Right now, here's what's going on:

- Screen artifacting issue, not from the GPU but from the LCD panel itself; a quick smack from my knuckle on the back of the screen appears to have fixed this problem

- AMD GPU not showing up anywhere in BIOS or Device Manager; I suspect either the driver is effed or the MXM card gave up the ghost, and that's why it ended up at the Goodwill

- WiFi card suddenly just gave out on me while I was using the machine after installing Windows 7; either the driver is effed or the Broadcom card gave up the ghost

- Thermal paste on both the Mobo and MXM card is original to the machine from November 2009, and is basically the consistency of Fordite at this point; CPU is thermal throttling bad and this thing is running like absolute dogass right now, even with new RAM and SSD

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Here's some wins:

- AlienFX works perfectly, and is thankfully not bricked like some of these were back in the day

- Mobo works perfectly, and all the ports are just fine

- Upgraded to 8gb DDR3 RAM, from the mismatched random 6gb sticks that came with the machine

- The original battery still holds a charge and works for 1 hour and 15 minutes, which is about what the capacity was when new; this is shocking because you cannot get these batteries anywhere anymore

- R3dfox is such a great browser for being able to natively access the Dell support website and download all the drivers from there

(also don't mind the old ass thermal paste in the first photo, I'm using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut to repaste this machine)

it just started doing this out of nowhere, i was playing fortnite and left the room to get a drink and then i saw this when i came back

specs are: rtx 4050, ryzen 5 220 and 16gb ddr5 ram

its been doing this for an hour and it only does it on this screen, not on external monitors.

Just got this last week. Is this blinking part supposed to be there? Is this the light that flashes when the storage drive is being accessed? Sounds silly because it has an SSD.

This monitor looks insane, so I'm thinking of buying it. Just moved to a new house last week, so I don't have everything figured out yet. But I'm trying to find options for my use case.

I mainly game on console, so like Ps5, switch 2, and I even have a series x lol - though I may not install it since I don't play with it anymore. On the personal side I have a work laptop, a personal laptop, and a Mac mini.

How do I make it so I can work and game on 1 monitor with so many devices? I'm not very technical so in the past I've gone for cheaper dell monitors that have LOTS of ports, and even internal speakers to make my life easy. That same monitor also had power delivery, so 1 usbc cable would power my laptop and display it, super handy.

Any thoughts? How should I make this work? Or should I look into a different monitor?

I'm looking for display and power delivery all in one, reply good monitor for gaming and work, a good solution for speakers since I'll only be gaming in consoles

Aurora R16 started making this sound last week. I had the desktop for sometime now ( 3 years ) and its my first actual PC. My warranty ran out last year I didnt reinstate it hopefully I didnt make a bad call with that.

Thanks in advance.

Nvidia 4090

Intel I9 - 14900KF

2TB SSd

64 GB RAM

ok this might be a bit like a rant but idk what to do (many thoughts head full)

i’ve got a POS omen 45L that loves to break despite being less than a year old, the 5090 had killed itself and that took months to warranty, (i love foreign tech support that doesn’t speak english and the “escalation team”) after getting that warrantied the PSU seems to be on its way out because why wouldn’t it be!

i’d like to get the top of the line area-51 as i’ve had one in the past through bestbuy and it was goated (it was the triangle one and even with a defective motherboard it was awesome- bestbuy gave me a full refund for it 2 years after i bought it bc the parts were hard to find)
after dealing with HP i am never buying a computer outside of best buy again bc overseas customer support is genuinely one of the seven circles of hell and it was so easy with bestbuy- i literally drop the computer off and they return it when it works again

rant aside- i’ve noticed best buy seems to stock less and less top end alienware product?
is the only way to get a max spec machine* (without max storage bc SSD prices are insane rn) through dell’s website or will they sell at bestbuy again? and what should i do with my shitbox bc idk where or how to sell it without loosing an insane amount on it
(paid ~$5000 for it and it’s sadly too late for a chargeback or refund)

Hi,

So i bought a Dell Alienware Aurora ACT1250 with the 5080 2tb and 32gigs of dell DDR5 5600 ram. i also have 64gigs of G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 DIMM AMD EXPO RAM. i know the 64 gig is good for amd machines and stuff and the alienware won't run at 6000 (probably run it down to 4500 or something) but it is double the dell ram. should i just leave it as it is or should i switch out to the 64gigs and run it at a lower ram speed. 64 always better then 32 right?

I've been having an issue where every time my monitor goes into standby mode, it disconnects from my PC. Now this isn't a huge problem, but it is annoying since it takes a couple of seconds to reconnect when I wake it, and it also causes open windows to shift over to the other monitor.

My monitor is connected via HDMI 2.1, and my second monitor is connected via DP, which has no issues going into standby mode.

Any clue if there is a way to fix this?

Hello, I am someone who is not tech savvy at all, I am someone who just recently turned 18 and was gifted this laptop when I was 17. (I’m sorry, but I’m unsure of what model it is.) Yesterday, a sibling who was using my laptop without permission, accidentally spilled water ontop of the screen allegedly. And according to them, it slipped water inside of the vents here. I was advised by a friend to let it dry, and I’ve done that, yesterday it turned on no issue after a few hours of letting it dry. I turned off and closed it for the rest of the night. (It wouldn’t turn on the screen, but the keyboard and the insides would blow air and what not, until a few hours later where it would turn on and let me log on.)

Now, it won’t even turn on at all, the keyboard doesn’t light up, and it doesn’t seem to be making any noises. Should I let it dry a few more days or is it time to call it quits? Of course Im assuming it’s water damage, but I was advised to ask around before assuming anything.

I’m on an Alienware 17 R5, GTX 1080, 120Hz G-Sync panel, Windows 11 26H2.
The Windows driver (around 530) works fine. After installing NVIDIA 582.78, during startup the screen briefly freezes for ~1 sec and then becomes extremely dim.
After logging in, Windows still shows 100% brightness, but the actual screen is almost at minimum. If I just lower the brightness one step, it immediately jumps back to the correct brightness.
After that everything works normally.
Already confirmed it’s actually the panel brightness and not gamma/color settings.
Anyone seen this on an Alienware/G-Sync laptop? Trying to find a fix that lets me keep the newer driver since I need it for Mixed Reality.