Search

Recently I noticed that the system fan on my R4 was running very loud while playing games. After reading through the forums I decided to take the liquid cooling pump out and take it apart.  I found that it was partially clogged so I cleaned it up and applied fresh thermal paste to it and the C

So I've had a problem lately where whenever I play Overwatch, or possibly any high-load game but I've mostly noticed it with that, my motherboard temperature can reach 80-82C. Usually it remained in mid-high 70s while playing but just recently it's gotten like that. First of all, is it cause for co

I just got a new alienware laptop and I use it to play Overwatch. This weird circle is in the middle of it. It didn't come with this... it just suddenly showed up. Restarting it didn't work and nothing came up when I looked it up. Would anyone know what this circle thing is called and how to tu

from 5 days ago my system start to make the 2 beeps sound at start, that means my system is not recognizing the ram, so i opened it and cleaned the contacts with a soft eraser, its strange because i have never had to deal with this problem before. i inserted ram again and the error persisted, so i l

After installing new drivers my once working eye tracker no longer works and wont turn back on?

Hi all, was looking at upgrading my Aurora r3 from 580 to 970 card. Here are my specs.       Aurora R3 circa 2011 CPU etc are Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz Clock Speed 3.4Ghz L2 Cache Size 1024 &nb

Love my brand new 15r! I went for the UHD display, seem to love that so far except for 1 problem. I think I figured out thats why every game I try to play at steam seems to have the same problem, tiny tiny text and dialog boxes on every cool game ive tried so far. I cant even read them if i try t

I cant figure out how to get my battery to charge more than 60%. I have a new r15 but it only charges to 60% and for the life of me I cant find anything to change that in the computer?

Have already update and reset the audio driver but it still not work. Have tried 3 headset make sure it is not my headset's problem.

Hi there! I'm using an Alienware 17 R3 Laptop with the IPS LCD Panel in 1080p. Unfortunately today I found out a dead pixel. The matter is not much for me at the moment because sometime I almost fogot about it. But I stil have a question: Is it possible to replace the curent panel with a new 4K

Just bought the Aurora r5 with a stock 1TB Seagate hdd with win10 home ed, sitting on sata1. So I installed a Samsung 850 Evo sata600 ssd on sata4 and successfully cloned the hdd onto the ssd using Samsung Magician. At first the ssd was disabled by Windows so I enabled it using Windows own disc mana

Can someone please tell me what 128gb m.2 SATA 6gb/s SSD used in the alienware 15 r3? I bought it on black friday and at the time it didn't have an option for a 128gb, just 256gb and up, and so I went with the 1tb hdd. Now that I see the the power of an ssd (I'm new to the pc master race) I would li

I recently bought an Alienware 15 R3 2016 laptop with SATA hdd. Now i would like to add an SSD drive. I have two questions about this: 1. Would "Crucial MX200 M.2 T2280 SSD - 500GB" be compatible with my system? 2. Can i use both drives in parallel - i would like to ADD the SSD, not REPLACE the cu

I want to add an 2.5 inch hard drive to my Alienware Aurora R5. I just open the case and find the place to install it. But the problem is there is no cable as shown on the youtube video. I know I have to purchase SATA cable and plug-in to mother board. But where to find the power cable. Should I pur

Hi I have ordered an R5 without drives just a M.2 card. I would like to install 3 SSD's in it. I know there are 2 trays where you can install an SSD but is it possible to install an SSD in the HDD tray or that tray just accepting HDD?

new bought Alienware 13 R3 makes noise when playing music, watching movies, or playing games, sometimes when opening applications or new tab in a browser, this disappears when the laptop is muted. except for those noise from speaker, it makes noise with a rhythm, this noise is not coming from the s

Hello. My name is Tom and I am working on an Alienware X51 R2 for a friend. The problem is that it will not power on.  When the power button is depressed, it powers on momentarily, spinning the CPU and power board fans, but then immediately shuts off.  I have unplugged in turn the optical

Hi all, I'm the new proud owner of a brand new AW 17 R4, top of the range laptop, thanks to my new job! I went for the 4.1Ghz CPU upgrade so as I do a lot of single thread work (web development) and I'm not really a gamer, I just wanted the extra power. However, using the Intel Extreme Tuning Ut

Hi,I've just migrated to a new laptop (Alienware 17 (1Y1DPF2) with a mobile GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card). The out of the box driver for the GTX 1080 is too old to support NVidia CUDA programming. I've tried to get later drivers a couple of ways: (1) via the Windows 10 device manager. This find

So I've had my Aurora 3 for about 3-4 years and I've been having some issues with the video cards. I currently have 2 Geforce GT 545's running, but it feels like 1 is always taking all the load when running games. I've tried to run them in SLI mode and it seems like it overwhelms or overheats the sy