Posts by nonya24

Okay apparently DDR stands for double data rate and it is supposed to be 533MHz, then it is multiplied by two.

Quote:Originally Posted by Steve Can you set the RAM freq back to the 1066? Haven't tried, honestly I've never went to the overclocking tab in the BIOS. The wierd thing is all my games are running fine, it the freq were wrong I...

I have never even tried to overclock this machine before, but it is starting to give me a message in the BIOS saying "Overclocking failed". I usually then have to discharge the power, then it will get to Windows and the CPU speed will...

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p it could be the DVD drive as well but you should definitely back up your files just in case. any maybe consider upgrading the drive anyways It doesn't sound like it's...

My M17x has been making a clinking sound for the past couple months and I have been just ignoring it (bad idea), but now it's starting to bother me. It comes from the touchpad area and I believe it might be a Hard drive. I've done...

Download here. Quote: Copyright (C) 2011, All Rights reserved. www.dell.com ======================================================= ================================ BIOS Release...

Okay I downloaded the newest drivers from Nvidia, and turned PCI-E 2.0 off, and I have not got a black screen yet. I have not seen the throttling issue since, but if I do I will then apply the EC patch. EDIT: For Googlers: I resolved...

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p There is a A06 BIOS out, fixed some issues with the Charger and Battery not charging. As I mentioned in the other thread, you may have a issue with the secondary GPU It's not...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn Are there any patches made available for the game? cheers ... I Already have them.

Update: I seen in GPU-Z that the second GPU load drops to 0%. I turned "Prefer Maximum Performance" on instead of "Adaptive" and it seems to be Running the Crysis 2 demo fine so far. Update 2: Crysis 2 is running...