Hi,
I've played with this laptop for about 2 years now.
It is the
P4 3.2ghz
1gig ram
60gb hd
gf 6800 go
The first major issue i've just recently started having was that it would randomly not power on correctly. It would continuously read the dvd/cdrom drive as it clicks before it even gets to the POST and Bios option screens. I had taken the laptop apart, cleaned it, and reassembled it and it ran alright for a few nights. Just randomly started happening again, this time I couldn't fix the issue using the same methods. Eventually while it was powered on and just not loading or getting to the post screens, I basically laid my arm down in disgust over the touchpad which is directly over the hard drive, and it loaded right up. Afterwards I've checked the area of the hard drive, in and around, seems to be fine, no dust no damage. For the past few months it's been on and off the same issue, where I would have to give it a love tap in order to get it to run at times.
At this point it's worsened, I went out and bought the new command & conquer 3. I had to make disk space before installing it so I got rid of a few other games which unwillingly. After removing the games, I had a good amount of disk space left to possibly defrag effectively, World of Warcraft has always had a real large 3gig file thats been hugely fragmented, I've installed C&C3 at this point already and still have about 17 - 21% free disk space. I start the defrag, the laptop freezes when it gets to 3% done. I have to reboot, starts up fine no issues. I load the game and it plays for about 15 minutes then freezes. Restart, load the game freezes just after the menu screens for the game. Now it is freezing when loading any type of large application, or scanning of the hard drive IE windows update/virus scan/defrag/games/check disk before OS loads. This leads me to believe there is possibly something wrong with the hard drive, but as this is my first laptop, I don't understand if this relates to the issue of not booting at times. I'm going to try and get hold of another hard drive and test to see if it runs better or at all, but should it not get to the POST/cmos/bios screens even without a hard drive plugged in? Or is there something different about laptops/alienware pc's?
I have the money to go build another PC, but I really would like to get this atleast working rather than having a $3,000 paperweight.
I work in tech support but only deal with internet connectivity issues. As it doesnt get to the post screens I would assume it is an issue with the motherboard, but then again why would it work at times and not at others, then yet again why would bumping the hard drive cause it to start up. Did the memcheck which passes, any other suggestions would be awesome.
I've played with this laptop for about 2 years now.
It is the
P4 3.2ghz
1gig ram
60gb hd
gf 6800 go
The first major issue i've just recently started having was that it would randomly not power on correctly. It would continuously read the dvd/cdrom drive as it clicks before it even gets to the POST and Bios option screens. I had taken the laptop apart, cleaned it, and reassembled it and it ran alright for a few nights. Just randomly started happening again, this time I couldn't fix the issue using the same methods. Eventually while it was powered on and just not loading or getting to the post screens, I basically laid my arm down in disgust over the touchpad which is directly over the hard drive, and it loaded right up. Afterwards I've checked the area of the hard drive, in and around, seems to be fine, no dust no damage. For the past few months it's been on and off the same issue, where I would have to give it a love tap in order to get it to run at times.
At this point it's worsened, I went out and bought the new command & conquer 3. I had to make disk space before installing it so I got rid of a few other games which unwillingly. After removing the games, I had a good amount of disk space left to possibly defrag effectively, World of Warcraft has always had a real large 3gig file thats been hugely fragmented, I've installed C&C3 at this point already and still have about 17 - 21% free disk space. I start the defrag, the laptop freezes when it gets to 3% done. I have to reboot, starts up fine no issues. I load the game and it plays for about 15 minutes then freezes. Restart, load the game freezes just after the menu screens for the game. Now it is freezing when loading any type of large application, or scanning of the hard drive IE windows update/virus scan/defrag/games/check disk before OS loads. This leads me to believe there is possibly something wrong with the hard drive, but as this is my first laptop, I don't understand if this relates to the issue of not booting at times. I'm going to try and get hold of another hard drive and test to see if it runs better or at all, but should it not get to the POST/cmos/bios screens even without a hard drive plugged in? Or is there something different about laptops/alienware pc's?
I have the money to go build another PC, but I really would like to get this atleast working rather than having a $3,000 paperweight.
I work in tech support but only deal with internet connectivity issues. As it doesnt get to the post screens I would assume it is an issue with the motherboard, but then again why would it work at times and not at others, then yet again why would bumping the hard drive cause it to start up. Did the memcheck which passes, any other suggestions would be awesome.
), i think the extream heat has alot to do with all the motherboard failures the D900T/K platform is prone to
