Posts by reerun865

That is what i needed. I will attempt to put thermal paste on both the video card and the chip. I just now cleaned out all the fans and the paste where it meets the heatsink and chip does need to be replaced. Once i get this done ill...

thanks for the advice. Is there a link with some pics which can guide me in doing this? where does the paste go on the cpu?

i have looked for a week on these forums and i have tried most of the fixes but to no avail. A couple of weeks ago while playing wow my laptop would just shut off. Once it shut down i was unable to get it back on. I came here and...

the first thing you should do is to give the police the serial number so that they may check with the pawn shops. Here at my police dept. the pawn shop unit goes to ever pawn shop and check their inventory as well as their data base and...

i bought the m7700 in dec 2005 and after 6 moths the mobo fried on me and then a couple of months later the disc drive quit reading. Alienware resolved these issues with no problems at all. After further research and probing into these...

Thanks so much for actually clearing this up for us. Some of us noobs dont need to be doing this but at least now i now what to expect and have done. I appreciate the step by step for us that are eager to learn. Some of these folks in...

go to the website and post it. They wont offer to fix it but they will give you some help. Sorry about not being much help. Go to the top of the forums and click search...then type in "battery" and it will show dozens of poeple...

I have a similar problem so i went to the alienware website and i posted in their technical forums. I was told to reseat the battery and i did. That worked. The battery started to charge again. I do not use my laptop away from my desk...

Please give us an update on this as soon as you fix it.

One year this month. 1. Replaced optical drive with no problems and great cs and fast shipping 2. Replaced motherboard with no prblems/great csand yet again fast reapir work at the depot. I love my alienware. Everyone says i paid to...