Posts by DHAJ

Whatever Windows thinks is your default email program is what the quick lanch bar will start. Under Add/Remove programs -> Set Program and Access Defaults.

Yeah, I leave mine in too... despite knowing I'm hurting it. If I really wanted a thin & light laptop to run on battery a bunch of the time, I wouldn't have bought an m9700.

As new as your system is, I doubt you'd see any major effects of leaving it plugged in 24/7 right now. Lithium-Ion generally holds a charge for a long time and has a pretty slow self-discharge rate, so it's somewhat odd that our m9700s...

Thanks for the info, Groove75. I skimmed over the PDF and didn't see any warnings about using this utility with 2 drives in RAID0. Do you know of any problems this could cause?

It's also not a bad idea to unplug the AC adapter when it's not in use. I used to leave my old Alienware laptop plugged in all the time (on or off) and it greatly reduced the battery life. This isn't a design flaw, it's just how...

How much trouble is it to reduce the noise in the drives? I've got 2 100GB Hitachis in my m9700 and they make that clicking sound every now and then.

Try uninstalling your current video drivers and reinstalling the ones from Alienware's webpage. Then to make sure SLI is on, disable it, then re-enable it. For good measure, it might be helpful to check the 'show GPU load balance' box....

Everything sounds fine, Break. The GPU Load Balance should only show up while you're playing games with SLI profiles. It'll either be a horizontal bar that sometimes bounces with the varying load or 2 mirrored graphs on the left-hand...

Fn+F10 will toggle the Alienhead light. Pulling the battery would've just reset things like that to the default (on) state.

My 5620D also has the Radeon 9000 128MB card in it, which is why I thought the BIOS I posted would work. Since this BIOS you've found says it'll quit the program if your model doesn't match the model it's looking for, would it hurt to...