Mine arrived on Wed. and got an RMA number that same night

. The sound would not work properly. On first boot, the welcome to Windows sound played nice and loud, but after that...Volume full blast and driver equalizer maxed out, if you put your ear on the speakers while playing a cd/mp3/dvd on full blast, you MIGHT just hear something...When wearing headphones with everything full blast you can hear it just slightly better, but its literally so low that its like a whisper across the room. I booted into a live distro of linux to see if it was a Windows issue, linux did the same thing. I reformated and reinstalled twice, once with the drivers on the cd, and once with newer drivers. No change. I mailed it back to alienware at their cost and it arrived the next day, which is nice. They are replacing the mobo :/. I should have it back by Wed. If I still have the problem...I guess I'll return it and get a macbook

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