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post #21 of 24
5/19/09 at 1:52am
The prices have fallen a great deal since I was looking to upgrade. Even a regular T7600 or T7400 would give a big boost in performance. With that BIOS flashed the overclockable 2.33 would be very tempting.
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post #22 of 24
5/22/09 at 11:20pm
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For anyone that manages to come across this thread, here is the information on ordering the Alienware 5750 SATA cable and Caddy:

Website: Http://www.Ztronics.com
Address: 2080 S Grand Ave - Santa Ana, CA 92705 USA
Description: Sata cable for 5750 / (5700 series)
Part Number on the physical cable: 29-UJ0087-10 N/B

My cost was $60.00. It came with the aluminium caddy, 4 screws for the hard drive, the Sata PCB, and the data cable. (1 side labeled "MB" for the mother board).

I need to use my system tonight as-is for 2 shows, and tomorrow for my regular DJ gig... so I won't set it up until Sunday or Monday. I got it mounted and plugged in. Booted no problem even though it's not configured... Logged into Ubuntu. I can see the drive, but can't mount it yet... so as expected.

Raid 0 here I come! I'll be using 2 Western Digital Scorpio Black - 7200 RPM - 320GB Hard Drives. The benchmark for the drives were very quick which is why I chose these. Both were manufactured with the exact same information printed on the drives except the Serial Numbers. (Even manufactured in the same month.) I'll keep you all posted on the benchmark speeds for it. I already have the benchmark done with the original drive to compare it to.

I can't wait!

- Pixel -
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post #23 of 24
6/12/13 at 5:39am
Well as Pixel_6 said sometime in the future someone will read this for reference, well here I am going to go ahead and try the flash in the near future. Being this is 4 years later the loss of my AW would be mentally painful its not that great of financial hit it would have been back in 2009. I post either way on success or failure.
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post #24 of 24
6/14/13 at 11:36am
Well the Bios Flash look like it went perfectly and began with new Alienware Screen most likely from the M5790 and then I got the dreaded password prompt. Been trying all sorts of ways to get around password prompt (pulled CMOS battery, etc.) but so far no way in sad.gif

Looks like the M5750 with new X1900 video card and 2 fresh sticks of memory 4GB is now a nice looking paperweight.
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