Posts by Devoran

lol this thread has turned into a bit of a joke. I think perhaps everyone should put away their e-wangs and leave it alone. While I don't necessarily agree with the OP's approach, I do sympathise with his issues (I'm a 7700 owner after...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hammerhead EDIT: I may be thinking of something other than repairs... I think you can add additional drives to a RAID5 array, and it redistributes the data automatically... ...

Absolutely, the rev 6.1 (latest) motherboard fixed a few other issues, including a power-related capacitor problem (which is what my first motherboard died due to). Also the Go 7800GTX/7900GTX modules far outperform the 6800's. If...

Quote: Originally Posted by klrpolice I have a FX-60, geforce 7800gtx, 1 HDD 100GB at 5400, planning to upgrade to a 7200rpm, and it never runs hotter than 36C when gaming. It idles around 28C at a room temperature of...

Definitely the 5790, another vote.

Do yourself a favour though and try and get either a 7800 or 7900 vid card, as opposed to the 7950. The 7950 has the same problem as the 6800 ultra, they tend to blow 'cos of heat problems. The 7800 is the most heat efficient, closely...

I'd take it one step further and say I'm not sure why people adopt an operating system that's in its infancy. You won't catch me using Vista before it's had a good year or two in the market and one or two service packs to fix up all the...

With Vista and Alienware's vista drivers both being so new, my recommendation would be to bugger them both off and switch back to XP for a good few months. Problems like this are always apparent when OS/drivers are so new.

If you want the Alienware specific BIOS'es, look in the sticky threads at the top of this forum, the one marked Aurora 7700 download in particular

IRQ messages usually relate to some sort of peripheral conflict - are you using the onboard sound, or a creative PCM card or similar? I would try disabling the sound completely and see if you still get a BSOD, at least then you would...