turn it on/off. After I pried the battery off with leverage and got my SSD in etc. I downloaded drivers from this page I found (forgot the address) and got everything running; laptop colors, Alienware Command Center, GPUs, SLI, etc.
I noticed my wireless network driver was not working properly. It wasn't picking up any WiFi connections. I uninstalled it and Ethernet cable'd my laptop so it could reinstall proper drivers, but to no avail. I guess this guy completely didn't care about this laptop's aesthetic condition, because the screen was smudged to s--- when I got it. Lots of screws are missing everywhere I look, and there are just missing bits and pieces. Any help on anything listed here would be much appreciated.
Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 @2.3GHz
4 Gigabytes of DDR3L RAM
Geforce GTX 260M + Radeon HD 6970M
Sandisk 128GB Solid State Drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
~Daniel
[Moderator: long wall of text with no spaces edited to make it more easily readable]
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