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Alienware M7700 D9T General Help

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3/29/11 at 12:23pm
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Hello fellow aliens, i've recently purchased a used area51 m7700 on ebay regardless of its slight dating its a great rig.  However the ati x800 in it doesnt have the shader 3.0 i need for certain newer games and am looking into upgrading it to a nvidia quadro, but my homework shows that there isnt a lot i could do for it other than replacing the motherboard yada yada.  I already upgraded the ram from 1gb (2x516) to 3.5gb (3x1gb+516mb) which has helped more than i thought it would, i was looking into getting another hard drive since the 40gb i have is almost full but have a 320 external which works fine just cant raid0 it to the rig at least right now.  I was thinking about taking it out of the casing and installing it but not sure if that would work.

 

So my question is, what can i do about my graphics card problem, and the front LED  board wont come on ive turned it on in the bios but still get nothing.

 

VKO

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3/29/11 at 12:35pm
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Another thing, i've got fiber optic internet and i'm pretty sure that the 56k wireless modem inside the rig isn't as fast as i really want it to be, what are my upgrade options for that if there are any?

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3/29/11 at 11:43pm

A 56K modem refers to just that; a modem. Your wireless would be through a wireless card in the machine which would be either 802.11b, g, or maybe n/draft n. That would be a function of how fast your card is, AND the wireless access point that you are connecting to. In all likeliehood, that would be 802.11g which is theoretically supposed to top out at 54Mps, which even at it's typically throughput of about half that would be quite a bit faster than a modem using dialup. I don't know what your situation is, but I'd bet that you have a "modem" that the provider hooked you up with that talks to the service through your fiber-optic connection.


I don't remember what the M7700 is specifically, but I'd guess that it uses a PCI-E card, and if that is true you'd be able to replace that with an 802.11n card and get going at a faster speed as long as your access point is capable of that. The other thing you have to be aware of is that even if you have an "N" capable AP, if you have other machines in the house connecting to is that's slower....say "G" speed or even "B" speed, that box will default to the slowest connection. Hope that helps. I'm about to start work on a M7700 myself; as soon as it shows up and I find enough parts to get it going :).

 

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