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From Alienware, for the m5550: NVIDIA Graphics Driver 8.6.2.8 NVIDIA Graphics Driver for Windows XP/MCE
Forgot to mention - I'm running XP Pro on that partition. Linux on the others.
Believe it or not, it runs on the m5550. You have to tone it down to a lower resolution but it does run. Haven't tried tweaking the settings yet.
Not on AW's US site as of today.
I run all Linux distros off of a bootable external USB hard drive. Currently i have Fedora, Ubuntu, PCLOS2007 and OpenSuSE 10.2 installed. By far my favorite is OpenSuSE. It seems to understand my hardware setup much better than the...
Is this the only operating system on your laptop? Do you have the laptop partitioned?
One is a dual-boot Linux/XP system that i game on and other stuff. The other is integrated into my home audio/video security system. This also allows flexibility if i ever had to send one of them back to AW for repair since they both...
The m5550 is as fast as i expected. About the only thing i don't like is the speakers - very tinny and cheap sounding. Plug in some headphones or good speakers and you forget about it, though. Newegg currently shows GeIL and Patriot...
Latest BIOS (2.07) seems to have fixed this issue as well as others. Also allows 4GB RAM. Contact AW Tech Support before updating the BIOS to keep your warranty in good standing. Easy as pie.
That may be the case. If your BIOS version doesn't explicitly state that it supports 4gb it probably won't. AW has just released a new bios version that supports 4gb for the m5550 - don't know about the 5750.
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