Posts by mackdjm

Does anyone know where another case for an area 51m can be purchased other than via Alienware? And who is the manufactor of the case.

I'v had alot of these same problems happen to me. I ended up sending the laptop back to AW the week after I got it. Took them 2 months to finally decide to cancel the order and build me a new one... But I won't go into that... 4...

where do you get the catalist

So did you redo windows because of problems with sp2... or did you want a fresh copy to put sp2 on?

Yes that should fix the admin problem... what about screen savers not working

Ok what does that mean???

Heres the problem. I just noticed that everytime I start up my laptop it logs me directly into the Administrator account (XP Pro). I created a few other users, made Administrator folders private and changed log in type to select user...

the one that says mini PCI driver (incass your not sure)

Good news (at least for me) Went and downloaded the latest driver from AW and my spikes have stopped. Go to drivers download area choose mobile, alienware corp, area 51m (766), and download the latest

I have noticed it too... I'v had my laptop for 3 days now. finally after 3 reformats I finally realized that the Internal Wireless card was causing the problem. I have an external card that I plan on trying tonight... AW response is...