Posts by scotty91

I flashed mine just after I got it, and it has since been back to alienware for a repair, so I doubt it personally

Sounds like they will be absolute beasts then. I know my 7700 is a beast, not so much in power anymore, but in size and weight, it will always be a beast :P

I installed vista on my laptop, albeit its the intel version, but I managed to get everything to work by just installing the xp drivers (although i installed the 32bit version of vista). Try looking for drivers for 64bit vista, and if...

Thats one nice system Congrats and Welcome

Something similar happens to my 7700. When its fully charged, it just will not power up off battery. The Alien head lights up for 2 seconds, then it goes off. Although absolutely no problem with using the power adaptor. Its back to AW...

Looks like an awesome laptop! congrats

yeah thats what i was afraid of Would they know if i replaced it, and if something went wrong, just to put the old chip back in? or does it break a seal or something. I'm just about to send my 7700 back to AW anyhow, as the graphics...

ok thanks for the fast reply. Looks like im going to wait a while then for the 600 series price to come down and then i'll upgrade.

Hello I have a Area-51m 7700 laptop with a 3ghz Pentium 4 CPU (500 series) and i'm looking to upgrade the chip. What series processors do these laptops support? Would a dual core processor such as this work?...

I just checked my plug on my power adapter aswell, and yes, I have the burn marks on one of the prongs. I'm not happy with this so i'm gonna give AW a ring in the next few days. Now im glad I just extended my warranty to 3 years..