Alienware M17x-R2 A10 BIOS Unlocked OC Options

[TheWiz]

Not yet guys, still doing some research and catching up on a lot of other BIOS requests.

Thanks,
TheWiz

[Cheater]

YUP ty thewiz we appreciate your hard working and time for us so plz dont let us down and our R2 outdated

[Cheater]

WE want CF 6970 or sli 470gtx do ur best thewiz and dont forget us

[XereX]

Is it possible to buy the ATI 6970 anywhere on the net at all ?
Havent been able to find it anywhere yet.
Would be interesting if the bios got unlocked to allow the cards with crossfire

[Cheater]

yea about buying ati 6970 .. check ebay and if the CF Dual 6970 impossible for the PS to handle we will check sli gtx 470 they arent bad at all

[svl7]

Is it possible to buy the ATI 6970 anywhere on the net at all ?
Havent been able to find it anywhere yet.
Would be interesting if the bios got unlocked to allow the cards with crossfire

Check mxm-upgrade, they have the card at stock. The upgrade site from eurocom would be an option too, but I don't know whether they have them atm.

[XereX]

Hey The Wiz..

Any news on that documentation for the new features yet? :-)

You were talking about a pdf file or something, with all features described...

/XereX

[TheWiz]

Hi guys,

There will be new information coming out. I have been extremely tied up this week and am a bit behind on all the BIOSes running aloof. I'll keep you posted.

TheWiz

[Tilla]

Hi Thewiz,

I flashed the bios of my m17x r2 to your mod last week, but since then I have problems with hibernate.

When I restart from hibernate, I get a critical error. I get the question if I want to start in safe mode, and back in Win7 I get a message that the system has recovered from a critical error (bluescreen, which I never see because the screen turns black as soon as I put it into hibernate).

Event viewer gives me these details:

Critical 13/03/2011 12:02:50 source:Kernel-Power eventID:41 task category63)

Details:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-03-13T11:02:50.378013800Z" />
<EventRecordID>30984</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Michel-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">159</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x3</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffffa8003bfd060</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xfffff80000b9c518</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xfffffa800ba99010</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">true</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">129444672912221540</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Any ideas how to fix this? I really love that you unlocked all options in Bios, so it would be quite a bummer if I had to roll back to Dell's A10.

kind regards,
T.

ps it's a 520m cpu with 5870 gpu & 4g ram.

[XereX]

Hi Thewiz,

I flashed the bios of my m17x r2 to your mod last week, but since then I have problems with hibernate.

When I restart from hibernate, I get a critical error. I get the question if I want to start in safe mode, and back in Win7 I get a message that the system has recovered from a critical error (bluescreen, which I never see because the screen turns black as soon as I put it into hibernate).

Event viewer gives me these details:

Critical 13/03/2011 12:02:50 source:Kernel-Power eventID:41 task category63)

Details:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-03-13T11:02:50.378013800Z" />
<EventRecordID>30984</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Michel-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">159</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x3</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffffa8003bfd060</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0xfffff80000b9c518</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xfffffa800ba99010</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">true</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">129444672912221540</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Any ideas how to fix this? I really love that you unlocked all options in Bios, so it would be quite a bummer if I had to roll back to Dell's A10.

kind regards,
T.

ps it's a 520m cpu with 5870 gpu & 4g ram.

Have you tried to go back to the original A10 BIOS and see if this fixes the issue ?

If the issue persists with the original A10 BIOS, you should take a look at your Windows installation. My Win7 works perfectly with Hibernate and the modded A10 BIOS.

// XereX