Posts by BenW

Likely your MB mate. You can try is a discharge but i doubt it would work as there is power going to it. Remove peripherals, mains power and also the battery and then hold the power button down for 30secs. Plug back batt + mains...

Have you made sure your on dual view rather than clone? The black screen may actually be your display? Try moving the mouse off the edge of the screen? Oh and is it an LCD monitor? You made sure the resolution is correct? I.e. if...

""ftp://www.alienware.com"" I think??

You need first make sure RAID is enabled in the BIOS, as either way you are using the Fasttrack controller if its in raid config or not. Then you need to get into the fasttrack array (cant remember how exactly but think its something...

Doubt it would be a power issue. More likely a temp issue. It can only take 5 secs for a modern CPU to overheat withough a heatsink/thermal paste/FAN. If you have run the pc for the "3mins" with no fan the pc should shut...

I doubt it was a driver if its lasting 30mins?!! U able to get a thermal utility to monitor the temp? Its strange just 30mins?? Would you say its like between 25 and 35mins WOTEVA your doing? Or is it more exact (30mins dead on)?? I...

BIOS: Laptops are 99% always F2 Desktops are 99% always DEL Partition magic for example can re-partition the HDD without formatting however the free trials may not give you all the functions?

Sounds about right to me. Mis-matched RAM. Glad your getting somewhere.

2 Post beeps on powerup suggests that the RAM has failed?! I think. Depends what BIOS you have but I would suggest try remove one module of ram (assuming you you more than one), and just test them individually to see if one is...

lol, is it just during use?? Ur not going into standbye or anything like that no? Its most likely just a feature on the laptop. Go to "ftp://www.alienware.com/Mobile/m5500/DOC/" and check the manual I think its likely to...