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post #161 of 279
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200th Post !!

Through delays in ordering, comming out of the box with issues, one repair attempt, a memory failure, and rocky second repair, I have met new friends, learned more about my system than if everything worked, and recieved a better appreciation for the work they are trying to do at Alienware. Their job is far tougher than I ever imagined. Hopefuly tomorrow will be special day for me.
post #162 of 279
It's getting on bed-time here now so I get to sleep through some of your waiting time CyberP Maybe there'll be some good news by this time tomorrow night ??? !!!

Might be time to get a bottle of bubbly in to celebrate just in case...
post #163 of 279
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Now it's the tricky matter of meeting up with the right space-time coordinates as the fedex guy, in amongst a hectic busy schedule (no small feat). I'll know tonight what my chances for delivery are. Well at least I get three chances to make the connection. ( I used up all my work - favors on the last two shipping runs )
post #164 of 279
Damn CyberP, by now I would have shot myself a long time ago. It's true that the people at Alienware have their hands busy due to all the orders and returns, but trying to zip through all the damaged computers really won't get them out of this mess. Sending your "order" three times for repairs IN A ROW just isn't acceptable wheather it's Alienware or any other business. I think we all know the problem at Alienware. The owners are just bathing in our money instead of hireing more people and opening more Alienware locations while the few employees that they possess are working their asses off. It just puts unwanted stress on both of us (the employees and the buyers).

Anyways enough of my bitching, good luck on getting your laptop back.
post #165 of 279
Well CyberP, is it back home yet?
post #166 of 279
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On FedEx vehicle for delivery !!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, things have to come together, me/wife home and fedex guy have to meet in coordination. That window is not in alignment yet.
post #167 of 279
Delivery time estimate? Today?

BTW, don't spill champagne into the keyboard

P.S. if this one is a dud I'm going to fall unconscious to the ground in shock
post #168 of 279
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I think we all will. I'll at least have some kind of stroke or coronary. But I have a very very good feeling. It's today as long as we don't miss the fedex guy.
post #169 of 279
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Mrs. CyberP has just informed me the box is here !!!! Now it's a game of Schrodinger's cat. what's the state of what's in the box ???? whose to know ??? (Alienware wisdom from the world of quantum mechanics !!!!!) Since I'm trapped at work final word will come tonight ! (Now I'm scared crap-less You can tell because I start quoting stuff like quantum mechanics )


Is the "cat" dead or alive ???? stay tuned to this channel for further updates !


Schrödinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. Schrödinger's cat serves to demonstrate the apparent conflict between what quantum theory tells us is true about the nature and behavior of matter on the microscopic level and what we observe to be true about the nature and behavior of matter on the macroscopic level.
Here's Schrödinger's (theoretical) experiment: We place a living cat into a steel chamber, along with a device containing a vial of hydrocyanic acid. There is, in the chamber, a very small amount of a radioactive substance. If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, a relay mechanism will trip a hammer, which will, in turn, break the vial and kill the cat. The observer cannot know whether or not an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, cannot know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. Since we cannot know, the cat is both dead and alive according to quantum law, in a superposition of states. It is only when we break open the box and learn the condition of the cat that the superposition is lost, and the cat becomes one or the other (dead or alive). This situation is sometimes called quantum indeterminacy or the observer's paradox: the observation or measurement itself affects an outcome, so that it can never be known what the outcome would have been if it were not observed.

We know that superposition actually occurs at the subatomic level, because there are observable effects of interference, in which a single particle is demonstrated to be in multiple locations simultaneously. What that fact implies about the nature of reality on the observable level (cats, for example, as opposed to electrons) is one of the stickiest areas of quantum physics. Schrödinger himself is rumored to have said, later in life, that he wished he had never met that cat.
post #170 of 279
CyberP, you are feeling sick ... yes ... sick ... uugghhh ... got ... to ... go ... home ... Mr.Boss ... got to go to bed ...


