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On the right side, it just snapped off so there goes closing and opening the laptop. As if this thing hasn't fallen apart enough over the past two years. So can I get a replacement from any third parties? The warranty expired, and I would rather not deal with Alienware if I can help it. I don't have many good things to say about them, and even less if I have to actually talk to anybody from there.
Alright I disassembled that part of my 7700 tonight and believe I've found what you were talking about. Here's a photo for anybody else interested: So all you do is dismount your video card from the heat spreader. The video card is encased within a metal enclosure as pictured above, it can be divided without tearing the orange pull which _is not a seal_. It's just to make it easy to detach your video card. You can remove it just by spreading the enclosure along...
Can anybody translate this into english? What is a carter supposed to mean? Maybe try taking some photos to illustrate what you're talking about.
What a shock. Now why would they take a product they used to hype as the greatest thing ever and discontinue it.. I really wish there were legal recourse for 7700 owners to force a recall to go with that discontinuation. AW owes a lot of people a lot of money or replacements as far as I'm concerned.
I've been having wireless problems too, I use a PCMCIA adapter and when I tried to get on the public wifi here recently I was unable to connect after several tries and attempting to troubleshoot it, so I've yet to figure out what's going wrong. Have you tried right clicking the wifi icon in the task bar and refreshed the networks, or diagnose and repair the connection? The hibernation can be disabled or the behavior changed through the power options in the control...
Nevermind, took a desperate check through the cmos and noticed it had been inexplicably set to raid instead of ata. Great job Alienware! You excel in documentation as you do in designing laptops! Everything will be fine after restarting indeed. Just like playing games on my gaming laptop won't make it melt, right? That one never gets old no matter how many times my system overheats.
Can the motherboard be updated with new drivers? I did get the BIOS and keyboard drivers updated, and after a bit of extra hassle have my 7700 up and running again.
One quick question then, I've been searching the forum but can't find any examples of using the floppy for flashing the BIOS. Do you have any links to an explanation? The part that is confusing me is the BIOS image contains only two files, an autorun.inf that calls on explorer.exe to execute an mhtml document. Clearly this is not sufficient for booting if I copied them over to a floppy, so I'm pretty much stuck.
Mostly I'm interesting in gauging the risks, it did recommend that all USB devices be unplugged although I wonder if that's just to cover themselves against all possible situations, or if the USB ports would actually be disconnected during the flashing proccdure for whatever reason. If there's no risk involved in trying it I'm fine, but I would hate for the USB port to stop responding in the middle of flashing and brick the laptop. Purely speculative on my part but...
Is there any reason I shouldn't be able to extract said images to a flash media and boot from that? I know it's in the CMOS to allow booting from a usb flash drive, and I just don't have any blank media on hand right now and seriously need to get these updates installed ASAP.
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