Get the idea CyberP?? Fake it, for the love of Goff. Somehow, get out of work and get home! We're dying here!
post #171 of 279
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did that the first time. and the second. I doubt I could get away again. We lost our sysadmin and I got pressed back into the tech game again (with my programming assignments still active). I guess they musta heard me flapping my big mouth over my tech past.
post #172 of 279
But don't your fellow techies understand. This is serious and one of the best excuses to skive off

Nevermind. When I roll up to work tomorrow I hope to be able to read up about* your happy ending CyberP


* during one of my breaks of course ehehehe
post #173 of 279
cyberP - you must be quaking at the thought of pushing that Power Button. Might I suggest you ask your wife to leave the house while you do your initial power up. She already has serious concerns over your sanity - your reaction to pushing the button is going to confirm her worst fears - no matter how it turns out! I'm not surprised you've reached for salvation in quantum mechanics - although there have been times in this saga where I would more aptly think you were living the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle...
post #174 of 279
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How about, I almost barf every time I even think about touching that button. (My wife would roll her eyes and tell me I was being meladramic if I tell her the way I feel about that peticular moment) I know it's just last minute jitters.
post #175 of 279
I know exactly - felt the same way when my Aurora 7500 came back after being in the hospital for 3 months! But, like you, I learned so much by trying to trouble shoot and read everything I could about the technology. And - the joy/relief when everything worked. I still run 3DMark benchies once in a while to see it go through all it's paces...

You will be fine - your karma is in the right place...
post #176 of 279
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I like using the "benchies" to show off the machine, non-computer people eat that stuff up. But it's damn hard to convince them it's not a movie.
post #177 of 279
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By Grabthar's Hammer We Live To Tell The Tale.

I have some very interesting news. I don't have time for much detail now so I'll just touch on a few points.

a) I now understand why many of you did not understand my first posts where I mention the "painfully bright blue lights on the lcd screen bottom. The previous Aurora case has green in place of blue and they are not too bright they are just right.

b) how do I know this fact, well I now have that case, in fact it was the case that was advertised when I ordered and the one I first expected.

c) Having most likely one of the first to have possesed both cases I can tell you the new (silver alien head case) is crap compared to the previous one. It's just built overall much better (thicker more sturdy), has a finish that's at least 5 times better, and just feels better all around. I am very happy I have the older (I think much much better case).

d) looks like I have a perfect screen !!!!!

e) I played freelancer with zero probs so far....

f) I have sucessfully made a respawn disk (ghost) of my current setup since I don't trust the image from the first computer setup has the same setup.

g) done a TOTAL disk scan and found the volume to be completely clean.

h) by doing the above the system ran for 3 hours nonstop hooked to external power.

I) ABOVE ALL ELSE BOTH DRIVES FUNCTION WELL. - however there is a neat story I will expand on later.

I'm still a bit nervous but the testing is going well thus far..... I'm still a bit gun-shy and will see how the next week or so goes !!!!

But it looks VERY GOOD SO FAR.

ps: I said just a bit ago "the new case is much crappier than the last design ! It's like night and day"
post #178 of 279


Glad to hear you are up and running again cyber. I haven't seen the new case as mine is the old (with the bright blue eyes, three of them across the bottom of the screen). Guess we'll keep those fingers crossed for a couple more days for you. Congrat man.
post #179 of 279
Excellent news CyberP! Congratulations on passing through Phase 5 of the "Checking New AW System" Phase game

"neat story I will expand on later" sounds a bit ominous though

Keep us posted
post #180 of 279
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Originally Posted by hulioni


Glad to hear you are up and running again cyber. I haven't seen the new case as mine is the old (with the bright blue eyes, three of them across the bottom of the screen). Guess we'll keep those fingers crossed for a couple more days for you. Congrat man.
Very interesting.... I have three green eyes on the bottom, the "newer case" had the three way-to-bright blue. which alienhead do you have black or silver ? I think my current system is a clevo 900K the first flawed one was a 900T I think.
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